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This fourth report on the new excavations at Chagar Bazar, which were resumed in 1999, contains the publication of the ordinary graves excavated by the teams of the Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums of Syria and of the University of Liege until 2011. The Corpus is composed of 164 graves numbers and the detailed archaeological description of those graves is provided in the different chapters of the volume. Most of the data collected in the ordinary graves of Chagar Bazar were not attested in the other sites of the Syrian Jezireh and the volume is a major contribution to the perception of the funerary customs in the region, or indeed in all of Mesopotamia. The furnishing of the graves is studied in the four subsequent volumes.