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The excavations at tell el-‘Abd
No full textThis volume (marru 5/2) is dedicated to the small finds from Tell el-ʻAbd and to the results of environmental studies (archaeobotany, archaeozoology and anthracology); it continues the final publication of the excavation, which began in 2014 with the presentation of the 3rd-millennium ceramics (AVO 16/2). In that volume, the author, Paola Sconzo, introduced the tell as well as the history and the methodology of its excavation. At present, that is, before the final review of the architecture and the stratigraphy, her statements are still fully valid, and have therefore in the main been inserted under 1.1 The excavations at Tell el-ʻAbd
Sombrero lids’ and children’s pots. An Early Bronze Age shaft grave from Tell Shiyukh Tahtani
No full textTell Shiyukh Tahtani is one of the ancient mounds in the upper Syrian Euphrates Valley, which has been recently investigated by a team of the University of Palermo as part of the Tishreen Dam Salvage project1. Apart from various levels of occupation, ranging from the early third millennium B.C. to classical and Islamic times, these excavations have brought to light a fairly large amount of graves (about 90), which, beside providing many interesting finds, allow us to undertake a detailed study of Bronze Age burial practices at the site and in northern Syria as a whole.
In dedicating the present paper to Uwe Finkbeiner, who has, as an excavator, made a great contribution to the archaeology of the middle Euphrates region, I will examine the evidence (so far unique) from one of the burials uncovered at Shiyukh Tahtani during summer 2005
Plain and luxury wares of the third millennium BC in the Carchemish region: two case-studies from Tell Shiyukh Tahtani
No full textIn the last decades the large number of salvage excavations undertaken in north Syria and southeastern Anatolia has generated much interest regarding the role that the culture of the Big
Bend of the Euphrates River played during the 3rd millennium BC. the aim of the present paper is to examine some particular pottery assemblages of the second half of the 3rd millennium which can be relevant for a discussion about a putative Carchemish region in the Early Bronze Age
Tell el-'Abd II. Pottery and Potmarks at an Early Urban Settlement of the Middle Euphrates River Valley, Syria. Final Reports of the Syrian-German excavations at Tel el-’Abd
No full textThe monograph investigates the breakdown of the Uruk world-system towards the end of the 4th millennium BCE, and the roots of secondary state formation in the Middle Euphrates region through the analysis of continuity and change in the Early Bronze ceramic material from the site of Tell el-‘Abd (Tabqa Dam, Syria). This analysis fills a chronological gap for the early third millennium, a period poorly known in the district downstream from Carchemish. It further includes the study of over 1300 potter’s marks, thus offering new insight into the intra- and inter-site organization of pottery production and into a complex and variegated system of visual communication active at a regional level before the use and diffusion of writing in Syria
Bronze Age pottery from the Carchemish region at the British Museum. The Woolley-Lawrence collection. Report
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Leonard Woolley, Lawrence d’Arabie et les fouilles de Karkémish
No full textessay on the excavations of Karkemis
Uova di struzzo dipinte da Mozia
No full textAnalisi e studio di alcuni frammenti di uova di struzzo conservate al Museo di MotyaAnalysis and study of some fragments of ostrich eggs-shell preserved at the Motya Museu
Nuovi dati dalla necropoli arcaica di Mozia (campagne 2013-2017)
Get PDFÈ passato oltre un secolo da quando Joseph Whitaker, pioniere dell’archeologia fenicia in Sicilia, dava inizio alle prime indagini nell’area della cosiddetta ‘necropoli arcaica’ sull’isola
di Mozia/San Pantaleo. Negli anni a venire varie altre imprese archeologiche si sono ivi succedute portando alla luce un totale di circa 350 sepolture (soprattutto cremazioni secondarie) e facendo di quest’area cimiteriale uno dei migliori ritrovamenti per lo studio della cultura funeraria fenicia in Sicilia e nel Mediterraneo centrale. Gli scavi condotti nell’ultimo quinquennio dalla Missione dell’Università di Palermo offrono interessanti dati ricavati da un gruppo di oltre 100 nuove sepolture che coprono un arco cronologico che va dalla fondazione
della colonia fenicia fino al momento in cui l’isola venne fortificata (fine VIII-VI secolo a.C.). L’analisi stratigrafica e crono-tipologica dei corredi, integrata da approfonditi studi di tipo paleo-antropologico e paleo-botanico, hanno permesso di riconoscere l’esistenza di una ritualità e performance funeraria complessa e variegata, nonché di una grande fluidità del
rapporto con la morte. Tale variabilità trova espressione nella scelta del rito (cremazione versus inumazione), dello spazio funerario e/o della tipologia tombale, come pure nella disposizione e
nella scelta dei corredi. In tale scenario il rituale dell’inumazione, prima quasi sconosciuto o non riconosciuto – a parte un gruppo di sarcofagi rinvenuti da Whitaker, e la scoperta di un settore della
necropoli dedicato quasi esclusivamente alle deposizioni infantili giocano un ruolo di primo piano. L’area funeraria sembra inoltre essere caratterizzata, – almeno in alcune fasi, da una marcata visibilità (presenza di cippi e segnacoli) come pure da tracce di un’assidua frequentazione da parte della comunità dei vivi.Ha transcurrido más de un siglo desde que, Joseph Whitaker, pionero de la arqueología fenicia en Sicilia, dió el impulso a las primeras investigaciones de la llamada “necrópolis arcaica” de la isla de Mozia/San Pantaleo. En los años siguientes otras investigaciones arqueológicas se han sucedido llevando a la luz aproximadamente un total de 350 sepulturas (sobretodo de cremaciones segundarias) cuyos hallazgos pueden considerarse un paradigma para el estudio de la cultura funeraria fenicia tanto en Sicilia como en el Mediterráneo central.
Las excavaciones llevadas a cabo en los últimos cinco años de parte de la Misión de la Università degli Studi di Palermo proporcionan unos importantes datos procedentes de un grupo
de más de 100 nuevas sepulturas que abarcan una cronología correspondiente a un arco temporal entre la fundación de la colonia fenicia y la realización de las fortificaciones, es decir entra el final del siglo VIII y el siglo VI a.C. El análisis estratigráfico y crono-tipológico de los ajuares se integran a unos profundizados estudios de tipo paleo-antropológicos e paleo-botánicos han permitido reconocer la existencia de una ritualidad y unas prácticas funerarias complejas e articuladas junto a una
grande fluidez en la relación con la muerte. Esta variabilidad se expresa tanto en la elección de un ritual (cremación vs inhumación), del espacio funerario y/o de la tipología tumbal como de
la composición e selección de los ajuares. Debido a estas premisas, el ritual de inhumación, anteriormente casi desconocido o no reconocido en las interpretaciones, junto la presencia de un sector de la necrópolis dedicado casi exclusivamente a las deposiciones infantiles juegan un papel fundamental. La área funeraria aparece caracterizada – al menos en algunas fases – tanto por una
marcada visibilidad (cipos y “segnacula” funerarios) como por testigos de una asidua frecuentación por parte de la comunidad de los vivos
The Archaic Cemetery at Motya. A case-study for tracing early colonial Phoenician culture and mortuary traditions in the West Mediterranean
No full textThe burial ground, roughly dating from the late 8th cent. BC onwards, is characterised in its earliest major phase by the almost exclusive practice of cremation, a rite that was introduced and largely attested in the Levant during the Iron Age1 .
The same rite was inherited from the Phoenician homeland and became widespread in the western colonial world, where it eventually survived until the Hellenistic period. The purpose of the present paper is to re-examine briefly the archaeological evidence so far retrieved in the early island cemetery, stressing its main features and reviewing some of the current scholarly views and interpretations
Collapse or Continuity ? The case of the EB-MB Transition at Tell Shiyukh Tahtani
No full textLa fin du Troisième Millénaire est, dans l'histoire du Proche-Orient ancien, une période sujette à controverses car, selon les régions, elle connaît soit une désintégration et un effondrement culturels, soit une continuité et un développement urbains. Le tableau général de la situation reste confus, particulièrement en Syrie où il a fait l'objet d'un grand nombre de théories et de modèles d'interprétation. La période de "transition" entre le Bronze Ancien et le Bronze Moyen est ici considérée du point de vue d'un petit site rural de la vallée de l'Euphrate en Syrie du Nord, Tell Shiyukh Tahtani. Les fouilles récentes réalisées par l'Université de Palerme y ont mis au jour une longue séquence d'occupation de l'Age du Bronze qui sera présentée dans cet article de manière à mettre en lumière l'évolution du site et les ruptures éventuelles de son développement pendant le Troisième et le Second Millénaires av. J.-C. De fait, un certain nombre de données archéologiques (dans la stratigraphie, l'architecture, les pratiques funéraires, la céramique etc.) semblent indiquer un hiatus dans V occupation du site à la fin de l'Âge du Bronze Ancien, ainsi qu'un changement culturel dans la période qui lui succède.Sconzo Paola. Collapse or Continuity ? The case of the EB-MB Transition at Tell Shiyukh Tahtani. In: Sociétés humaines et changement climatique à la fin du troisième millénaire: une crise a-t-elle eu lieu en Haute Mésopotamie? Actes du Colloque de Lyon (5-8 décembre 2005) Istanbul : Institut Français d'Études Anatoliennes-Georges Dumézil, 2007. pp. 267-310. (Varia Anatolica, 19
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