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Gioacchino Falsone
Le campagne di scavo presso il sito di Tell Shiyuk Tahtani. Syria, regione di Aleppo.
Phoenician and Punic Sites in Sicily
A survey of Phoenician and Punic archaeological sites and monuments in Sicily. An update of recent excavations and finds.
Tell Shiyukh Tahtani. New light on the Bronze Age sequence
This report briefly describes the latest results of the Italian rescue excavations at Shiyukh Tahtani on the Upper Syrian Euphrates. Fieldwork continued on the eastern slope of the mound, aiming to further investigate the Bronze Age levels. A main operation, halfway down the slope, focused upon the earliest MB I layers, where a group of burials was unearthed, mostly consisting of adult interments in oval pits and child pot burials. A most striking finding was the ‘Spinstress tomb’. At the foot of the slope, the exploration of a mud-brick compound, dating back to the early third millennium BC, continued. Here further remarkable evidence of massive domestic architecture in a fine Mesopotamian…
George Smith. Un assiriologo inglese a Palermo.
Mozia. La storia degli scavi
Le aree industriali
Sul culto dei betili a Mozia. A proposito di un cono sacro
The ´champagne-cup` period at Carchemish. A review of the Early Bronze Age levels on the Acropolis Mound and the problem of the Inner Town.
The pioneer excavations conducted by the British Museum expedition at the famous site of Carchemish in the 1910’s brought to light a large number of buildings, sculptures and inscriptions which provide an outline of the urban layout of the Iron Age city and its monuments. While many scholars have often attempted to re-examine the epigraphic material as well as the style and chronology of the major works of this period in order to set them in a proper historical context, much less attention has been paid to the earlier levels mainly uncovered on the Acropolis mound, ranging from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age. This paper discusses the archaeological evidence available and attempted to recon…
NEW ANTHROPOLOGICAL DATA FROM THE ARCHAIC CEMETERY AT MOTYA
The archaic necropolis at Motya has been long recognized as a site of great interest for the study of Phoenician burial customs in the West. Since its discovery by Joseph Whitaker more than a century ago, over 300 burials have been brought to light - mainly dating to the late 8th-7th century BC. Burials are characterized by jars used as urns and box-shaped stone cists containing the ashes and burnt bones of the dead. These are indeed secondary cremations, a very common funerary ritual of the Iron Age in the Phoenician homeland and in the colonies overseas. Despite the relevant bearing of this cemetery on historical and cultural grounds, anthropological analysis unfortunately has been mostly…
Nuove Ricerche a Castellazzo di Poggioreale. Campagne 2008-2009.
Resoconto preliminare di due campagne di scavo nel sito indigeno di Monte Castellazzo, Valle del Belice, Sicilia. Viene descritto un muraglione con scalinata di età medievale costruito lungo il costone 540. Sono anche descritte le varie fasi di vita di una capanna protostorica di VIII-VII secolo a.C. e di un edificio a pianta rettangolare di età arcaica fine VII-VI sec. a.C. Sono infine illustrati gli interessantissimi reperti di un deposito di fondazione, comprendenti ceramica "elima" e greca di importazione, pesi da telaio, metalli allo stato grezzo e altri fittili di notevole qualità.
NEW ANTHROPOLOGICAL DATA FROM THE ARCHAIC NECROPOLIS AT MOTYA (2013 EXCAVATION SEASON)
In this paper we present the most recent anthropological study on bones of the archaic tombs of Motya (Sicily, Italy), where a large necropolis has been brought to light since the first excavations of Joseph Whitaker. The newly acquired data suggest that this portion of the Motya archaic cemetery was not exclusively devoted to the incineration of particular classes of age but the urns and cists could contain multiple burials of very different ages. .
Ricordo di Vincenzo Tusa (1921-2009)
Viene illustrata la figura del Soprintendente e archeologo Vincenzo Tusa come uomo e come studioso: le sue ricerche e scavi nella Siclia occidentale (Solunto, Selinunte, Mozia, Segesta, etc.), le sue molteplici attività a difesa dei Beni culturali, e le sue opere e scritti scientifici.
Il vaso di Bocchoris da Marsala: opera egizia o fenicia ?
Tell Shiyukh Tahtani, Syria Report of the 2006-09 Seasons
The Italian excavations at Shiyukh Tahtani have recently resumed, revealing a long occupation sequence on the mound’s eastern slope (Area CD). In Trench D23, on the summit, an Iron Age level II building contained a rich array of pottery, sheep knuckle bones, clay ‘bobbins’ and an unstratified Egyptian scarab of Menkheperre. An earlier massive building (LBA ?) was also excavated below the Iron Age II occupation. Halfway down the slope the lower level of a large burnt complex of Middle Bronze I date contained rich finds and various burials characterized by peculiar rituals. Finally, in a deep trench down below the slope, EB I-II remains included niched mud-brick architecture of fine Mesopo…
Human Remains and Funerary Rites in the Phoenician Necropolis of Motya (Sicily)
Santa Margherita Belice
Si descrivono le scoperte archeologiche fatte in passato nel territorio del Comune di Santa Margherita Belice (prov. AG), risalenti ad età preistorica e protostorica.
Tell Shiyukh Tahtani on the Euphrates. Highlights of the last excavation seasons
In recent years (2006-09) the University of Palermo Euphrates expedition has continued rescue excavations at Tell Shiyukh Tahtani (the “Lower Hill of Sheikhs”) as part of the Tishreen Dam Salvage Project. Located on the left bank of the River south of Jerablus, in the land that once was the Carchemish district, this small mound has revealed a long occupation sequence from around 3.000 B.C. to Byzantine and early Islamic times. During the last three seasons we mainly concentrated in the investigation of the eastern slope of the upper tell (Area CD), where a continuous Bronze Age occupation has been detected. Apart from the later levels (EB IV, Middle and Late Bronze Age), one of the main goa…
Benedikt Isserlin, archeologo e orientalista
Tell Shiyukh Tahtani, Nord Siria. Relazione sull'attività della Missione Eufrate nell'anno 2008.
Survey and excavations in the Middle Euphrates Valley, Syria. 2008 Season.