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Sombrero lids’ and children’s pots. An Early Bronze Age shaft grave from Tell Shiyukh Tahtani
2006
Tell 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 o…
65. Tell Shiyukh Tahtani
2016
This volume presents the long history of Syria through a jouney of the most important and recently-excavated archaeological sites. The sites cover over 1.8 million years and all regions in Syria; 110 academics have contributed information on 103 excavations for this volume. Based on these contributions the volume offers a detailed summary of the history of Syria, a history as important as any in terms of the development of human society. It is hoped that this knowledge will offer not only an increased understanding of the country but also act as a deterrent to the destruction of Syrian cultural heritage and facilitate the protection of Syrian sites.
Tell Shiyukh Tahtani, Syria Report of the 2006-09 Seasons
2012
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…
The workers' strike of 1963 at Tell Chuera: Persistence of colonial practices in Near Eastern archaeology?
2022
This case study appears in: Mays C, Laborie L, Griset P (eds) (2022) Inventing a shared science diplomacy for Europe: Interdisciplinary case studies to think with history. A team of archaeologists from Berlin under the direction of Prof. Anton Moortgat conducted, starting from 1958, excavations at the important ancient urban site of Tell Chuera in northeast Syria. The heterogeneous composition of the Syrian workforce contributed to frequent quarrels and conflicts. In October 1963, one of these conflicts escalated into a 5-day strike, during which the workers also demanded higher wages. After the involvement of local police by the archaeologists, the strike was ended with the threat of bruta…
La guerre en Syrie dans la presse en ligne : quelle expressivité dans les commentaires publics?
2018
A war is defined as a conflict between two or more countries, states, social groups, individuals, with or without an armed struggle. Currently the Western media, including online press, are very interested in the Syrian war. The Syrian civil war broke out in the context of the Arab Spring, starting with mostly peaceful demonstrations in favour of democracy and against the Baathist regime led by president Bashar al-Assad. It quickly turned into an armed rebellion that demanded the intervention of some Western countries, thus provoking much discussion. In this paper we try to understand how the phenomenon of war can intervene in the choice of identity disclosure of internet users. It should b…
Słowo, które staje się obrazem, w tradycji chrześcijan syryjskich
2017
Artykuł podejmuje problematykę sztuki figuratywnej w teologicznej przestrzeni tradycji Kościołów syryjskich. Chociaż wspólnoty te w początkowym stadium rozwoju stanowiły integralną część Cesarstwa Wschodniorzymskiego, to jednak wypracowały zupełnie inny model obrazowania, którym nie są ikony czy też inne formy malarskie. Głównym sposobem malowania teologii było dla Syryjczyków słowo. Taki stan rzeczy nie wynikał bezpośrednio z odziedziczonego po judaizmie zakazu wyobrażeń sacrum czy jakiegoś wewnętrznego ikonoklazmu, ale z mentalności i wrażliwości ludów Bliskiego Wschodu. Autor, odwołując się do trzech pisarzy syryjskich – Efrema, Afrahata i Jakuba z Sarug – prezentuje kilka przykładów tek…
Adwent w liturgiach Kościołów syryjskich ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem tradycji zachodnio-syryjskiej
2022
We wszystkich tradycjach liturgicznych świata chrześcijańskiego Boże Narodzenie poprzedzone jest okresem przygotowania. Z teologicznego punktu widzenia ten okres, Adwent, posiada podwójny wymiar: eschatologiczny oraz nawiązujący do tajemnicy Wcielenia Jezusa Chrystusa. W tradycjach Kościołów syryjskich kolejne niedziele przygotowania do Bożego Narodzenia koncentrują się na przekazanych w Ewangeliach tzw. „zwiastowaniach” (syr.: subārā). Niniejszy artykuł stanowi próbę zarysu idei teologicznych obecnych w euchologii adwentowej Kościołów syryjskich.
Early Syrian Bottles
2014
Near Eastern archaeologists are accustomed today to labelling as “Syrian bottles” various kinds of oil/perfume fasks that enjoyed a wide popularity in Syria during the 3rd millennium. Owing to the volatile nature of their contents and the lack of archeometric analysis it has not been possible so far to ascertain whether these vessels were scent or unguent vases. Whatever the case, since they have been found far afeld from the core region of production it is clear that they were a luxury item of long-distance trade and are thus today – if possible misattributions are discarded – a valuable indicator of exchange networks and for establishing synchronisms among distant areas of the ancient Nea…
Tell Shiyukh Tahtani. New light on the Bronze Age sequence
2014
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…
Plain and luxury wares of the third millennium BC in the Carchemish region: two case-studies from Tell Shiyukh Tahtani
2007
In 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.