A history of Syria in one hundred sites / / edited by Youssef Kanjou and Akira Tsuneki.
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.
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Place / Publishing House: | Oxford : : Archaeopress,, [2016] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 451 pages) :; illustrations, maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction: The Significance of Syria in Human History
- Youssef Kanjou and Akira Tsuneki
- Preface
- Chapter 1
- Prehistory
- 1. El Kowm Oasis (Homs)
- Reto Jagher, Dorota Wojtczak and Jean-Marie Le Tensorer
- 2. Dederiyeh Cave (Aleppo)
- Takeru Akazawa
- Yoshihiro Nishiaki
- 3. Wadi Mushkuna Rockshelter (Damascus)
- Nicholas J. Conard
- 4. Baaz Rockshelter (Damascus)
- Nicholas J. Conard
- 5. Kaus Kozah Cave (Damascus)
- Nicholas J. Conard
- 6. Abu Hureyra (Raqqa)
- Andrew M. T. Moore
- 7. Qarassa (Sweida)
- Frank Braemer
- Juan J. Ibanez and Xavier Terradas
- 8. Mureybet (Raqqa)
- Marie-Claire Cauvin and Danielle Stordeur
- 9. Tell Qaramel (Aleppo)
- Youssef Kanjou
- 10. Jerf el-Ahmar (Aleppo)
- Danielle Stordeur and George Willcox
- 11. Dja'de el-Mughara (Aleppo)
- Eric Coqueugniot
- 12. Tell Halula (Aleppo)
- Miquel Molist
- 13. Tell Aswad (Damascus)
- Danielle Stordeur
- Rima Khawam
- 14. Tell el-Kerkh (Idlib)
- Akira Tsuneki
- 15. Tell Sabi Abyad (Raqqa)
- Peter M. M. G. Akkermans
- 16. Tell Seker al-Aheimar (Hassake)
- Yoshihiro Nishiaki
- 17. Shir (Hama)
- Karin Bartl
- 18. Tell Kosak Shamali (Aleppo)
- Yoshihiro Nishiaki
- 19. Tell el-'Abr (Aleppo)
- Yayoi Yamazaki
- Hamido Hammade
- 20. Chagar Bazar (Hassake)
- Walter Cruells and Anna Gómez Bach
- 21. Tell Zeidan (Raqqa)
- Anas Al Khabour
- 22. Tell Feres (Hassake)
- Régis Vallet
- Johnny Samuele Baldi
- 23. Tell Ziyadeh (Hassake)
- Frank Hole
- Chapter 2
- Ancient Syria (Bronze and Iron Ages)
- 24. Tell Beydar / Nabada / Nabatium (Hassake)
- Marc Lebeau
- Antoine Suleiman
- 25. Tell Banat (Aleppo)
- Thomas L. McClellan and Anne Porter
- 26. Tell Mozan/Urkesh (Hassake)
- Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
- 27. Tell Leilan (Hassake)
- Harvey Weiss.
- 28. Tell Sheikh Hamad/Dur-Katlimmu/Magdalu (Deir ez-Zor)
- Hartmut Kühne
- 29. Umm el-Marra (Aleppo)
- Glenn M. Schwartz
- 30. Tell Jerablus Tahtani (Aleppo)
- Edgar Peltenburg
- 31. Tell Al-Rawda (Hama)
- Corinne Castel
- Nazir Awad
- 32. Tell Munbāqa (Raqqa)
- Dittmar Machule
- 33. Tell el-Abd (Raqqa)
- Uwe Finkbeiner
- 34. Tell Ali al-Hajj, Rumeilah (Aleppo)
- Kazuya Shimogama
- 35. Mishrifeh / Qatna (Homs)
- Daniele Morandi Bonacossi
- 36. Mishirfeh/Qatna, Syrian Excavations (Homs)
- Michel Al-Maqdissi
- Massoud Badawi
- 37. Tell Mastuma (Idlib)
- Hidetoshi Tsumoto
- 38. Tell Sakka (Damascus)
- Ahmad Taraqji
- 39. Tell Iris (Lattakia)
- Antoine Suleiman
- Michel Al-Maqdissi
- 40. Tell Toueini (Lattakia)
- Michel Al-Maqdissi
- Massoud Badawi
- Eva Ishaq
- 41. Tell Sianu (Lattakia)
- Michel Al-Maqdissi
- 42. Tell Taban (Hassake)
- Hirotoshi Numoto
- 43. Tell Hammam el-Turkman (Raqqa)
- Diederik J.W. Meijer
- 44. Tell Selenkahiye (Aleppo)
- Diederik J.W. Meijer
- 45. Tell Mohammed Diyab (Hassake)
- Christophe Nicolle
- 46. Tell Tuqan (Idlib)
- Francesca Baffi
- 47. Khirbet Al-Umbashi, Khirbet Dabab and Hebariye (Sweida)
- Frank Braemer
- Ahmad Taraqji
- 48. Tell Masaikh and the Region around Terqa (Deir ez-Zor)
- Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault
- 49. Tell Ashara/Terqa (Deir ez-Zor)
- Olivier Rouault
- 50. Tell Bazi (Aleppo)
- Adelheid Otto and Berthold Einwag
- 51. Tell Afis (Idlib)
- Stefania Mazzoni
- 52. Tell Fekheriye (Hassake)
- Dominik Bonatz
- 53. Mari (Deir ez-Zor)
- Pascal Butterlin
- 54. Tell Nebi Mend (Homs)
- Peter Parr
- 55. Qala'at Halwanji (Aleppo)
- Jesper Eidem
- 56. Tell Ahmar/Til Barsib (Aleppo)
- Guy Bunnens
- 57. Chagar Bazar/Ashnakkum (Hassake)
- Önhan Tunca
- 58. Tell Humeida (Deir ez-Zor)
- Juan-Luis Montero Fenollós
- Yaroob al-Abdallah.
- 59. Tell Qabr Abu al-'Atiq (Deir ez-Zor)
- Juan-Luis Montero Fenollós
- Shaker Al-Shbib
- 60. Tulul el-Far, Tell Taouil and Tell el-Kharaze (Damascus)
- Sophie Cluzan
- Ahmad Taraqji
- 61. Tell Massin and Tell al-Nasriyah (Hama)
- Dominique Parayre
- Martin Sauvage
- 62. Tell Arbid (Hassake)
- Piotr Bieliński
- 63. Tell Halaf (Hassake)
- Lutz Martin
- 64. Halawa (Raqqa)
- Jan-Waalke Meyer
- Winfried Orthmann
- 65. Tell Shiyukh Tahtani (Aleppo)
- Gioacchino Falsone
- Paola Sconzo
- 66. Ras Shamra/Ugarit (Lattakia)
- Valérie Matoïan
- Khozama al-Bahloul
- 67. Tell Chuera (Raqqa)
- Jan-Waalke Meyer
- 68. Amrith/Marathos (Tartous)
- Michel Al-Maqdissi
- Eva Ishaq
- 69. Arslan Tash (Aleppo)
- Anas Al Khabour
- 70. Tell Meskene/Emar (Aleppo)
- Ferhan Sakal
- 71. Tell Barri/Kahat (al Hassake)
- Raffaella Pierobon Benoit
- 72. Tell Kazel/Sumur (Tartous)
- Leila Badre
- 73. Tell Qumluq (Aleppo)
- Youssef Kanjou
- Andrew Jamieson
- 74. The Cemetery of Abu Hamad (Raqqa)
- Jan-Waalke Meyer
- 75. The cemeteries of Wreide, Tawi and Shameseddin (Raqqa)
- Jan-Waalke Meyer
- Winfried Orthmann
- 76. Tell Ajaja (Hassake)
- Asa'd Mahmoud
- Hartmut Kühne
- 77. Tell Bderi (Hassake)
- Hartmut Kühne
- Chapter 3
- Syria in the Classic World
- (Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine)
- 78. Jebel Khalid, (Aleppo)
- Graeme Clarke
- Heather Jackson
- 79. Palmyra, 30 Years of Syro-German/Austrian Archaeological Research (Homs)
- Andreas Schmidt-Colinet
- Khaled al-As'ad and Waleed al-As'ad
- 80. Palmyra, Japanese Archaeological Research (Homs)
- Kiyohide Saito
- 81. Palmyrena. The Northern Hinterland of Palmyra (Homs)
- Jørgen Christian Meyer, Nils Anfinset and Torbjørn Preus Schou
- 82. Palmyra/Tadmor (Homs)
- Michal Gawlikowski
- 83. Cyrrhus/Nebi Houri (Aleppo)
- Jeanine Abdul Massih
- Shaker Al-Shbib.
- 84. Tell As-Sin (Deir ez-Zor)
- Shaker Al-Shbib
- Juan-Luis Montero Fenollós
- 85. Gindaros (Aleppo)
- Ammar Abdulrahman
- 86. El-Iss/Qinnasrin (Aleppo)
- Marie-Odile Rousset
- Youssef Kanjou
- 87. Resafa/Sergiopolis (Raqqa)
- Anas Al Khabour
- 88. Resafa/Sergiupolis /Rusafat Hisham (Raqqa)
- Dorothée Sack and Martin Gussone
- 89. Zenobia - Halabiya (Deir ez-Zor)
- Sylvie Blétry
- 90. Sergilla, Ruweiha and El Bâra (Idlib)
- Maamoun Abdulkarim
- Gérard Charpentier
- 91. Musaytbeh-Jableh (Lattakia)
- Massoud Badawi
- 92. Deir Qinnsrin-Jarabulus (Aleppo)
- Mohamad Fakhro
- 93. Tell el-Kasra (Deir ez-Zor)
- Yaroob al-Abdallah
- 94. Syriac Inscriptions of Syria
- Françoise Briquel Chatonnet
- 95. Sura (Raqqa)
- Ali Othman
- 96. Tell Shayzar (Hama)
- Matthias Grawehr
- Abdulsalam Albachkami
- Chapter 4
- Islamic Archaeology in Syria
- 97. The Citadel of Tell Shayzar (Hama)
- Cristina Tonghini
- 98. Qalaat Al Mudiq/Apamean Citadel (Hama)
- Shaker Al-Shbib
- Mathilde Gelin
- 99. Tell Tuneinir (Hassake)
- Michael Fuller and Neathery Fuller
- 100. Aleppo Castle (Aleppo)
- Assad Yusof
- Youssef Kanjou
- 101. Madinat el-Far/Hisn Maslama (Raqqa)
- Claus-Peter Haase
- 102. Kharab Sayyar (Raqqa)
- Jan-Waalke Meyer
- 103. Tell Damir (Raqqa)
- Anas Al Khabour
- Synthesis: Syrian Archaeology in the Past, Present and Future
- List of Figures
- 91. Musaytbeh-Jableh (Lattakia)
- Fig. 1 The site of Musaytbeh, Jableh.
- Fig. 2 Archaeological features in trench A.
- Fig. 3 A lead weight.
- Fig. 4 A bone needle.
- Fig. 5 A small glass flacon, Abbasid period.
- 92. Deir Qinnsrin-Jarabulus (Aleppo)
- Fig. 1 A general view of the site.
- Fig. 2 The remains of the Islamic structures.
- Fig. 3 The discovered parts of the monastery (from the southwest corner: the rectangular hall).
- Fig. 4 Attached sections.
- Fig. 5 Floor mosaic from the rectangular hall.
- Fig. 6 Rectangular hall and the attached sections
- Fig. 7 Reconstruction of the rectangular hall and the attached sections
- Fig. 8 Monastery of Qansreen in 2014.
- 93. Tell el-Kasra (Deir ez-Zor)
- Fig. 1 Tell el-Kisr excavations.
- Fig. 2 Mosaic floor
- Fig. 3 Mosaic detail.
- Fig. 4 Mosaic detail.
- 94. Syriac Inscriptions of Syria
- Fig. 1 Tell Matin
- Fig. 2 Nabgha
- Fig. 3 Basufan
- Fig. 4 Qalb Loze
- Fig. 5 Khirbet Hassan
- Fig. 6 Mar Musa
- 95. Sura (Raqqa)
- Fig. 1 The baths, general view from the west.
- Fig. 2 The Byzantine hypogeum.
- Fig. 3 A Justinian tower.
- Fig. 4 Western tower.
- Fig. 5 Various terracotta oil lamps.
- 96. Tell Shayzar (Hama)
- Fig. 1 Aerial view of the castle and tell Shayzar in 1935
- Fig. 2 Test trench with occupation level of the 12th century AD.
- Fig. 3 Handmade painted ware of the 12th century AD.
- 97. The Citadel of Tell Shayzar (Hama)
- Fig. 1 General map of the citadel showing the main buildings.
- Fig. 2 General view of the citadel from the north-east.
- Fig. 3 Building CF6 from the south-east (Period II).
- Fig. 4 Entrance complex, CA2: the glacis attributed to Nur al-Din (Period IV) and the tower built by Qalawun (Period V).
- Fig. 5 Complex CA1 (Periods IV-V) and the ditch from the east.
- 98. Qalaat Al Mudiq/Apamean Citadel (Hama)
- Fig.1 The plan of the citadel
- Fig. 2 The southeastern part of the Qal'at el Mudiq tell and the collapsed area of the medieval glacis
- Fig. 3. - Excavations in Sector A: mudbrick wall M4 and Hellenistic rampart M1
- Fig. 5 Tower 5 after restorations
- Fig. 4 Tower 5: foundations in the sounding outside the tower
- Fig. 6 Sector B after restorations
- 99. Tell Tuneinir (Hassake)
- (Photo Prof Michael Fuller, STLCC).
- Fig. 1 View of Area 1 excavation area at Tell Tuneinir and impounded floodwater, 2004.