A history of Syria in one hundred sites / edited by Youssef Kanjou and Akira Tsuneki.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kanjou, Youssef, editor.

Tsuneki, Akira, 1954- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology)--Syria.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 451 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Archaeopress, [2016]

Summary:

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.

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)

5. Kaus Kozah Cave (Damascus)

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)

17. Shir (Hama)

Karin Bartl

18. Tell Kosak Shamali (Aleppo)

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)

40. Tell Toueini (Lattakia)

Eva Ishaq

41. Tell Sianu (Lattakia)

42. Tell Taban (Hassake)

Hirotoshi Numoto

43. Tell Hammam el-Turkman (Raqqa)

Diederik J.W. Meijer

44. Tell Selenkahiye (Aleppo)

45. Tell Mohammed Diyab (Hassake)

Christophe Nicolle

46. Tell Tuqan (Idlib)

Francesca Baffi

47. Khirbet Al-Umbashi, Khirbet Dabab and Hebariye (Sweida)

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)

Shaker Al-Shbib

60. Tulul el-Far, Tell Taouil and Tell el-Kharaze (Damascus)

Sophie Cluzan

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)

68. Amrith/Marathos (Tartous)

69. Arslan Tash (Aleppo)

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)

Andrew Jamieson

74. The Cemetery of Abu Hamad (Raqqa)

75. The cemeteries of Wreide, Tawi and Shameseddin (Raqqa)

76. Tell Ajaja (Hassake)

Asa'd Mahmoud

77. Tell Bderi (Hassake)

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)

85. Gindaros (Aleppo)

Ammar Abdulrahman

86. El-Iss/Qinnasrin (Aleppo)

Marie-Odile Rousset

87. Resafa/Sergiopolis (Raqqa)

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)

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)

Mathilde Gelin

99. Tell Tuneinir (Hassake)

Michael Fuller and Neathery Fuller

100. Aleppo Castle (Aleppo)

Assad Yusof

101. Madinat el-Far/Hisn Maslama (Raqqa)

Claus-Peter Haase

102. Kharab Sayyar (Raqqa)

103. Tell Damir (Raqqa)

Synthesis: Syrian Archaeology in the Past, Present and Future

List of Figures

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.

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.

Fig. 1 Tell el-Kisr excavations.

Fig. 2 Mosaic floor

Fig. 3 Mosaic detail.

Fig. 4 Mosaic detail.

Fig. 1 Tell Matin

Fig. 2 Nabgha

Fig. 3 Basufan

Fig. 4 Qalb Loze

Fig. 5 Khirbet Hassan

Fig. 6 Mar Musa

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.

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.

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.

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

(Photo Prof Michael Fuller, STLCC).

Fig. 1 View of Area 1 excavation area at Tell Tuneinir and impounded floodwater, 2004.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781784913823

1784913820