# The Citadel of Dur-Katlimmu in Middle and Neo-Assyrian Times **PUBLISHED 2021**. *Please visit the **[publication's website](/publications/citadel-dur-katlimmu-middle-and-neo-assyrian-times)**.* Tell Skeikh Hamad, on the left bank of the Habur in Syria, has been identified with the Assyrian city of Dur-Katlimmu, on account of the Middle Assyrian (13th cent. BC) archive excavated in “Building P” on the western slope of the citadel (Tell) during the initial seasons of 1978 through 1984. The stratigraphy and the 668 registered cuneiform texts allow the reconstruction of the event history of the region and of the biography of the building that is considered to have been an annex of the Middle Assyrian Palace. Founded by king Adad-nirari I at the beginning of the 13th cent. BC., the city probably served him and his successors Shalmaneser I. and Tukulti Ninurta I. as the strategic take off point for the conquest of the Mittani Empire, thus becoming the second important city of the Middle Assyrian State/Empire by furnishing the seat of a Great Vizier titled “King of Hanigalbat” and constituting the administrative center of the western part of the Empire. The grant will support the finish of the final report on “Die Zitadelle von Dur-Katlimmu in mittel-und neuassyrischer Zeit” to be published as Vol. 12 of the series **“Berichte der Ausgrabung Tell Sheikh Hamad / Dur-Katlimmu (BATSH)”**. This publication project will be directed by **[Dr. Hartmut Kühne](/people/hartmut-k%C3%BChne)**. [](static.projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/styles/os_files_xxlarge/public/whitelevy/files/fig-05_t._schech_hamad.jpg?m=1508343001&itok=xdDixwnt) ![Tell Schech Hamad 1](/sites/g/files/omnuum3196/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/whitelevy/files/fig-05_t._schech_hamad.jpg?itok=jpP22R-l) Tell Schech Hamad[ ![Tell Schech Hamad Aerial](/sites/g/files/omnuum3196/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/whitelevy/files/fig-06_l90-183.jpg?itok=AK0wepjP) ](static.projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/styles/os_files_xxlarge/public/whitelevy/files/fig-06_l90-183.jpg?m=1508343094&itok=Lx1TFnca)Tell Schech Hamad Aerial[ ![Tell Schech Hamad_sh82-ballonaufnahme.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum3196/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/whitelevy/files/fig-01_sh82-ballonaufnahme.jpg?itok=VRea9mVQ) ](static.projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/styles/os_files_xxlarge/public/whitelevy/files/fig-01_sh82-ballonaufnahme.jpg?m=1508343528&itok=8uKnyNoA)Tell Schech Hamad sh82 balloon shot[ ![Tell Schech Hamad_sh82_g292.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum3196/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/whitelevy/files/fig-02_sh82_g292.jpg?itok=0gI-eG2s) ](static.projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/styles/os_files_xxlarge/public/whitelevy/files/fig-02_sh82_g292.jpg?m=1508343581&itok=2StWEYi9)Tell Schech Hamad\_sh82\_g292[ ![Tell Schech Hamad_mittelass_tontafeln.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum3196/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/whitelevy/files/fig-03_mittelass_tontafeln.jpg?itok=inxpm__I) ](static.projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/styles/os_files_xxlarge/public/whitelevy/files/fig-03_mittelass_tontafeln.jpg?m=1508343454&itok=8exTMkOF)Tell Schech Hamad Middle-Assyrian clay tablets[ ![Tell Schech Hamad_topographic_map_and_areas_of_operations](/sites/g/files/omnuum3196/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/whitelevy/files/fig-07_topographic_map_and_areas_of_operations.jpg?itok=sQoN7wpO) ](static.projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/styles/os_files_xxlarge/public/whitelevy/files/fig-07_topographic_map_and_areas_of_operations.jpg?m=1508343173&itok=VazPQasP)Tell Schech Hamad topographic map and areas of operations See also:- [ 2016 Sponsored Projects ](/grants-year/2016) - [ Mesopotamia ](/sponsored-projects-area/mesopotamia)