"Die Glyptik der mittelassyrischen Zeit aus Dūr-Katlimmu"

During the reigns of the Middle-Assyrian kings Shalmaneser I (1263-1234 BC) and Tukulti-Ninurta I (1233-1197 BC) the city of Dur-Katlimmu, that is modern Tell Sheikh Hamad on the Habur in Syria (35° 37’’ N, 40° 45’’ E), served as a supra regional center/capital headed by a grand vizier administrating and controlling the western part of the empire. We owe this knowledge from an archive of 666 registered...

PUBLISHED 2022. Please also visit the publication's webpage.

The ancient city, one of the most important and oldest in Mesopotamia, was the last great capital of the Assyrian empire. Dominating the site is the high mound...

PUBLISHED 2019. Please visit the publication's webpage.

Located along the River Euphrates, in modern-day Syria, el-Qitar was a mountain fortress of the Middle Bronze Age. Excavations, fully analysed in this volume for the first time, revealed extensive...

Chagar Bazar is a cluster of mounds with human occupations from the Bronze Age but with a rich Neolithic sequence from the Halaf period. The settlement is a long-duration site located in Syria on the wadi Dara, a tributary of the Khabour River, c. 35 km from Hassake. It is surrounded to the north by the Taurus, to the southwest by the Djebel Abd al-Aziz, and to the southeast by the...

PUBLISHED 2011. Please visit the publication's webpage.

Tell Beydar (ancient Nabada) is located in the Upper Syrian Jezireh. Its main occupation dates back to the Early Dynastic/Early Jezireh IIIb period during which...

This publication project, directed by Dr. Anna Leone, will produce the digitalisation of the archive and the final publication of archaeological excavations conducted at Dibsi Faraj (Syria), a Late Roman, Byzantine and early Islamic site on the Euphrates, between 1972 and 1974 by the late Richard Harper between 1972–74. Results of the excavation have only been partially published in a few...

The grant is intended to enable the final publication of the Neolithic sites of Tell Magzalia, Tell Sotto and Kültepe (Iraq) which will be in the form of a co-edited book by Nikolaï O. Bader, Olivier Aurenche and the grantee, Marie Le Mière, entitled “Ancient Farmers of the Sinjar Plain”.  These three sites are located in Northern Iraq at the foot of the Djebel Sinjar, near the modern...

Tell Beydar is a site of ca. 22 ha size located near the right bank of the Wadi Uwaij, one of the tributaries of the Khabur river, ca. 30 km north of the provincial capital Hassake in a region defined commonly defined as the Syrian Jazira. With a long history of occupation, it is particularly known from...

This grant will support the digitalisation of the archive and the final publication of archaeological excavations conducted at Dibsi Faraj (Syria), a Late Roman, Byzantine and early Islamic site on the Euphrates, between 1972 and 1974 by the late Richard Harper between 1972–74. Results of the excavation have only been partially published in a few papers during the...

PUBLISHED 2021. Please visit the publication's website.

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...

Excavations at Umm el-Marra (ancient Tuba?) in the Jabbul plain east of Aleppo (36° 08' North, 37°41' East), conducted by the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Amsterdam 1994-2010, have provided important information on the flourishing urban civilization of Early Bronze Age (ca. 3000-2000 BC) western Syria. A complex of ten monumental elite tombs on the site acropolis, together with the sacrificial installations of buried equids and human infants, supplies a unique and sizeable set of data on elite ideologies and elite mortuary rituals, including ancestor veneration and...

The grant will support the final publication of the 3rd millennium pottery discovered at Terqa while the French expedition directed by Prof. O. Rouault was excavating the site in the seasons 1987-2009. Terqa (modern-day Tell Ashara) is a medium tell of 8 ha located in the Lower Middle Euphrates region, on the right bank of the river. The archaeological research carried out revealed important levels of occupation dated to the 2nd and to the 3rd millennia B.C. Nevertheless, Terqa is best known for its 2nd millennium B.C. levels. The Royal Archive of Mari provides us with very interesting...