Jerablus Tahtani
Jerablus Tahtani is located in Syria
Jerablus Tahtani
Shown within Syria
LocationSyria
Coordinates36°48′00″N 38°01′00″E / 36.80000°N 38.01667°E / 36.80000; 38.01667
Typesettlement
History
Founded3rd millennium BC
PeriodsBronze Age, Iron Age
Site notes
Excavation dates1992-1999
ArchaeologistsE. Peltenburg
ConditionRuined
OwnershipPublic
Public accessYes

Jerablus Tahtani (formerly Tell Alawiyeh) is a small tell on the right bank of the Euphrates River four kilometers south of Carchemish in present-day Syria.

Archaeology

The mound has an area of 1 hectare with a surrounding lower town covering about 12 hectares.[1] A fort, built on the ashes of a burnt village, stood on the mound. The defensive wall exceeded 12 meters in height, including the glacis. A number of monumental tombs were found.[2] One tomb (Tomb 302) contained a large number of "champagne vessels" and animal bones which were interpreted as evidence of mortuary feasting.[3]

The site was first noted by Leonard Woolley early the 1920s while he was excavating at nearby Carchemish.[4] It was excavated from 1992 to 2000 by the British as part of the Syrian government's Tishrin Dam rescue project. As of 2000 the site was still not underwater.[5][6][7][8][9] This project successively developed into the Land of Carchemish project.

History

The site was occupied from the late Uruk period through the middle 3rd Millennium BC. Then, after a hiatus, it was occupied from the Iron Age through the Islamic period. Specifically, there were 5 occupation periods:[10]

  • Period 1 - Late Chalcolithic
  • Period 2 - Early Bronze Age
  • Period 3 - Iron Age
  • Period 4 - Roman
  • Period 5 - Islamic

See also

References

  1. Ur, Jason A., "Cycles of Civilization in Northern Mesopotamia, 4400—2000 BC", Journal of Archaeological Research, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 387–431, 2010
  2. Peltenburg, Edgar, "Conflict and Exclusivity in Early Bronze Age Societies of the Middle Euphrates Valley", Journal of Near Eastern Studies, vol. 72, no. 2, 2013, pp. 233–52, 2013
  3. Calabrese, Agata Maria Catena, "The ancestor worship in the third millennium BCE", EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2020
  4. Woolley, C.L., "Carchemish II: The Town Defences", British Museum: London, 1921
  5. E. Peltenburg, Jerablus-Tahtani, American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 98, pp. 106-7, 1994
  6. E. Peltenburg, S. Campbell, P. Croft, D. Lunt, M. Murray & M. Watt, Jerablus-Tahtani, Syria, 1992-4: Preliminary Report, Levant, vol. 27, pp. 1-28, 1995
  7. E. Peltenburg, D. Bolger, S. Campbell, M. Murray and R. Tipping, Jerablus-Tahtani, Syria, 1995: Preliminary Report, Levant, vol. 28, pp. 1-25, 1996
  8. E. Peltenburg, Report on Jerablus Tahtani 1998, Levant, vol. 31, pp. 315-316, 1999
  9. Peltenburg, E. et al., "Jerablustahton, Syria, 1998-99: Preliminary Report", Levant, XXXII, pp. 53-76, 2000
  10. Ceren Kabukcu, "Early Agriculture in Northern Syria: Botanical Remains from Jerablus Tahtani", Masters Thesis, Trent University, May 2012

Further reading

  • E. Peltenburg, "Jerablus-Tahtani", American Journal of Archaeology 101, pp. 122-123, 1997
  • E. Peltenburg, "Tell Jerablus Tahtani, Syria, I. Mortuary Practices at an Early Bronze Age Fort on the Euphrates River", Oxford: Oxbow Books, Levant Supplementary Series 17, 2015 ISBN 9781785701436
  • Peltenburg, E., "Tell Jerablus Tahtani 1992-1996: A summary", In del Olmo Lete, G., and Montero Fenollos, J.-L. (eds.), Archaeology of the Upper Syrian Euphrates: The Tishrin Dam Area, Editorial Ausa, Barcelona, pp. 97-105, 1999
  • Peltenburg, E., "The living and the ancestors: Early Bronze Age mortuary practices at Jerablus Tahtani", In del Olmo Lete, G., and Montero Fenollos, J.-L. (eds.), Archaeology of the Upper Syrian Euphrates: The Tishrin Dam Area, Editorial Ausa, Barcelona, pp. 427-442, 1999
  • Edgar Peltenburg, "Diverse Settlement Pattern Changes in the Middle Euphrates Valley in the Later Third Millennium BC: The Contribution of Jerablus Tahtani", in Sociétés humaines, ed. Kuzucuoğlu and Marro, pp. 254–55, 2007
  • Sang, Li, "Burial practices of the third millennium BCE in the Middle Euphrates Region: an interpretation of funerary rituals", Unpublished PhD. Thesis, Tübingen, 2010
  • Andrew J. Shortland, "An Antimony Bead from Jerablus Tahtani", Journal of the Historical Metallurgy Society 36/1, pp. 1–5, 2002
  • Wilkinson, T. J., Peltenburg, E., McCarthy, A., Wilkinson, E., and Brown, M., "Archaeology in the land of Carchemish: Landscape surveys in the area of Jerablus Tahtani, 2006", Levant 39, pp. 213-247, 2007
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