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Tell Tweini/Gibala and the Northern Levant in the Early Iron Age

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Tell Tweini/Gibala and the Northern

Levant in the Early Iron Age

Jebleh plain – northwest Syria

Iron Age

Bronze Age

UGARIT

Excavation house

Field B:

Phoenician

Temple

Field A:

Temple/Houses/Graves

Field C: City Wall

Late Bronze and Iron II Age structures

(view towards the northeast), Field A

Tell Tweini: Iron II

Late Bronze Age II level 7B - Field A (2010)

Level 7B (LBII)

Tweini VIIIB (Niveau 7B, Field A) (no. 1-6,8-16),

Tweini VIIIA (Niveau 7D, Field A) (no. 7)

Arrow- and spearheads

(Late Bronze Age II)

TWE destruction level

7A

Tell Kazel: Local production of HMBW (a) Main

HMBW fabric group, sample TK127. (b) Main

HMBW fabric group, sample TK 144. (c) Main

local HMBW fabric group, sample TK 139. (d)

Minor HMBW fabric group, sample TK 122. All

images are XP, image width a, b and d = 4.6 mm,

c = 2.5 mm.

Foreign ceramic tradition, local clays: the

Handmade Burnished Ware of Tell Kazel

(Syria) Journal of Archaeological Science

2010

LB destruction 7A

fill above LBA II destruction:

Early Iron 6H-6E

Tell Tweini: locally made Mycenaean deep bowls

(typologically dated to the beginning of LH IIIC Early)

Fill above LBA II

destruction:

LBA II

destruction

(Sea Peoples):

Tell Tweini level 6 G-H

Iron I Iron I

‘Cratère’ level 6G-H, type Syrian White Slipped

Tell Tweini Ras Ibn Hani

LB destruction 7A

fill above LBA II destruction:

Early Iron 6H-6E

Between 6E-F Early

and 6E-F Late: Red

Layer

Tweini Field A - Level 6 E-F, 11th century BC

Tweini Field A - Level 6 E-F, 11th century BC

White Painted I bowl White Painted I amphoriskos

TWE-08-A-06454-C-061

Enkomi destruction IIIB

ca. 1125

Loom weights of unfired clay:

standard Canaanite-type (left);

spool-shaped Aegean-type (right)

Tell Abu al-Kharaz ca. 1100 BCE

Reconstruction drawing of an Early

Iron Age warp-weighted loom

Terra cotta plaque with a cultic scene (6E-Iron Age I/ ca1050 BC)

Tweini Field A - Level 6 E-F, ca. 11th century BC

Kition

Bamboule

Tweini

Jebleh plain – Northwestern Syria

Iron Age

Bronze Age

UGARIT

2m hohe Basalt-Stele für den siegreichen König Uratarhunta,

gefunden am Südhang der Akropolis von Karkemisch

ca. 975 v. Chr.

(Nicolo Marchetti, Uni. Bologna, Antike Welt 1/2013)