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)
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
‘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)