Qatna (site)

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Qatna (Tell Mishrife) is an important archaeological site in present day Syria, situated in the Wadi il-Aswad, a tributary of the Orontes River, 18 km northeast of Homs, and occupying 1 km²—one of the largest Bronze Age towns in western Syria.

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Excavation Reports

Articles

  • Maritan, L., Mazzoli, C., Michielin, V., Moradni Bonacossi, D., Luciani, M. and Molin, G. [2005], "The Provenance and Production Technology of Bronze Age and Iron Age Pottery from Tell Mishrifeh/Qatna (Syria)", Archaeometry 47.4 (2005), pp.723–744.
  • Al-Maqdissi, M. [2002}, "Ergebnisse der sechsten Kampagne der syrischen Ausgrabungen in Mišrife-Qatna im Jahr 2000", MDOG 134 (2002), pp.193–206.
    • [2003], "Ergebnisse der siebten und achten syrischen Grabungskampagnen 2001 und 2002 in Mišrife-Qatna", MDOG 135 (2003), pp.219–45.
  • Barro, A. [2002], "Operation H", in Al-Maqdissi, M., Luciani, M., Morandi Bonacossi, D., Novák, M. and Pfälzner, P. (eds), Excavating Qatna, I. Preliminary Report on the 1999 and 2000 Campaigns of the Joint Syrian–Italian–German Archaeological Research Project at Tell Mishrifeh, [Documents d'archéologie syrienne 4], Damascus: Direction Général des Antiquités et des Musées de Syrie—Udine: University of Udine—Tübingen: University of Tübingen, 2002, pp.111–22. ISBN 3000104909
    • [2003], "Rediscovering ‘Le Palais’: New Data from the Royal Palace of Qatna (Operation H)", Akkadica 124.1 (2003), pp.78–96.
  • Brew, G. E., Barazangi, M., Al-Maleh, A. K., and Sawaf, T. [2001], "Tectonic and geologic evolution of Syria", GeoArabia 6 (2001), pp.573–616.
  • Cremaschi, M., Morandi Bonacossi, D., and Valsecchi, V. [2005], "The ancient environment of Tell Mishrifeh/Qatna. A preliminary reconstruction", in Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Berlin 2004 (eds. R. Eichmann, H. Kühne and B. Salje), in press.
  • Cremaschi, M., Trombino, L., and Sala, A., 2002, The geoarchaeology of Tell Mishrifeh, in Excavating Qatna I. Preliminary report on the 1999 and 2000 campaigns of the joint Syrian–Italian–German archaeological research project at Tell Mishrifeh (eds. M. Al-Maqdissi, M. Luciani, D. Morandi Bonacossi, M. Novák and P. Pfälzner), 2002, pp.17–24, Damascus.
  • Cremaschi, M., Trombino, L., Sala, A., and Valsecchi, V., 2003, Underfitted streams and the Holocene palaeo-environment in the region of Tell Mishrifeh-Qatna (central Syria), Akkadica, 124(1), 71–7.
  • Da Ros, M., and Iamoni, M., 2003, The Bronze and Iron Age pottery: a preliminary account, Akkadica, 124(2), 177–196.
  • Garna, G., 2003, Operation H, in Unpublished preliminary report on the 2003 excavation campaign at Tell Mishrifeh by the Italian component of the joint Syrian–Italian–German excavation project.
  • Klengel, H. [2000], "Qatna—Ein historischer Überblick", MDOG 132 (2000), pp.239–252.
  • Luciani, M. [2001], "Tell Mishrifeh/Qatna: the Bronze Age Pottery Sequence", in Proceedings of The Archaeology of the Orontes Valley Workshop, Durham 2001.
    • [2002], Operation K, in Excavating Qatna I. Preliminary report on the 1999 and 2000 campaigns of the joint Syrian–Italian–German archaeological research project at Tell Mishrifeh (eds. M. Al-Maqdissi, M. Luciani, D. Morandi Bonacossi, M. Novák and P. Pfälzner), pp.145–68, Damascus.
    • [2003a], A new palace in Qatna (Mishrifeh, central Syria), Occident & Orient, Newsletter of the German Protestant Institute of Archaeology in Amman, 8(1), 24–6.
    • [2003b], "The Lower City of Qatna in the Late Bronze and Iron Ages: Operation K", Akkadica 124.2 (2003), pp.144–163.
    • [2004], Palazzi, abitazioni e botteghe tra prima Età del Bronzo Tardo e Ferro nell’antica Qatna. Il cantiere K a Tell Mishrifeh, in Atti delle giornate di studio ‘Ricerche archeologiche in Italia e in Siria’, Verona 6–7 maggio 2002 (eds. A. Guidi and S. Ponchia), 107–20, Padova.
  • Morandi Bonacossi, D. [2003], "The Central Mound of the Qatna Acropolis in the Bronze and Iron Ages: Operation J at Tell Mishrifeh", Akkadica, 124.1 (2003), pp.97–118.
    • [2004], "Lo stoccaggio intensivo dei cereali sulla sommità dell’acropoli di Tell Mishrifeh/Qatna nella seconda metà del III millennio a.C.", in Atti delle giornate di studio ‘Ricerche archeologiche in Italia e in Siria’, Verona 6–7 maggio 2002 (eds. A. Guidi and S. Ponchia), 48–58, Padova.
    • [2005a], "A new royal statue from Tell Mishrifeh/Qatna", in Timelines, studies in honour of Manfred Bietak, OLA, vol. III (eds. E. Czerny, I. Hein, H. Hunger, D. Melman and A. Schwab), 53–62, Leuven.
    • [2005b], Large-scale pottery production at Middle Bronze Age Qatna, in Proceedings of the Third International Conference on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Paris 2004 (eds. J.-C. Margueron, P. de Miroschedji and J. P. Thalmann), in press.
    • [2005c], The EBA IV and the EBA–MBA transition at Tell Mishrifeh and its region, in The Levant in transition—the intermediate Early Bronze Age (ed. J. Tubb), London, in press.
    • [2005d], Un centro amministrativo nel regno di Hamath. Tell Mishrifeh e la sua regione nella seconda età del Ferro (IX–VIII secolo a.C.), in Tra oriente e occidente. Miscellanea in onore di Elena Di Filippo (eds. D. Morandi Bonacossi, E. Rova, F. Veronese and P. Zanovello), Padova, in press.
  • Mukherjee, Anna J., Roßberger, Elisa, James, Matthew A., Pfälzner, Peter, Higgitt, Catherine L., White, Raymond, Peggie, David A., Azar, Dany and Evershed, Richard P. [2008}, "The Qatna Lion: Scientific Confirmation of Baltic Amber in Late Bronze Age Syria", Antiquity 82 (2008), pp.49-59.
  • Novák, M., and Pfälzner, P. [2001], "Ausgrabungen in Tall Mishrife-Qatna 2000, Vorbericht der deutschen Komponente des internationalen Kooperationsprojektes", MDOG 133 (2001), pp.157–198.
    • [2002], "Ausgrabungen in Tall Mishrife-Qatna 2001, Vorbericht der deutschen Komponente des internationalen Kooperationsprojektes", MDOG 134 (2002), pp.207–246.
  • Roccati, Alessandro [2005], "Un frammento di pietra inciso con i nomi di Sesostri I scoperto a Qatna (Siria)", Redazione Archaeogate (24-02-2005). [1]

External Links

  • Qatna.org - Notizie della missione archeologica italiana a Tell Mishrifeh/Qatna (Siria) / News from the Italian Expedition at Tell Mishrifeh/Qatna (Syria)
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