The Akkadian Occupation in the Northwest Area of the Tell Leilan Acropolis (original) (raw)

Post-Akkadian Settlement Distribution in the Leilan Region Survey

2013

The end of the Akkadian period, in the last half ofthe twenty-third century, is coincident with the beginning of a degradation of climatic conditions, recorded in more than 30 paleoclimnte proxies from Tanzania in Africa to Rajasthan in India, which led to a ca. 30 % precipitntion decrease and aridification across West Asia (Weiss et al. 1993; Staubwasser and Weiss 2006; Weiss 2010). The imperialized urban center of Tell Leilan changed drastically during this period: both the Lower Town and the City Gate were abandoned and naturally filled with dust deposits (Weiss 1990; Ristvet, Guilderson and Weiss 2004), and on the Acropolis, The Unfinished Building, left incomplete, testifies to the suddenness of this event (Ristvet and Weiss 2(00). Following this abandonment, four rooms and an open courtyard, comprising only 0.1 ha. were reoccupied above an area of the previous Akkadian Administrative Building, and arc the only remains of Leilan IIc (post-Akkadian) occupation at the site (Weiss 2010; Weiss et aI., this volume: 163). The post-Akkadian reoccupation at Tell Leilan was very brief, and at ca. 2200 cal. BC the settlement was abandoned until the arrival of Shamsi-Adad (Weiss et aI., this volume: 163). In general, the evidence of post-Akkadian occupation in the Leilan Region Survey mirrors the developments at the site of Tell Leilan, where a widespread, imperial territorial organization was followed by a limited number of short-lived occupations.

An Outline of the History of Archaeology / Lilian Karali, Anna Afonasina, and Eugene Afonasin

ΣΧΟΛΗ. Ancient Philosophy and the Classical Tradition, 2019

In this lecture, one can find an abbreviated historical trajectory of the appearance and development of archaeology as a science. The aim is to demonstrate the perceptions and biases, which have influenced and still influence the archaeological theory and practice in negative or positive ways. The lecture was prepared for the participants of the program on “Classics and Philosophy” of Novosibirsk State University (October 2018).

Excavations at the Aghia Aikateriki square, Kastelli, Khania 2005 and 2008: a preliminary report

2014

In January 2005 the Greek–Swedish Excavations and the Danish Institute at Athens were approached by the 25th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical antiquities to assist the excavations conducted by the Ephorate in connection with the construction of a protective roof over the Agia Aikaterini Square, where the Greek–Swedish Excavations had been going on since 1969. The proposal was gratefully accepted. The excavations were carried out during the period 1st April to 6th September 2005. Altogether 46 trial tests (marked on Fig. 1) were made. Apart from the trial tests, an area in the eastern part of the square was also included in the excavation programme (Trenches 34‑36, cf. Fig. 1). Here, three Linear B tablets were found in situ, in 1990. The field directors of the excavation were Dr. Maria Andreadaki-Vlazaki and Dr. Erik Hallager. In 2008, when the drawings for the protective roof had finally been approved by the Ministry of Culture, more trial tests were carried out together with ...

1985 Excavations at Tell Leilan, Syria.

American Journal of Archaeology 94.4: 529-581, 1990

"The 1985 season of excavations at Tell Leilan, northeastern Syria, revised our knowledge of the city's role in Mesopotamian cultural, political, and developmental history of the mid-third and early second millennium B.C. The Acropolis Period I Building Level 2 (19th century) temple plan was completed and established as the earliest historic period example of the Assyrian" long-room"temple. Portions of another major building on the Acropolis, perhaps the same temple's anterooms, with a secondarily deposited royal cuneiform archive, were also retrieved. Two hundred square meters of another public building, probably a palace, containing the in situ remains of another royal archive of the 18th century, were recovered from the eastern Lower Town. The occupational history of an area at the northeastern city wall was defined, thereby raising new questions concerning the growth of the mid-third millennium city and its subsequent history. The assemblages of cuneiform tablets from the Acropolis and the Lower Town establish the identification of Tell Leilan as the long-sought Shubat Enlil. Cylinder seal impressions associated with the archives provide a touchstone for chronological, functional, and stylistic analyses of Old Babylonian glyptic."