Tell Tweini | The Levantine Ceramics Project

Site: Tell Tweini

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Site Information

Site name (primary, secondary):

Tell Tweini

Country/region:

Syria/Coast/An-Nusayriah Mountains

Alternate names & spellings:

Gibala, Jableh

Coordinates (N,E):

35.3710943 , 35.936537

Periods attested by vessels on the LCP:

Middle Bronze Age, Middle Bronze Age II, Middle Bronze Age III, Late Bronze Age, Late Bronze Age I, Late Bronze Age II, Late Bronze Age III, Iron Age, Iron Age I, Iron Age IIA, Iron Age IIB, Iron Age IIC

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Site Description

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Related Images

Tell Tweini - Geophysical map

Field C: the city wall, viewed from the southeast

Vessels 266

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TWE-A-01056-C-001

Juglet

Tell Tweini

c. 11th-3th c. BCE

Iron Age

TWE-A-00423-C-002-011-027

Amphora

Tell Tweini

c. 8th-13th c. BCE

Iron Age IIA, Iron Age IIB

TWE-A-00144-C-001-002-003-004-005

Amphora

Tell Tweini

c. 10th-12th c. BCE

Iron Age I

TWE-A-00144-C-022

Amphora

Tell Tweini

c. 10th-12th c. BCE

Iron Age I

Break Photos 0

Petrographic Samples 0

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Site/Project URLs and Database Links

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Associated Wares/Ware Families/Style

Ware name:

Date:

Period:

Northern Levantine Bronze-Iron Age Plain Wares

c. 3500-500 BCE

Early Bronze Age, Middle Bronze Age, Late Bronze Age, Iron Age

Coastal Levantine MB-LB Slipped Ware

c. 2000 BCE to c. 550 BCE

Middle Bronze Age, Late Bronze Age

Middle-Late Cypriot White Painted Handmade Wares

1950 BCE-1300 BCE

Middle Cypriot I-II, Middle Cypriot III, Late Cypriot I, Late Cypriot II A-B

Middle-Late Cypriot Red-on-Black wares

1750 BCE - 1450 BCE

Middle Cypriot I-II, Middle Cypriot III, Late Cypriot I

Coastal Levantine MB-LB Painted Ware (LPW)

c. 1750-1400 BCE

Middle Bronze Age II, Middle Bronze Age III, Late Bronze Age I

Middle-Late Cypriot White Painted Pendent Line/Cross Line style ware

c. 1750-1300 BCE

Middle Cypriot III, Late Cypriot II A-B

Middle-Late Cypriot Plain White Wares

c.1750 - c. 1050 BCE

Middle Cypriot III, Late Cypriot

Middle-Late Cypriot Bichrome ware

c. 1650-1450 BCE

Middle Cypriot III, Late Cypriot I

Late Cypriot White Slip wares

ca. 1650-1200 BCE

Middle Cypriot III, Late Cypriot I, Late Cypriot II

Late Bronze Age Red Lustrous Wheelmade wares (RLW)

c. 1550-1200 BCE

Late Bronze Age

Late Cypriot White Lustrous wheelmade ware

c. 1550-1200 BCE

Late Cypriot

Late Cypriot Base Ring wares

c. 1550-1150 BCE

Late Cypriot I, Late Cypriot II

Late Cypriot Monochrome Ware

ca. 1500-1200 BCE

Late Cypriot

Cypriot Iron Age Bichrome ware

ca. 1050 BCE - 300 BCE

Cypro-Geometric, Cypro-Archaic, Cypro-Classical

Cypriot Iron Age Black Slip

c. 1050 to c. 300 BCE

Cypro-Geometric, Cypro-Archaic, Cypro-Classical

Cypriot Iron Age White Painted wares

1050 BCE - 300 BCE

Cypro-Geometric, Cypro-Archaic, Cypro-Classical

Cypriot Iron Age Black-on-Red wares (BOR)

ca. 925/900 BCE - 300 BCE

Cypro-Geometric, Cypro-Archaic, Cypro-Classical

Cypriot Iron Age Brown-Grey Burnished

c. 900 to c. 500 BCE

Cypro-Geometric, Cypro-Archaic

Associated Petro-fabrics

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Associated Kilns/Workshops

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Bibliography

Bretschneider, J., Van Lerberghe, K. "An Archaeological and Historical Study Based on Eight Seasons of Excavations at Tell Tweini (Syria) in the A and C Fields. The Syro-Belgian 'Tell Tweini' Project (1999–2007)" in In Search of Gibala. Barcelona: AUSA. Michel al-Maqdissi, Karel Van Lerberghe et al., The Occupation Levels of Tell Tweini and Their Historical Implications, in [1] Proceedings of the 51st Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale. Oriental Institute SAOC 62. 2005, 341–350
Bretschneider, Joachim, and Greta Jans. About Tell Tweini (Syria): artefacts, ecofacts and landscape. Research Results of the Belgian Mission. ORIENTALIA LOVANIENSIA ANALECTA 281. LEUVEN – PARIS – BRISTOL, CT: PEETERS, 2019
Patrick Degryse and Klass Vansteenhuyse. "Petrographic Characterisation of the Ceramic Fabric Groups at Tell Tweini" in About Tell Tweini (Syria): Artefacts, Ecofacts and Landscape. Research Results of the Belgian Mission. , ed(s). Joachim Bretschneider and Greta Jans. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 281. LEUVEN – PARIS – BRISTOL, CT: Peeters, 2019, 639-651

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