9th International Congress on the Archaeologyof the Ancient Near East
2014 Basel, Switzerland
Editors-in-Chief

Rolf A. Stucky – Oskar Kaelin – Hans-Peter Mathys
Volume 3
Oskar Kaelin – Hans-Peter Mathys (editors)

Reports

Proceedings, 9 th ICAANE, Basel 2014, Vol. 3

ContentsIraq

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Giacomo Benati – Camille Lecompte
New Light on the Early Archives from Ur: The «Ancient Room» Tablet Hoard

13

Eloisa Casadei
Southern Mesopotamian Contexts and a Reevaluation of the Ur III Pottery.
Reconsidering a Chronological Periodization

31

Franco D’Agostino – Ali Khadem Ghanim – Licia RomanoAbu Tbeirah. Preliminary Report of the 2012–2013 Campaigns

45

Paul Zimansky – Elizabeth Stone
Tell Sakhariya and Gaeš

57

Iraq (Kurdistan)

67

Kyra Kaercher
A Preliminary Assessment of the Ceramic Sequence of Northeastern Iraqi Kurdistan

69

John MacGinnis – Timothy Matney – Kemalettin KöroğluExcavations in the Lower Town of Ziyaret Tepe 2012 and 201383

Karel Nováček – Miroslav Melčák
The Medieval Urban Landscape in Northeastern Mesopotamia (MULINEM):
First Two Years of the Project

95

Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault – Olivier RouaultFrench Excavations in Qasr Shemamok, Iraqi Kurdistan (2013 and 2014 campaigns):
the Assyrian Town and Beyond

107

Tevfik Emre Şerifoğlu – Jesse Casana – Claudia Glatz – Shwkr Muhammed Haydar
Initial Results of the Sirwan (Upper Diyala) Regional Project119

Tim B. B. Skuldbøl – Carlo Colantoni
First Results of the Rania Plain Survey. Salvage Operations in the Dokan Dam Inundation Zone

131

Aline Tenu – Christine Kepinski
Kunara, a Bronze Age City on the Upper Tanjaro (Iraq)

147

6ContentsSyria

161

Cristina Baccarin
Consumption in a Temple? An Interpretation of the Ceramic Repertoireof the Early Bronze Age Temple at Tell Ahmar (North Syria)

163

Anna Gómez BachCharacterizing Red Ware : More than a Single Production at Tell Halula (Syria)
at the End of the Halaf Period

177

Guy Bunnens
A 3rd Millennium Temple at Tell Ahmar (Syria)

187

Marta D’Andrea
New Data from Old Excavations: Preliminary Study of the EB IVB Pottery from Area H
at Tell Mardikh/Ebla, Syria

199

Stephanie Döpper
The LBA pottery of Area BU in the Royal Palace of Qatna, Syria

217

Frank HoleHistorical Processes on the Middle Khabur River, Syria, during the Late Ubaid:Intrusion, Attenuation and Divergence

231

Béatrice Muller
Panneaux d’incrustation en coquille de Mari, Ville II: implications
des matériaux et des techniques

243

Paola Poli
Seals and Sealings from Tell Masaikh–Kar-Assurnasirpal. Some New Results

257

Agnese Vacca
New Data on the EB III–IVA1 of North-Western Syria in the light of Old
and Recent Excavations at Tell Mardikh/Ebla and Tell Tuqan

269

Turkey283

Gulan Ayaz
The Early Iron Age Jewellery from the Karagündüz Necropolis in Eastern Anatoliaand Its Relationship to Southern Caucasia

285

Alice Boccia Paterakis – Sachihiro Omura
Gold Cloisonné from the Assyrian Colony Period in Central Anatolia

293

Müge Bulu
An Intact Palace Kitchen Context from Middle Bronze Age Alalakh: Organization and Function

301

Nilgün CoşkunMiddle and Neo-Assyrian Periods of the Harran Plain in Light of a Survey

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Anacleto D’Agostino – Valentina Orsi
Researches at Uşaklı Höyük (Central Turkey): Survey, Surface Scraping
and First Digging Operations

333

Sevinç Günel
A New Centre of Intercultural Relations in Western Anatolia during the Late Bronze Age:Çine-Tepecik

347

Sara Pizzimenti – Federico ZainaThe Iron Age at Karkemish between Tradition and Innovation.
The Case Study of the Pottery Assemblage from Area C

361

Iran

377

Rasoul Seyedin Boroujeni – Saman Hamzavi Zarghani – Mohsen Zeidi
Discovery of Long Term Occupation in the Saimarreh River Valley, Western Iran
(Report on the Archaeological Survey)

379

Enzo Cocca – Andrea Genito – Bruno Genito – Giulio Maresca
A WebGIS about the Italian Archaeological Activities in Sistan, Iran(60s–70s of the 20th century): Archaeo.Pro.Di.Mu.S.

393

Nicolas Assur Corfù
Esotericism at Persepolis – Really?

405

Ata Hasanpur – Zahra Hashemi
A Comparative Study of the New Sassanid’s Stuccos from Qela Gowri, Ramavand, Lorestan, Iran

417

Najmeh Hassas
An Introduction to the Traditional Arch and Vault from the Elamite (1250 BC. M.)
to the Qajar period (1925) in Iran

429

Vito Messina – Jafar Mehr Kian
The Religious Complex at Shami. Preliminary Report on the Research of the Iranian-Italian
Joint Expedition in Khuzestan at Kal-e Chendar

439

Israel – Lebanon – Levant

449

Eva Katarina Glazer
Sedentary and Nomadic Population during Bronze Age Southern Levant:
An Example of Cultural Contacts

451

Aaron Greener
Analyzing the Late Bronze Age Imported Pottery Distribution in the Southern Levant:Overcoming Methodological Challenges

463

Haskel J. Greenfield – Itzhaq Shai – Aren M. Maeir
Understanding Early Bronze Age Urban Patterns from the Perspective of Non-Elite Neighbourhood:
The Excavations at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel475

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Ann E. Killebrew – Jamie Quartermaine
Total Archaeology@Tel Akko (The 2013 and 2014 Seasons): Excavation, Survey,
Community Outreach and New Approaches to Landscape Archaeology in 3D

491

Florine Marchand
L’industrie lithique de Tell ‘Arqa (Plaine du Akkar, Liban Nord)503

Jordan515

Don Boyer
Aqueducts and Birkets: New Evidence of the Water Management SystemServicing Gerasa (Jarash), Jordan

517

Marta D’Andrea
Pottery Production at Khirbat Iskandar, Jordan. Preliminary Resultsof the Technological Study of EB IV Pottery from the Site

533

Sumio Fujii
Slab-lined Feline Representations: New Finding at ‘Awja 1,a Late Neolithic Open-air Sanctuary in Southernmost Jordan

549

Lucas PetitTell Damiyah. A Small Settlement Mound with a Remarkable International Role

561

Andrea Polcaro – Juan Muñiz – Valentín Alvarez
The New Spanish-Italian Expedition to the EB I site of Jebel al-Mutawwaq,
Middle Wadi az-Zarqa, Jordan: Preliminary Results of the 2012–2013 Campaigns

571

Suzanne Richard
Recent Excavations at Khirbat Iskandar, Jordan. The EB III/IV Fortifications.

585

Uzbekistan – Turkmenistan – Afghanistan599

Joaquín María Córdoba – Muhammed Mamedov
L’âge du fer au Dehistan. Nouvelles recherches archéologiques turkmènes et espagnoles
sur les sites de Geoktchik Depe et Izat Kuli (Province de Balkan, Turkménistan)

601

Fabiana Raiano
Pottery from the joint Uzbek-Italian Archaeological Mission at Kojtepa(Samarkand Area – Uzbekistan)

615

Victor Sarianidi – Nadezhda Dubova
Types of Graves at Gonur Depe Bronze Age Site in Turkmenistan

631

Liliya Sataeva – Robert Sataev
Wood Using at the Bronze Age Site Gonur-Depe (Ancient Margiana, South Turkmenistan)

643

Judith Thomalsky
Afghanistan: Ancient Mining and Metallurgy: Initial Project Stage

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9Oman

663

Michele Degli Esposti
Excavations at the Early Bronze Age Site «ST1» near Bisya (Sultanate of Oman):
Notes on the Architecture and Material Culture

665

Stephanie Döpper
Expressions of Collective Memory – The Reuse of EBA Tombs in the Necropolis of Bāt,
Sultanate of Oman

679

Conrad Schmidt
Mobile Pastoralists as Global Players: Excavations at Al-Zebah, Sultanate of Oman

689

Azerbaijan – Georgia – Caucasus-Region697

Jeyhun Eminli – Emil Iskenderov
Archaeological Investigations at Piboz Tapa Necropolis. Lerik, Southern Azerbaijan(Preliminary Report 2012–2013)

699

Seiji Kadowaki – Farhad Guliyev – Yoshihiro Nishiaki
Chipped Stone Technology of the Earliest Agricultural Village in the Southern Caucasus:Hacı Elamxanlı Tepe (the Beginning of the 6th Millennium BC)

709

René Kunze
Interdisciplinary Studies on the Small Finds from the Late Bronze/Early Iron Age Settlementsof Udabno I–III (Eastern Georgia)

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General Topics

735

Silvia Alaura – Davide Nadali
Researching the Archives: A Shared Past for the Future. The GRISSO Project

737

Gino Caspari
Ein Inventar der Hügelgräber im Altaigebirge. Kulturgüterschutz durch Fernerkundung

741

Fabrice De Backer
La construction d’un char de guerre néo-assyrien

751

Rita Gautschy
Astronomical Data and their Potential for Chronological Purposes

763

Krzysztof HippŠamšī-Adad V’s Campaigns into the Zagros Revisited

769

Chamsia Sadozaï – David Gandreau
Conserver après la fouille: la question des structures en terre crueà partir d’exemples en Asie centrale

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