Tell Sweyhat
A III millennium site on the left bank of
the Upper Syrian Euphrates, 65 km down river from Jerablus. It
consists of a central mound surrounded by a lower town enclosed
by a rampart or wall. It was occupied around 3000 BC, and it
reached the size of at least 35 hectares in the final centuries
of the III millennium. Ancient name(s) unknown. Main findings
include an important building on the central mound and a mid III
millennium cemetery in the lower town.
M. Bonechi - February 2000
Literature:
Buitenhuis H.
The Animal Remains from
Tell es-Sweyhat, Syria, Palaeohistory 25 (1983), pp.
131-144
Holland Th. H.
Evidence for Trade at
Tell es-Sweyhat During the Second Half of the Third Millennium
B.C., AAAS 43 (1999), pp. 125-131
Incised Pottery from Tell Sweyhat, Syria and Its Foreign
Connections, in J. Margueron ed., Le Moyen Euphrate,
Paris 1977, pp. 127-157
An Inscribed Weight from Tell Sweyhat, Syria, Iraq
37 (1975), pp. 75-76
Preliminary Report on Excavations at Tell Sweyhat, Syria
1973-4, Levant 8 (1976), pp. 36-70
Preliminary Report on Excavations at Tell Sweyhat, Syria 1975,
Levant 9 (1977), pp. 36-65
Tall as-Sw‡hat 1989-1992, AfO 40-41
(1993-1994), pp. 275-285
Holland Th. H. -
Zettler R. L.
Sweyhat, AJA
95 (1991), pp. 715-717
Sweyhat, AJA 98 (1994), pp. 136-139
Zettler R. L. -
Armstrong J. - Bell A. - Braithwhite M. - Danti M. D. - Miller N.
F. - Weber J. A. - Peregrine P.
Subsistence and
Settlement in a Marginal Environment. Tell el-Sweyhat, 1989-1995
Preliminary Report, MASCA 14 (1996)
Zettler R. L. -
Danti M. D.
Sweyhat, AJA
101 (1997), pp. 141-144
Zettler R. L. -
Miller N. F. - Weber J. A. - Peregrine P. - Danti M. D.
Tell es-Sweyhat,
1989-1996. A City in Northern Mesopotamia in the 3rd Millennium
B.C., Expedition 38 (1996), pp. 14-36
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