The aim of this project is the study and publication of the post-2000 BC archaeological remains from Tell al-Judaidah. Nearly 80 years ago, this long-lived, strategically-located mound on the "plain of Antioch" near the Mediterranean coast was excavated by the University of Chicago's Syro-Hittite Expedition. This large ancient site is located in the modern-day Amuq Valley within the Hatay province of Turkey, near the city of Antakya. The mound was home to settlements that were contemporary with Alalakh (the Middle & Late Bronze Age palatial center) and Tayinat (the Iron Age palatial center, possibly ancient Kunalua) and onward into the Persian, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine/Christian periods.
All the stratigraphy, architecture, pottery, and small finds excavated during the 1930s will be included in this publication. The project is supported by the University of Southern California, a Shelby White-Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications, the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute and Museum and the Hatay Museum.
All the results of the project are being posted on the Internet in a research database (OCHRE) located at the University of Chicago. This database eventually will be made publicly available for research purposes.
(the pages listed below are in development)
*Participants
in the modern project
*What
is Tell al-Judaidah?
*What
is the Tell al-Judaidah: the Late Phases project?
*The original Chicago expedition, including Robert Braidwood *Subsequent
work in the Amuq Valley |
