= Herrmann V.R. − Schloen D., Middle Bronze Age Zincirli: The Date of “Hilani I” and the End of Middle Bronze II, in: BASOR 385 33-51. [DOI 10.1086/711911. (Abstract: Zincirli Höyük in southern Turkey is best known as the Iron Age city of Samʾal, but recent excavations
by the Chicago-Tübingen Expedition have discovered important remains of the Middle Bronze
Age II, destroyed in a conflagration. This article presents two major interim results for Zincirli’s settlement
history that also have implications for the architectural history and chronology of the Northern
Levant. In addition to a wealth of material that gives new insight into local administration and production
and interregional connections between Syria and Anatolia, the excavations have revealed that
the monumental building Hilani I, though long assumed to be the earliest palace of the Iron Age, dates
instead to the Middle Bronze Age. Contemporary parallels suggest that it was a broadroom temple rather
than a bīt ḫ ilāni palace. Furthermore, radiocarbon analysis and ceramic evidence date the destruction to
the mid- to late 17th century B.C.E. and thus suggest that the agent of the destruction wasḪ attušili I in his
campaign against Zalwar (Zalpa), nearby Tilmen Höyük. Future research on the Middle Bronze Age at
Zincirli promises to illuminate its connection to a little-known Syro-Anatolian exchange network, probably
centered on Aleppo, which the rising Hittite kingdom may have hoped to disrupt or co-opt)] Neue Abfrage | New Search
