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Location:

  • Syrian Arab Republic, Aleppo
  • geo:36.199356,37.16256
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -3300~ / unknown

Class:

  • Temple or sanctuary
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=24504

Annotations

Early Bronze Age  temple dedicated to storm god  Hadad was built atop a hill .

See:

  1. Peter Pfälzner: Levantine Kingdoms of the Late Bronze Age, in: Originalveröffentlichung in: A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (eds. D.T. Potts), Oxford 2012, pp. 770-796
  2. https://madainproject.com/temple_of_hadad_(aleppo_citadel)
  3. Gonnella, Julia, Wahid Khayyata, and Kay Kohlmeyer. Die Zitadelle von Aleppo und der Tempel des Wettergottes. Muenster: Rhema, 2005.
  4. idem: (2008), The Citadel of Aleppo: Description, History, Site Plan and Visitor Tour (Guidebook), Aga Khan Trust for Culture and the Syrian Directorate-General of Antiquities and Museums
  5. https://www.archnet.org/sites/17289?media_content_id=126280

Relevant museums

Aleppo, National Museum

Large collection of Bronze Age (a/o Ebla, Mari, Ugarit), Iron Age (Arslan Tash), Hellenistic, and Roman finds.

Istanbul Archaeology Museums

Istanbul Archaeology Museums

Paris, Louvre

Paris, Louvre


Nearby

Beroea, temple

Beroia, temple

Talmi-Sharruma inscription, Aleppo 1

Talmi-Sharruma inscription, Aleppo 1

Aleppo Theatre - Beroia

Aleppo Theatre - Beroia


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