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Surroundings:

Qatna - General view of the Royal Palace, (c. 1650-1350 BC )

Location:

  • Syrian Arab Republic, Al Mashrafah
  • geo:34.836021,36.863796
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -2000~ / -1750~

Class:

  • Grave or burial field
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=49549

Annotations

The Royal Hypogeum (RH) of Qatna is a rock-cut chamber tomb that had been in use until the Late Bronze-Age. Tomb contained remains of 20-24 individuals of both sexes and all age group .

See:

  1. Peter Pfälzner: Levantine Kingdoms of the Late Bronze Age, in: Original veröffentlichung in: A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (eds. D.T. Potts), Oxford 2012, pp. 770-790 - http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdok/2856/1/Pfaelzner_Levantine%20Kingdoms%202012.pdf
  2.  Carsten Witzel, Susanne Degenhardt, Heike Dohmann-Pfälzner, Peter Pfälzner, Stefan Flohr: The Royal Hypogeum and Tomb VII from Middle/Late Bronze Age Qatna (Tell Mishrife, Syria) as burial places of the elite?, Conference: 82nd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthroplogists, At Knoxville, TN, Universität Hildesheim 2013 - https://www.academia.edu/33843853

Nearby

Qatna Tomb VII

Late Bronze-Age burial chamber.

Qatna, Royal Palace [Qatanum]

The Bronze Age Royal palace in Qatna.

Qatna, Archive of Idanda

XIVth century BC royal archive.


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