While Jan-Waalke Meyer and his team, at the present time, successfully pursue the excavation of Steinbau VI, a superb temple in antis situated at the centre of the tell of Chuera, it is with great pleasure that I offer him the lines which...
moreWhile Jan-Waalke Meyer and his team, at the present time, successfully pursue the excavation of Steinbau VI, a superb temple in antis situated at the centre of the tell of Chuera, it is with great pleasure that I offer him the lines which follow. They are intended to be a modest tribute to the excavator of one of the principal Early Bronze Age cities of Syria, whose parallels with the site of Al-Rawda are striking: these two cities, founded in the Early Bronze Age, are new cities with preconceived urban plans. They are both organised around a network of streets in which concentric streets and radial arteries arranged in a star pattern cross each other, and they have both produced temples in antis. Apart from our common research on similar themes, this article provides a new link between our two sites and our two teams, whose encounters have always been a source of enrichment and pleasure.
