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  • » This overview shows all trenches visualised for the project. The massif itself is centered in the image and barely visible.
  • » This accumulation of mud-bricks show a wall ending at the Massif Rouge.
  • » This trench shows architecture build against the Massif Rouge, which is buried under earth in the background.
  • » This small trench shows part of the Massif Rouge covered by mud-bricks.

Visualisation of the Massif Rouge in Mari

By On 2000-01-28 With No Comments

About the project Mari, modern Tell Hariri, located in the Middle Euphrates region in Syria is one of the most famous sites in the Near East, and dates from the 3rd to the beginning of the 2nd millennium BCE. The excavations at the Massif Rouge, a massive red-bricked terrasse, offers a very complicated excavation and […]

  • » Infographic showing two of the different building phases of the fortification wall in Mari (here phases Ville III and Ville II récent).
  • » Reconstruction of the fortification wall and gate of Mari phase Ville II (récent).
  • » Reconstruction of the domestic residence in Sector N3. For the restitution of this building, the functionality of its rooms and its internal organisation were taken into account, as well as considerations on its lighting-conditions and the general requirements for the mud brick architecture.
  • » Detail of the South Residence showing the mud plastering, wooden roof beams and doors.
  • » Infographic showing the bastion of the fortification wall (Lim period/phase Ville III) with its staircase construction.

The Fortifications of Mari

By On 2000-01-25 With No Comments

About the project Mari, modern Tell Hariri, located in the Middle Euphrates region in Syria is one of the most famous sites in the Near East, and dates from the 3rd to the beginning of the 2nd millennium BCE. Since it was destroyed and rebuilt several times during that period, its excavators divided its occupational […]

  • » Overview of excavation trench V.1 in Mari. The schematic colours indicate different building phases.
  • » Detail of the main trench with applied sections and various small-finds.
  • » Detail with different small-finds displayed in the trench.

Visualisation of an excavation trench

By On 2000-01-15 With No Comments

About the project Mari, modern Tell Hariri, located in the Middle Euphrates region in Syria is one of the most famous sites in the Near East, and dates from the 3rd to the beginning of the 2nd millennium BCE. The excavations at the most important trench V.1, which was applied as a deep sounding to […]

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