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<< Sites under Threat >> Shadikanni - Ancient Village or Settlement in Syria

Submitted by bat400 on Friday, 06 June 2014  Page Views: 3894

Site WatchSite Name: Shadikanni Alternative Name: Tell Ajaja
Country: Syria Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Hasakeh
Latitude: 36.208140N  Longitude: 40.720620E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Ancient Settlement in Syria.
Ruins of the Assyrian provincial capital Shadikanni on the Khabur River.

"Gaston Maspero, the 19th century French archaeologist, wrote that in the ninth century BCE the palaces of Shadikanni “were decorated with winged bulls, lions, stelae, and bas reliefs carved in marble brought from the hills of Singar.”

Sources: Times of Israel, and APSA2011 - Project Syria Heritage (archive link). See the comment below.

Note: Radical Islamists take hammer to Syrian artifacts
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Radical Islamists take hammer to Syrian artifacts by bat400 on Friday, 06 June 2014
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant fighters smash 3,000-year-old Assyrian statue in latest act of cultural genocide
Fighters with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, a radical militia that controls a large swath of eastern Syria, confiscated and destroyed illegally excavated antiquities from an ancient Mesopotamian site.

In an act of cultural genocide strikingly similar to the Taliban’s demolition of the Buddhas of Bamiyan in 2001, the ISIL fighters appear – in pictures recently uploaded by a group working to protect Syria’s rich historical heritage — to smash a 3,000-year-old Neo-Assyrian statue illegally removed from a nearby archaeological site. Another image shows a man placing his foot — an act of disrespect in Arab culture — on the face of the Assyrian statue before its destruction.

Last month, the Syrian antiquities authority said in a statement that it had received notice that artifacts that “appear to be the result of an unauthorized digging” had been plundered from Tell Ajaja, the ruins of the Assyrian provincial capital Shadikanni on the Khabur River, a tributary of the Euphrates.

At least one of the items photographed and published by the Association for the Preservation of Syrian Archaeology appeared among those recently confiscated by ISIL.

The pictures, taken in Syria’s far eastern Hasakeh Province, were also said to be of artifacts removed from Tell Ajaja. The site lies approximately 30 kilometers (18 miles) south of the modern provincial capital of Hasakeh and 50 kilometers (30 miles) from the Iraqi border.

It was not immediately clear from the photographs whether the statue that was smashed was genuine. A Tel Aviv Assyriologist who preferred anonymity said that, based on the photos, the statue appeared to be authentic, “although it could be a copy placed outside the museum [in Hasakeh],” he added with due caution.

Gaston Maspero, the 19th century French archaeologist, wrote that in the ninth century BCE the palaces of Shadikanni “were decorated with winged bulls, lions, stelae, and bas reliefs carved in marble brought from the hills of Singar.” Similar artifacts appear to be among those recently plundered.

The looting and destruction of antiquities from Tell Ajaja is part of a terrible tragedy that has befallen Syria’s ancient heritage as the result of the three-year-old civil war ravaging the country. The New York Times recently reported that illegal excavations have accelerated and that the country’s six UNESCO World Heritage sites are now listed as endangered. But Syria, which lies in the Fertile Crescent and houses remains from over 5,000 years of human civilization, is riddled with lesser-known archaeological sites — some of which haven’t been excavated because they were, until recently, entirely unknown.

The destruction of Assyrian antiquities was not the first assault against Syrian archaeological treasures committed by ISIL. In January 2014, the radical Islamist group blew up and destroyed a pristine Roman-style sixth-century Byzantine mosaic near the city of Raqqa, the Independent reported. Syria analyst Aymenn al-Tamimi, one of those who tweeted the images of ISIL smashing the idols in Hasakeh, also shared a photo of the Islamists taking a bulldozer to a statue outside a Raqqa museum. It’s not certain whether or not the lion statue was authentic.

“You don’t need an expert to tell you that it is terrible, because every artifact contributes to our understanding of the past, the more so when it bears an inscription,” Jack Sasson, professor of classics and Jewish studies at Vanderbilt University, told The Times of Israel.

ISIS’s increasingly powerful hold over the eastern half of Syria and the western provinces of Iraq may prove fatal for the region’s already threatened archaeological remains.

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