Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (10.1998(1999))

TELL ARBID

SYRIA

TELL ARBID
PRELIMINARY REPORT, 1998
Piotr Bielinski

The third season of the joint Syro-Polish Archaeological Expedition to Tell Arbid took place in the
fall of 1998.2>
The main goal of the campaign was to explore the 3rd mill. BC sequence of occupational strata
on the so-called citadel of Arbid paying special attention to the ceramic sequence of the Ninevite 5

The staff of the expedition included archaeologists, Messrs. Andrzej Reiche, Rafal Kolinski, Dariusz Szelag, Lukasz
Rutkowski, Ms. Anna Smogorzewska, all from Warsaw University's Centre of Archaeology, as well as Mr. David Nelson
Gimbel from Wolfson College (University of Oxford) and finally the two expedition co-directors: Ahmed Serriye and Piotr
Bielinski. Also participating were two students of archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology of Warsaw University:
Miss Joanna Lorynowicz and Mrs. ZuzannaWygnanska.
Over the course of the season the expedition profited as usual from the constant help (including considerable financial con-
tribution) and friendly support of the DGAM in general and its Director General, Prof. Dr. Sultan Muheisen, in particular.
We also feel much in debt to the staff of the Regional Directorate of Antiquities in Hassake and chiefly to its Director, Mr.
Abed Abdel Messih Bardo.
This year we received important financial support also from the Harvard Semitic Museum, the BIG Bank in Warsaw and
the Michatowski Foundation. To all these institutions I wish to express our deep gratitude for their invaluable help.

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