Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (10.1998(1999))

TELL ARBID

SYRIA

ern building. The platform was presum-
ably intended as structural reinforcement
for a possibly sliding slope, a supposition
supported further still by a slightly earlier
retaining wall of pise brick, discovered at
the eastern edge of the same trench. This
latter wall, of a N-S orientation, was over

a meter high and about one meter wide. It
closely resembles the pise structures
unearthed last season on the western slope
of the "citadel" (sector "M") where
a Khabour ware context was also in evi-
dence. 2) It seems that at the beginning of
the 2nd mill. BC, when Arbid was reset-

Fig. 3. Vessels from the G1 burial in trench 36/59
(Drawing L. Rutkowski, Z. Wygnanska)


2’ See PAM IX, Reports 1997 (1998), p. 215. After the 1997 campaign, I had thought that the pise walls in the "M" sec-
tor were part of a 2nd mill. BC defensive structure; however, further investigations have suggested that they were rather
part of a more extensive system of revetment walls.

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