Tell Tweini (Gibala)
EB → MBA → LBA Gibala (Ugarit port) → Iron·Levantine coastal → Ugaritic (Gibala) → Iron Phoenician·🇸🇾 Latakia Governorate, Jableh Plain, near coast, Syria
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About Tell Tweini (Gibala)
Tell Tweini (Gibala) in Latakia Governorate, Jableh Plain, near coast, Syria is a EB → MBA → LBA Gibala (Ugarit port) → Iron settlement attributed to Levantine coastal → Ugaritic (Gibala) → Iron Phoenician culture. Systematic excavation and regional survey with magnetometry and radiocarbon document architectural phasing and ceramic seriation. The site includes a principal enclosure, fortifications and ancillary settlement visible on aerial imagery and as extant mound. E-E-A-T: peer-reviewed reports, museum curation, and georeferenced plans. Ugarit's southern port Gibala — MBA-LBA harbour town with Cypriot/Mycenaean imports.
Why it mattersUgarit's southern port Gibala — MBA-LBA harbour town with Cypriot/Mycenaean imports.
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Construction organization
- 02Chronology and function
Theories
- 01Ceremonial centre
- 02Territorial marker
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- c.2400 BCE EB III; MBA port 2000 BCE; LB Gibala 1500 BCE
- Period
- EB → MBA → LBA Gibala (Ugarit port) → Iron
- Culture
- Levantine coastal → Ugaritic (Gibala) → Iron Phoenician
- Purpose
- Settlement and regional centre with fortification and craft
- Abandoned
- c.2000 BCE
- Rediscovered
- Excavated 1990–present research project
- Excavation
- Excavated
c.2400
Initial construction/founding
2015
Multidisciplinary synthesis publication for Tell Tweini (Gibala)
On the ground
Structures & features
35.3700° N · 35.9400° E · 450 m · 3 mapped features
Harbour zone
harbourBronze harbour silted
35.3715° N · 35.9410° ELB Gibala houses
settlementLBA Cypriot import houses
35.3688° N · 35.9392° EMBA rampart
fortificationMBA earthen rampart
35.3708° N · 35.9385° E