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UIDB/04666/2020 UIDP/04666/2020 Tell el-Farʽa, situated some 11 km northeast of the West Bank city of Nablus, on the central mountains of Palestine, was identified in 1931, by the north American orientalist William Albright, as the ancient city of Tirzah. Nowadays, this hypothetical identification became dominant. Fifteen years later, beginning in 1946, the École biblique et archéologique française, of Jerusalem, under the supervision of the Dominican father Roland de Vaux, undertook nine archaeological seasons at Tell el-Farʽa. The work, conducted by the French team, has led to identification of seven major periods, from PrePottery Neolithic to Iron Age. After a long period of archaeological inactivity, since 1961, Tell el-Farʽa has become again the centre of a research project, coordinated by an international team with University of A Coruña, NOVA University, Lisbon, the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, Palestine, through the Department of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage. In 2017 and 2018, the two first campaigns took place and in October 2019 the third season had the surveying the wadi el-Farʽa and surrounding areas in order to understand the regional settlements and the political and economic influence of ancient Tell el-Farʽa between the Chalcolithic and Iron Age; study of toponymy of Tell el-Farʽa and its region; and restoration and valorisation of an Iron Age house excavated by the École biblique team in 1951. following objectives: studying architecture, material culture and absolute dating concerning Iron Age; publishersversion published

Com a ascensão ao trono de Šuppiluliuma I (c. 1350 a.C.), o reino de Ḫatti tornou-se numa das grandes potências do Próximo Oriente no Bronze Final. Ao destruir o reino de Mitani, o seu rival na Mesopotâmia setentrional, o monarca hitita absorveu a maioria dos seus territórios do norte da Síria, estendendo o seu domínio desde a margem oeste do Eufrates até à costa mediterrânea. A presença hitita nesse território está patente não apenas nas tabuinhas cuneiformes que relatam os aspectos político-militares, como na cultura material encontrada no registo arqueológico. Na corrente dissertação pretende-se correlacionar as fontes históricas com os achados arqueológicos de modo a compreender o impacto da presença hitita nos reinos vassalos sírios e as suas repercussões nas esferas administrativa, religiosa, arquitectónica e artística. Tenciona-se igualmente analisar a natureza do imperialismo hitita e as diferentes adaptações ao seu domínio nos vários reinos vassalos. Este estudo serve como contribuição para a compreensão dos diversos mecanismos do poder imperial adoptados por Ḫatti numa das regiões integrantes do seu império. With the ascension of Šuppiluliuma I (c. 1350 B.C.E.) to the throne, the kingdom of Ḫatti became one of the most powerful realms of the Ancient Near East in the Late Bronze Age. By destroying their enemy’s reign Mitanni in northern Mesopotamia, the hittite monarch incorporated most of their territories of northern Syria, expanding his domain from the Euphrates river in the west to the mediterranean coast in the east. The hittite presence in this territory is not only perceptible in the cuneiform tablets, which reports the political-military aspects, but also in the material culture found in the archaeological record. This dissertation seeks to correlate the historical sources with the archaeological findings in order to comprehend the impact of the hittite presence in the syrian vassal kingdoms and their repercussions in the administrative, religious, architectural and artistic spheres. It also intendeds to analyze the nature of the hittite imperialism and the different adaptations of the various vassal kingdoms to its domain. This study is a contribution to the comprehension of the numerous mechanisms of the imperial power endorsed by Ḫatti in one of the regions integrated in its empire.