2016
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Université Paul-Valéry et al., « L’urbanisme et l’habitat de la ville deZénobia-Halabiya : résultats de la missionfranco-syrienne (2006–10) », HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société), ID : 10.1484/M.BAT-EB.5.111893
The city of Zenobia is well known trough the texts of Procopius, and from the studies of JeanLauffray in the middle of the last century. We present here the contribution of the Syrian-French team, which worked during five seasons on the late proto-Byzantine and earlyUmayyad occupation of the site. We mainly conducted soundings and excavations on threesectors intra muros, revealing a part of the cardo and its colonnade. The new sectors revealthat in later periods of the city, an artisanal or commercial centre, probably intended tosupply the soldiers of the local garrison, took over the so-called forum. A public buildingappeared near the north gate, which could have been a guard-room or a toll-house. In thesouthern part of the city, we excavated a late block of domestic dwellings, whose plan remainsoriginal in the region. We also studied the fortification of the city, and are now able todemonstrate that some of Procopius’s assertions are reliable.