ASOR Syrian Heritage Initiative (SHI): Planning for Safeguarding Heritage Sites in Syria - Weekly Report 1 (August 11, 2014)

Author(s): Michael D. Danti

Year: 2014

Summary

Weekly Report 1 encompasses July 20, 2014 to August 10, 2014. Also included are Incident Reports SHI 14-001, SHI 14-002, SHI 14-003, SHI 14-004, SHI 14-005, and SHI 14-006.

This report contains a Heritage Timeline describing events involving the destruction of heritage sites in Syria. During the reporting period, Islamic State (IS formerly ISIS or ISIL) made substantial territorial gains in northern Syria and northern Iraq and continued to exert pressure on Baghdad and the Aleppo-­Damascus corridor. Islamic State activities in the Tigris watershed sparked a humanitarian crisis as thousands of members of religious minorities fled into the mountains or to the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

Cite this Record

ASOR Syrian Heritage Initiative (SHI): Planning for Safeguarding Heritage Sites in Syria - Weekly Report 1 (August 11, 2014), 001. Michael D. Danti. 2014 ( tDAR id: 447767) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8447767

Keywords

Site Name
Ancient City of Aleppo • Bab al-­Nasri • Dabiq • Hammam al-­Souk • Kafar Takhareem • Kefr Takharim • Kfar Takharam • Maqam Ibrahim Salihin • Noria al-­J’berihe • Sufi Maqam (shrine) of Abd Allah ibn Mesaf' al-­Qoureshi • Tomb of Umayyad caliph Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd

Site Type
Church / Religious Structure • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Historic Structure • Non-Domestic Structures • Road • Road, Trail, and Related Structures or Features • Settlements • Structure • Tomb • Town / City

Investigation Types
Heritage Management

Geographic Keywords
17th Division Base, Raqqa • 21st Brigade Base, Hassakeh • 93rd Brigade Base, Ain Aissa • Aleppo, Syria • al-­Haddadin Mosque • al-­Maidani Mosque • al-­Otrush Mosque • Banqusa Mosque • Dabiq, Syria • Damascus • Deir ez-­Zor • Deraa, Syria • Euphrates Valley • Hama, Syria • Hammam Yalbugha • Hassakah, Syria • Homs Governate • Idlib Governate • Kafr Takharim, Syria • Khabur, Syria • Khan as-­Shouna • Kuweiris Airbase • Latakia, Syria • Madrasa al-­Khusruwiye • Madrasa as-­Sahibiyah • Madrasa as-­Sultaniye • Mosque al-­Fustuq • Mosul, Iraq • Nineveh Plain • Raqqa, Syria • Sahabia Mosque • Sinjar, Syria Show More

Temporal Keywords
Ottoman Period

Spatial Coverage

min long: 35.793; min lat: 32.136 ; max long: 42.429; max lat: 36.982 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Prepared By(s): American Schools of Oriental Research

Record Identifiers

Weekly Report(s): NEA-PSHSS-14-001

Incident Report(s): SHI 14-003; SHI 14-005; SHI 14-006; SHI 14-002; SHI 14-001; SHI 14-004

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