Abstract
AbstractThe aim is to evaluate to what extent the west city gate of Qatna in Syria is a parallel to the gateway of the Nitovikla fortress in Cyprus in the use of ashlar masonry and drafted margins, as adduced by E. Sjoqvist. A dating of the Qatna gate is also attempted, based on its architecture compared with other Syro-Palestinian city gates. The result is that the Nitovikla gateway, probably built c. 1500 B.C., may be c. 100 years older than the Qatna city gate, which in this paper is dated to the late fifteenth or early fourteenth century B.C. Their architectural traits are not very close; what they have in common are the general architectural styles and techniques characteristic of the Middle to Late Bronze Age in the eastern Mediterranean.
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