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Inflammatory states usually precede the development of an organ or systemic pathologies. Whether a given infection that causes such a state has a chance to develop, depends on many individual and environmental factors. Post-inflammatory changes can be traced in the osseous material. Therefore, macroscopic, radiological and histological analysis was performed on the upper epiphysis of the right fibula (caput fibulae) with a lesion within the articular surface turned towards the tibia (facies articularis capitis fibulae). The research material came from the excavations led in Tell Masaikh (Syria).

Le site de Tell Masaïkh, sur la rive gauche dans la vallée du moyen Euphrate, en Syrie, a été identifié comme la ville néo-assyrienne de Kar-Assurnasirpal par Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault dans le cadre du projet « Terqa et sa région ». Les fouilles ont mis en évidence une colonie néo-assyrienne de l’âge du Fer II, fondée par le roi assyrien Aššurnaşirpal II (883-859 av. J.-C.) pendant une campagne militaire, avec la structure typique des nouvelles fondations néo-assyrienne. La citadelle, avec son palais, a subi pendant un siècle des modifications profondes liées aux événements politiques qui ont investi l’Empire néo-assyrien, par le gouverneur local Nergal-ēreš et ses successeurs, jusqu’à l’intervention militaire de Tiglath-Phalazar III (745-727 av. J.-C.). L’interprétation des espaces bâtis et la comparaison du site de Tell Masaïkh/Kar-Assurnasirpal avec les autres villes néo-assyriennes ont permis d’analyser les dynamiques d’exploitation des régions conquises par les rois assyriens du point de vue archéologique et historique. À Tell Masaïkh/Kar-Assurnasirpal, les pouvoirs politiques – locaux et impériaux – ont modifié l’urbanisme et le territoire selon la propagande royale et les revendications locales. The site of Tell Masaïkh/Kar-Assurnasirpal, on the left bank of the middle Euphrates in Syria, was identified as a neo-Assyrian city by Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault, in the project “Terqa and her region”. The excavation has shown a colonial city, with its typical neo-Assyrian structure, founded by the king Aššurnaṣirpal II (883-859 BC), during a military campaign in the Iron Age II. The citadel, with its palace, has been modified hardly, due to the political events in the neo-Assyrian Empire, by the local governor Nergal-ēreš and his successors, until king Tiglath-Phalazar III’s (745-727 BC) military intervention. The interpretation of the architectural spaces and the comparison between Tell Masaïkh/Kar-Assurnasirpal and the other neo-Assyrian cities have permitted an analysis of the dynamics of exploitation in the regions conquered by Assyrian kings from an archaeological and historical point of view. At Tell Masaïkh/Kar-Assurnasirpal, local and imperial political powers modified urbanism and the regional environment according to royal propaganda and local claims

Inflammatory states usually precede the development of an organ or systemic pathologies. Whether a given infection that causes such a state has a chance to develop, depends on many individual and environmental factors. Post-inflammatory changes can be traced in the osseous material. Therefore, macroscopic, radiological, and histological analysis was performed on the upper epiphysis of the right fibula (caput fibulae) with a lesion within the articular surface turned towards the tibia (facies articularis capitis fibulae). The research material came from the excavations led in Tell Masaikh (Syria).