The dismantled horned altar of Beersheba
A monumental sacrificial altar at a Judahite provincial centre was deliberately dismantled and its stones reused, in the eighth century.
Confirmé par le terrainObjet8th century BC
A large four-horned altar of dressed stone, found not standing but taken apart, its blocks reused in a later wall. Kings describes reforming kings removing the high places and breaking down altars outside Jerusalem.
He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves.
- Découvert
- Tel Beersheba, Israel, 1973 — Yohanan Aharoni's excavation
- Conservé à
- Israel Museum, Jerusalem (reconstructed); replica on site
- Comment il nous est parvenu
- Fouillé, ou encore debout là où il fut bâti.
Ce qu'elle montre
The dismantling is clear from the reuse; tying it to a particular king's reform is an inference from date, and is debated.
Ce qu'en font les historiens
A recurring exhibit in discussion of cult centralisation in Judah.
Dans l'Écriture
Se rattache à
Sources
- Aharoni, "The Horned Altar of Beer-sheba", Biblical Archaeologist 37 (1974)
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