The high place at Dan
A major state sanctuary stood at Dan in the period of the northern kingdom, on the scale of a royal cult centre.
Confirmé par le terrainSite fouillé9th century BC
A large open-air platform of dressed stone with a monumental stairway and an altar precinct, at the northern edge of Israel. 1 Kings says Jeroboam set up a golden calf at Bethel and another at Dan, and "made an house of high places".
And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.
- Découvert
- Tel Dan, northern Israel, 1966 — Avraham Biran's excavation
- Conservé à
- In place, Tel Dan Nature Reserve
- Comment il nous est parvenu
- Fouillé, ou encore debout là où il fut bâti.
Ce qu'elle montre
The platform is a sanctuary; no inscription names Jeroboam or a calf. The identification with the biblical cult centre rests on place, date and scale.
Ce qu'en font les historiens
A standard site for Israelite religion and royal cult architecture.
Dans l'Écriture
Se rattache à
Sources
- Biran, Biblical Dan (1994)
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