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.
Confirmado pelo terrenoSítio escavado9th 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.
- Encontrado
- Tel Dan, northern Israel, 1966 — Avraham Biran's excavation
- Conservado em
- In place, Tel Dan Nature Reserve
- Como chegou até nós
- Escavado, ou ainda de pé onde foi construído.
O que mostra
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.
Como os historiadores o usam
A standard site for Israelite religion and royal cult architecture.
Na Escritura
Ligado a
Fontes
- Biran, Biblical Dan (1994)
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