The burning of Hazor
Hazor was the largest Canaanite city in the region and was destroyed by fire in the Late Bronze Age, with its statues mutilated.
ОспариваетсяРаскопки13th century BC
The largest tell in the country, with a Canaanite city of some eighty hectares destroyed by a fire fierce enough to vitrify mudbrick. Statues of gods and kings in the palace were deliberately decapitated. Joshua says of Hazor alone among the northern cities that Israel "burnt it with fire", and calls it "the head of all those kingdoms".
For Hazor beforetime was the head of all those kingdoms… and he burnt Hazor with fire.
- Найдено
- Tel Hazor, upper Galilee, Israel, 1955 — Yigael Yadin's excavation; renewed under Amnon Ben-Tor
- Хранится
- In place; finds in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
- Как это дошло до нас
- Раскопано или до сих пор стоит там, где было построено.
Что она показывает
The destruction is not in doubt. Who caused it — Israelites, Sea Peoples, Egyptians, or a rival Canaanite city — is genuinely argued, and the date does not fit every proposed chronology of the conquest.
Как это используют историки
A central site in the debate over the end of the Bronze Age in Canaan; excavators differ openly on the destroyer.
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Источники
- Ben-Tor, Hazor: Canaanite Metropolis, Israelite City (2016)
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