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.
Imethibitishwa na ardhiEneo lililofukuliwa9th 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.
- Kilipatikana
- Tel Dan, northern Israel, 1966 — Avraham Biran's excavation
- Kinahifadhiwa
- In place, Tel Dan Nature Reserve
- Jinsi kilivyotufikia
- Kimefukuliwa, au bado kimesimama pale kilipojengwa.
Kinachoonyesha
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.
Jinsi wanahistoria wanavyokitumia
A standard site for Israelite religion and royal cult architecture.
Katika Maandiko
Kinahusiana na
Vyanzo
- Biran, Biblical Dan (1994)
Kwa sasa maelezo haya yapo kwa Kiingereza. Tafsiri zitafuata.