Megiddo's gates and stables
Megiddo, Hazor and Gezer all carry monumental gates and fortifications from the early Iron Age.
Fakakikihi'iFeitu'u kuo keli10th–9th century BC
A fortified city with a six-chambered gate, a water tunnel cut to a spring outside the wall, and long pillared buildings once read as stables for hundreds of horses. 1 Kings lists Megiddo with Hazor and Gezer among Solomon's building projects, and speaks of his chariot cities.
And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build… Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
- Na'e 'ilo'i
- Tel Megiddo, Israel, 1925 — University of Chicago Oriental Institute; renewed by Tel Aviv University
- 'Oku tauhi 'i
- In place, a UNESCO World Heritage site
- Na'e a'u mai fēfē kiate kitautolu
- Na'e keli hake, pe 'oku kei tu'u 'i he potu na'e langa ai.
Ko e me'a 'oku ne fakahā
The buildings are real; their date is one of the sharpest disputes in the field. The traditional tenth-century (Solomonic) dating is contested by a "low chronology" that puts them a century later under the Omrides. The pillared buildings may be stables or storehouses.
Founga hono ngāue'aki 'e he kau hisitōlia
The type-site of the Iron Age chronology debate; both sides publish on the same stratigraphy.
'I he Folofola
Fekau'aki mo
Ngaahi ma'u'anga fakamatala
- Finkelstein, Ussishkin & Halpern, Megiddo III–V excavation reports
'Oku 'i he lea faka-Pilitānia 'a e ngaahi fakamatala ko 'eni he taimi ni. 'E muimui mai 'a e liliu.