Khirbet Qeiyafa, a fortified town about 1000 BC
A fortified town with urban planning existed in the Judahite hill country around 1000 BC, in the valley 1 Samuel names.
СпірнеРозкопкиc. 1020–980 BC
A small walled town with casemate walls and two gates, occupied briefly around 1000 BC and then abandoned — so its layer is unusually clean. No pig bones, no cult statues, and an inked ostracon in an early alphabetic script were found in it. It looks across the valley where 1 Samuel sets David and Goliath.
And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them.
- Знайдено
- Overlooking the Elah valley, Israel, 2007 — Yosef Garfinkel and Saar Ganor's excavation
- Зберігається
- In place; finds in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
- Як це дійшло до нас
- Розкопане або досі стоїть там, де його збудували.
Що вона показує
The dating is secure by radiocarbon; almost everything else is argued — whether the town is Judahite, Philistine or Canaanite, whether it is the biblical Shaaraim, and what the ostracon says. It bears on the debate about a tenth-century state, and does not settle it.
Як це використовують історики
One of the most debated excavations of the last twenty years, argued in the mainstream journals from both sides.
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Джерела
- Garfinkel & Ganor, Khirbet Qeiyafa Vol. 1 (2009); Finkelstein & Fantalkin, Tel Aviv 39 (2012)
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