New Light on the Early Iron Age at Tell Beit Mirsim
Tell Beit Mirsim was continuously, albeit sparsely, settled during the 13th-11th centuries B. C., and may provide a key to the understanding of this period in the southern Shephelah. Albright, identifying the site with Debir, suggested a Canaanite-Israelite-Philistine sequence for Strata C2-B1-B2. T...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1987
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Bulletin of ASOR
Year: 1987, Volume: 265, Pages: 55-80 |
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| Summary: | Tell Beit Mirsim was continuously, albeit sparsely, settled during the 13th-11th centuries B. C., and may provide a key to the understanding of this period in the southern Shephelah. Albright, identifying the site with Debir, suggested a Canaanite-Israelite-Philistine sequence for Strata C2-B1-B2. The stratigraphic and ceramic evidence, some of it previously unpublished, is here reexamined. We show that the spatial organization and architecture of the Iron I strata do not resemble those of sites identified as Israelite or Philistine, and that the pottery of these strata is fundamentally in the Canaanite tradition. Within this tradition, an influx of new forms and techniques is observed in Stratum B2. These are closely associated with Lachish Stratum VI, and it is suggested that Tell Beit Mirsim may have served as a haven for bearers of the Lachish pottery-making tradition, after that site was destroyed around 1150 B. C. |
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| ISSN: | 2161-8062 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American Schools of Oriental Research, Bulletin of ASOR
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/1356807 |