The Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods at Tel Dor
Around 500 BCE, during a period of Sidonian rule, the tell of Dor was occupied for the first time in over 100 years. Despite the gap in the site’s occupation, the new residents were aware of and, in some cases seem to have exploited, late Iron Age structures. Two occupational sequences on the tell,...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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2024
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Images in transition
Year: 2024, Pages: 41-69 |
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Tel Dor
B Persian Period B Early Hellenistic Period |
| Summary: | Around 500 BCE, during a period of Sidonian rule, the tell of Dor was occupied for the first time in over 100 years. Despite the gap in the site’s occupation, the new residents were aware of and, in some cases seem to have exploited, late Iron Age structures. Two occupational sequences on the tell, one overlooking the southern harbor and the other in the eastern area that includes the main city gate, show that during the 5th century BCE, houses and streets were constructed in a way that followed the old contours of the tell, while incorporating some new elements of design. In the 4th century BCE, elaboration of houses and streets left the site effectively unfortified. From the beginning of this period, the inhabitants at Dor looked out toward the Mediterranean for a rich array of imported objects and imagery. The conquest of Alexander in the 330s BCE marked the political transition from Achaemenid to Macedonian rule, but Dor does not appear to have been immediately affected. The southern and eastern occupational sequences on the tell both indicate that major architectural changes appear only two generations later. Numismatic evidence ties the new monumental constructions to the reign of Ptolemy II (r. 285–246 BCE), who, around the time of the First Syrian War, turned Dor into a strategic military site by constructing a major city wall, artillery towers, and a large building complex for apparently related purposes. Dor’s fortunes were changed by these actions, with the result that the site was besieged during two different Successor skirmishes that occurred in the later 3rd and mid 2nd centuries BCE. A variety of images, including the ideologically-charged coins of the Ptolemies, are part of daily life in early Hellenistic Dor, but images never again reach the scale and scope seen in the Persian period. |
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| Physical Description: | 9 Illustrationen (schwarz-weiß) |
| ISBN: | 9042954418 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Images in transition
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