The Casemate Wall, the Four Room House, and Early Planning in the Israelite City
The casemate wall, the "four room house" and its subtypes, and the Israelite city plan in the Iron Age are interdependent developments both architecturally and chronologically. Recent discoveries at Israelite Settlement Period and Iron I sites enable us to investigate these elements back t...
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| Language: | English |
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The University of Chicago Press
1987
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Bulletin of ASOR
Year: 1987, Volume: 268, Pages: 3-15 |
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| Summary: | The casemate wall, the "four room house" and its subtypes, and the Israelite city plan in the Iron Age are interdependent developments both architecturally and chronologically. Recent discoveries at Israelite Settlement Period and Iron I sites enable us to investigate these elements back to the 12th century B. C. and no longer to restrict discussion to Iron II. Residential structures during the Settlement Period formed a belt encircling the site; this arrangement evolved into the composite settlement pattern, with residential structures of standardized plan and a casemate wall. This pattern suggests mutual influence in the architectural development of these elements, which originated in Palestine. The same elements later contributed to formation of the typical pattern of the Israelite provincial city, particularly the outer ring of buildings. In royal centers, the casemate wall is an independent unit, but it incorporates fortresses and palaces. This combined pattern starts to appear in the 12th-11th centuries B. C. and reaches its fullest development in the tenth. Its reappearance in eighth-century site plans, demonstrates that it was not a random configuration but a customary pattern characteristic of planning principles in many types of Israelite cities. |
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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: 10.2307/1356991 |