RT Article
T1 Shemer's Estate
JF Bulletin of ASOR
VO 277/278
SP 93
OP 107
A1 Stager, Lawrence E. 1943-2017
LA English
YR 1990
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1789832799
AB The Joint Expedition to Samaria dated bedrock installations to Early Bronze I and postulated a gap in occupation until the early ninth century B. C., when King Omri established his capital there. It is suggested that the score of olive- and winepresses cut into the bedrock summit were really part of Shemer's (or better, the Shomron family's) estate, which had been in the family since at least Iron I and included not only the center for processing oil and wine, but also the terraced olive- and vineyards that girdled the slopes. Because Samaria I-II pottery spans the 11th and 10th centuries B. C., this site should not be used to lower the Iron Age chronology for other sites in the Levant, Cyprus, or the Aegean.
DO 10.2307/1357375