Ḥurvat ՙEres: A Fourth-Century BCE Fortress West of Jerusalem
Ḥurvat ՙEres is a small fort located on a high ridge in the Judaean Hills, north of Kiryat Yeՙarim. The paper includes a report on a small-scale excavation conducted by the authors at this site. The square fortress includes a large open space, rooms on the east and south and a protruding tower on th...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2015
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Israel exploration journal
Year: 2015, Volume: 65, Issue: 2, Pages: 214-244 |
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| Summary: | Ḥurvat ՙEres is a small fort located on a high ridge in the Judaean Hills, north of Kiryat Yeՙarim. The paper includes a report on a small-scale excavation conducted by the authors at this site. The square fortress includes a large open space, rooms on the east and south and a protruding tower on the west. It was probably used for a short time in the fourth century BCE as part of a network of fortresses in the province of Yehud. The meagre finds from the excavations include mainly pottery sherds. An exceptional find is a rare bronze fibula of a Balkan/Italian type. The architecture, pottery, date and significance of this fortress for the research of the Persian period are discussed in this paper. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Israel exploration journal
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