Canaan’s Earliest Corbelled Vault
Archaeologists excavating at Tel Shimron in northern Israel were astonished to discover a corbel-vaulted passage-way dating to the Middle Bronze Age (c. 2000-1550 BCE). This construction technique, in which layered bricks are stacked in an inward-stepped fashion to create a gradually narrowing ceili...
| Format: | Electronic Article |
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| Language: | English |
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Biblical Archaeology Society
2024
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| In: |
The Biblical archaeology review
Year: 2024, Volume: 50, Issue: 1 |
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| Summary: | Archaeologists excavating at Tel Shimron in northern Israel were astonished to discover a corbel-vaulted passage-way dating to the Middle Bronze Age (c. 2000-1550 BCE). This construction technique, in which layered bricks are stacked in an inward-stepped fashion to create a gradually narrowing ceiling, is well known from sites in Mesopotamia, but Shimron’s corbelled passageway is […] |
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| ISSN: | 0098-9444 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Biblical archaeology review
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