Scholars’ Corner: Is the Solomonic City Gate at Megiddo Really Solomonic?
In the 1930s, a team of archaeologists from the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute uncovered a massive six-chambered city gateway at the great mound of Megiddo. The excavators assigned the gate to the period from 1000-800 B.C.; they ascribed the construction of the gate to King Solomon.1 In...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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1983
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The Biblical archaeology review
Year: 1983, Volume: 9, Issue: 5 |
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| Summary: | In the 1930s, a team of archaeologists from the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute uncovered a massive six-chambered city gateway at the great mound of Megiddo. The excavators assigned the gate to the period from 1000-800 B.C.; they ascribed the construction of the gate to King Solomon.1 In the 1950s and 1960s, excavations at […] |
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| ISSN: | 0098-9444 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Biblical archaeology review
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