Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
קתדרה
Angaben zur Quelle:
177 (תשפא) 9-34
Keywords:
Canaanites Social life and customs
;
Burial History
;
Tombs History
;
Bronze age History
;
Shaddud, Tel (Israel)
;
Emek Yizre'el (Israel) Antiquities
Abstract:
During trial excavations carried out in 2013 onbehalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, a seeminglyisolated clay coffin with anthropoid lid, containinga single primary burial, was uncovered within a6m × 5m probe bordering the lower east slope of TelShaddud in the Jezreel Valley. It lay at the bottomof a tightly constricted burial pit, about 1.8 m belowthe present surface. Less than 3 m to its south-east,a further three burial pits, enclosing four additionalprimary burials, oriented east to west – in conformitywith the coffin burial. Together these burials form partof an apparent Late Bronze Age II–III burial groundat the southern and western margin of Tel Shaddud.The coffin and associated funerary gifts bear astrong resemblance to comparable specimens andassociated funerary assemblages known foremostfrom Deir el-Balah in the Gaza strip and Bet Sheʽanin the Jordan Valley. The shared mortuary aspects ofTel Shaddud and the latter sites indicate a strong linkwith New Kingdom Egypt.Based on the Tel Shaddud data and its verylocation, in combination with selective reading ofrelevant, near-contemporary historic records (i.e. theel-Amarna letters), it is argued here that Tel Shaddudwas a way station, or estate, functioning within theframework of the Egyptian New Kingdom colonizationof the region during the Late Bronze Age II andsucceeding Iron Age I.The coffin burial is apparently related to Egyptianrule in the Jezreel Valley, a rule maintained with thehelp of Canaanite representatives who took care ofEgypt’s interests at a key point along the road from theport of Acre via Tel Shimron (Shimon) to Beit She’an.
Note:
With an English summary.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
