Language:
English
Year of publication:
2023
Titel der Quelle:
Atiqot
Angaben zur Quelle:
112 (2023) 35-52
Keywords:
Bronze age
;
Games
;
Tel Nagila (Israel) Antiquities
Abstract:
This paper presents a cache of 31 astragali from the site of Tel Nagila, dating to the Middle Bronze Age. This is the earliest known cache of astragali from the Southern Levant outside tombs, and may be the forebearer of the later caches found in cultic contexts in the Late Bronze and Iron Ages. This paper presents the context in which the cache was found, adjacent to a tower that functioned as part of the site’s fortifications; the social mechanisms behind the use of astragali; their deposition in a cache; and how the cache may have related to the function of the context in which it was found.
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