Language:
English
Year of publication:
2023
Titel der Quelle:
Tel Aviv; Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University
Angaben zur Quelle:
49,1 (2022) 115-125
Keywords:
Walls
;
Iron age
;
Aro'er (Israel) Antiquities
;
Negev (Israel) Antiquities, Roman
Abstract:
Tel ʿAroer, situated in the eastern Negev, was excavated by Avraham Biran and Rudolph Cohen, and the excavation report was published by Yifat Thareani. The excavators dated the city-wall that surrounded the site to the Iron II, concluding that ʿAroer was a fortified stronghold in the border of the Judahite kingdom. A fortified tower was built there in the Early Roman period. This paper argues that the city-wall dates to the Early Roman period and that the city-wall and the fortified tower both formed integral parts of the fortifications of the Early Roman settlement.
DOI:
10.1080/03344355.2022.2057024
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