Gilat

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Gilat is a low hill in the Negev desert in Israel with one of the few Chalcolithic sanctuaries in the southern Levant . In 1975 David Alon found the Gilat woman , a Stone Age pottery in the shape of a woman with a vessel on her head, in a building that could have been a temple .

literature

  • David Alon: Two cult vessels from Gilat . In: Atiqot 11, 1976, pp. 116-118.
  • Nili Sacher Fox: The Striped Goddess from Gilat: Implications for the Chalcolithic Cult . In: Israel Exploration Journal Vol. 45, 4, 1995, pp. 212-225.
  • Alexander H. Joffe, JP Dessel, Rachel S. Hallote: The “Gilat Women”. Female Iconography, Chalcolithic Cult, and the End of Southern Levantine Prehistory . In: Near Easter Archeology Vol. 64, 1/2, 2001, pp. 8-23 ( digitized version ).