Tell Jemmeh
Tell Jemmeh is an archaeological site near Re'im , Israel . The Tell is on the river Besor , 10 km south of Gaza . The Besor is perhaps to be equated with the "brook of Egypt" in the Bible and, in Assyrian inscriptions, with Nahal Mušur .
The name of the square changed from Yurza in the late Bronze Age (attribution controversial) to Arza under the Assyrians, its current name. William Flinders Petrie , who was the first excavator to explore Tell in 1927-28, mistook it for the location of the biblical Gerar . The Smithsonian Institution, under the direction of Gus W. van Beek , carried out extensive excavations from 1970 to 1990. The publication was completed after his death (2012) by the Israeli archaeologist David Ben-Shlomo in 2014.
Tell was continuously settled for at least 1400 years: during the Middle and Late Bronze Age (approx. 1800–1200 BC), the Iron Age (1200–520) and the Persian Age (520–340 BC). A richly furnished courtyard house was excavated from the Late Bronze Age, a well-preserved pottery furnace from the Iron Age and a complete granary from the Persian period.
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literature
- Ruth Amiran , Gus W. van Beek : Article “Jemmeh, Tell”. In: Michael Avi-Yonah (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land 2. Jerusalem 1976, pp. 547 f.
- Gus W. van Beek: Digging up Tell Jemmeh. In: Archeology 36 (1983), pp. 12-19.
- David Ben-Shlomo, Gus W. van Beek (eds.): The Smithsonian Institution Excavation at Tell Jemmeh, Israel, 1970–1990. (Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology 50.) Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press: Washington, DC 2014. online
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Coordinates: 31 ° 23 ′ 15 " N , 34 ° 26 ′ 41" E