To Explore the Land of Canaan by Aren M. Maeir George A. Pierce

Author:Aren M. Maeir, George A. Pierce
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2021-09-24T11:49:43.394000+00:00

Notes

1 Authors are responsible for the following sections: SG-A for the Tell eṣ-Ṣâfī/Gath, Area C, tower; MH-S for Tell eṣ-Ṣâfī/Gath, Area A, and drawings; LAH for overall comments and on the Tell eṣ-Ṣâfī/Gath tower; AMM for Tell eṣ-Ṣâfī/Gath and overall comments; PM for Pantalica; LP for Sardinia. It is with great pleasure we present this article to our dear friend and colleague Jeffrey Chadwick whose interest in architectural planning and modularity in the biblical world (e.g., Chadwick 2020) resonates strongly with Hitchcock’s (1997: esp. 246–47, no. 20 on the pitfalls of metrology) and Militello’s (2017) interests in modularity, architectural planning, and design in Minoan Crete and in Sicily. LAH’s research was funded by the University of Melbourne’s Special Studies and Universal Grant Program. LAH’s and PM’s research was further supported by the University of Catania, the University of Heidelberg, and the DAAD.

2 For the early (Iron IB) phase of the gate in Area D East, see Maeir (2020a).

3 However, for an alternative interpretation assigning the blocks to layer C6-2a dated to the Iron IIA period, see Gur-Arieh and Maeir (2020).

4 This lower, earlier wall is W20A70C03.

5 The pry hole measures L 16 x W 6 x Depth 5 cm. This large block has both Iron I and Iron II ceramics associated with it, making the date uncertain (Gur-Arieh and Maeir 2020: esp. 184). It is also possible that the stone was reused. A similar parallel can be found in the tower at Maa-Palaeokastro on Cyprus, one of two ashlar buildings on the site built of reused stone (e.g. Karagheorghis and Demas 1988). Other examples of early pry holes have been detected on Cyprus at Hala Sultan Tekke and at Kouklia-Palaepaphos (Hitchcock 2020b: 231–32, 239–42).

6 An exception is found in the nearby Balearic Islands and Iberia (Holt 2014 on the architecture), which may have been involved further afield in the tin trade with Cornwall (see Berger et al. 2019).

7 The similarity takes the form of horned helmets, though the horns are placed in the front of the helmet on “bronzetti,” and carrying a shield and a spear. It should be noted that the “greaves” on the Ingot god were not greaves and instead represent a repair and the ingot represents a later addition (e.g., Papasavvas 2011a, 2011b).

8 Zertal’s (2011) claim that el Ahwat’s architecture has connections to Sardinian (and the Shardanu) Nuraghe and successive Sardinian architectural forms seems strained and has been critiqued by Finkelstein and Piasetzky (2007).

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