Tel Zeror
תל זרור | |
Sharon Plain | |
Coordinates | 32°25′46″N 34°58′17″E / 32.42931°N 34.971371°E |
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Type | settlement, burial grounds |
Area | 50 dunams/5 hectares |
History | |
Founded | circa 20th century BCE |
Abandoned | 1948 |
Periods | Middle Bronze Age, Late Bronze Age, Iron Age. Persian Period, Hellenistic Period, Roman Period, Byzantine Period. Mameluke Period, Late Islamic Period, Ottoman Period, British Mandate. |
Cultures | Canaanite, Philistine (?) |
Site notes | |
Excavation dates | 1964-1966 |
Archaeologists | Kiyoshi Ohata, Moshe Kochavi |
Public access | yes |
Tel Zeror is an archaeological tel on the Sharon Plain, approximately four km east of Hadera, SE of Kibbutz Gan Shmuel and south of Moshav Talmei Elazar. The tel, unconventionally, has two peaks, and between them is a field. The site is just south of the convergence of three small waterways; the Hadera Stream, Wadi Ara, and Nahal Yitzhak, where they continue westward as the Hadera Stream.
Tel Zeror is sometimes identified with Zrar, a city mentioned in the description of
History
Middle Bronze
The
Tel Zeror seems to have been abandoned from the 18th century BCE, and not resettled until the early 15th century BCE.
Late Bronze
By the
Two types of LB burials were found at the site; graves lined with cut stones that contained burial offerings, and pit burials. In both types, positioning was on the back, facing west. Tentative dating suggests the 13th century BCE.[3]
Iron Age
In the
Iron Age burials in storage jars were found at Tel Zeror.[3]
The site was continually occupied[5] until it was destroyed in the eighth century BCE by the invading Assyrians, and then resettled later in the sixth century BCE.
Hellenistic Period
During the
Byzantine Period
In the
Middle Ages
In the
Archaeology
Tel Zeror was first excavated in 1928 by
References
- ^ a b c Kochavi, Moshe (1992). E.Stern (ed.). האנצקלופדיה החדשה לחפירות ארכיאולוגיות בארץ ישראל [The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land] (in Hebrew). Vol. II. pp. 472–474.
- ^ a b Kochavi, Moshe (1968). "חפירתו של תל זרור בשרון" [The excavation of Tel Zeror in the Sharon] (in Hebrew). Teva vaAretz.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-931464-68-3. Retrieved 15 November 2010.
- ISBN 978-90-6186-019-8. Retrieved 15 November 2010.
- ISBN 978-0-567-02726-9. Retrieved 15 November 2010.
- ISBN 978-1-84127-201-6. Retrieved 15 November 2010.
- S2CID 164034477.
- ISBN 978-0-88920-134-7. Retrieved 15 November 2010.
Further reading
- Nishi Ajia Bunka Iseki Hakkutsu Chōsadan; Nihon Oriento Gakkai (1966). Tel Zeror. Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan.
- Kiyoshi Ohata (1970). Tel Zeror: Report of the excavation, third season, 1966. Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan.
- Dag Oredsson (2000). Moats in ancient Palestine. Almqvist & Wiksell. p. 56. ISBN 978-91-22-01892-6.
- Zeʼev Herzog (1997). Archaeology of the city: urban planning in ancient Israel and its social implications. Emery and Claire Yass Archaeology Press. ISBN 978-965-440-006-0.