Tell Hadar

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Tell Hadar
Sheikh Chader[1]
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Tell Hadar is located in the Golan Heights
Tell Hadar
Shown within the Golan Heights
Tell Hadar is located in Syria
Tell Hadar
Tell Hadar (Syria)
Alternative nameSheikh Khadr, Tel Hadar
RegionNE shore of the Sea of Galilee, foot of Golan Heights
Coordinates32°51′03″N 35°38′59″E / 32.8508°N 35.6496°E / 32.8508; 35.6496
TypeSettlement
Site notes
ArchaeologistsMoshe Kochavi and Pirhiya Beck (1987–1998 digs)
Public accessyes

Tell Hadar

Aramean kingdom, possibly Geshur; a planned city, granaries, and possibly other storage facilities, were constructed.[4][5] In the 9th century BC the wall was discarded. An excavation revealed two buildings sharing one wall.[6]

New Testament connection

Christians connect the site at Tell Hadar with Jesus' second miracle of the multiplication of loaves and fishes narrated in the Gospels of Matthew and Mark, known as the Feeding of the 4,000. A monument built of a raw local basalt boulder decorated with Christian inscriptions and images was erected near the archaeological site. [7][8]

Archaeology

Tell Hadar was excavated in 1987-1998 by Moshe Kochavi and Pirhiya Beck as part of the wider "Land of Geshur Regional Project."[3] It is a relatively small and well-stratified mound of great importance for the research of cultural interactions between Syria and the southern Levant in the Bronze and Iron Ages.[3] It also helped understanding the chronology of the Eastern Mediterranean in the early first millennium BCE.[3]

The

Iron Age IIB and their excavation yielded rich finds including architectural remains.[3]

Shards of early Arabic pottery has been found at the site.[1]

Iron Age I

Of crucial importance is a massive early-10th-century BCE (

Early Iron Age in the southern Levant and beyond it.[3]

Iron Age II

Tell Hadar is considered to be a town of the Kingdom of

Syro-Anatolian culture.[3]

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 978-0-89870-865-3
    . Retrieved 2024-03-03.
  2. ISBN 978-1-134-15908-6
    . Retrieved 2024-03-03.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Tel Hadar: A Bronze and Iron Age Community in the Central Levant: The Moshe Kochavi and Pirhiya Beck Excavations (1987–1998)". The Shelby White and Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications, Harvard University. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
  4. ^ Kochavi, Moshe. עונת החפירות האחרונה בתל עין-גב – סיום פרויקט ארץ גשור [The last excavation season at Tel 'En Gev - the end of the Land of Geshur Project] (in Hebrew). Israel Antiquities Authority. Retrieved 2014-07-29.
  5. ISBN 0195112156
    .
  6. ISBN 0664221483.[dead link
    ]
  7. ^ Alfonso Sánchez de Lamadrid Rey (August 12, 2021). "Gospel miracles: the second multiplication of the loaves and fishes". In Omnes magazine, Madrid. Accessed 29 Feb 2024.
  8. ^ Amanda Borschel-Dan (4 September 2019). "Mosaic near Sea of Galilee may mark new site for Jesus loaves and fishes miracle". In Times of Israel. Accessed 29 Feb 2024.

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