[SunkenCiv]

Excavating at Tel el-Ajjul, Gaza [Peter M. Fischer]

[onedoug]

Before the muslims. Now it’s just another islamist dump.

[TXnMA]

"Tell el-Ajjul, which lies right on the Gazan coast,"

Indeed! It looks as if the photographer is standing on the beach, and the excavators are "cleaning up" a portion of the eroding shoreline.

What's amazing about that (despite the clickbait title) is that the site has been known since at least 1930 -- and the site-rapers haven't eradicated it, looking for salable "stuff"!

I'd guess that most of the "goodies" pictured were from Petrie's excavations...

Thanks!

[squarebarb]

thank you Sunkenciv!

That ‘medallion’ looks to me like the discs used on bridles of chariot horses. They were used right at the end of the bit to put pressure on the horse’s mouth to turn right or left. The projections were inward. You can see photos of them in David Gregory’s book.

Weren’t the original Gazan people thought to be a group of Indo-European steppe people that penetrated the middle east?