Unique 5,000-year-old Pots Found at Biblical Gezer in 1934 Are Finally Revealed

Haaretz ^ | January 21, 2024 | Ruth Schuster and Samuel Wolff

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Identifying an archaeological site with biblical stories is often circumstantial. In this case, archaeologists found the biblical archaeology equivalent of the Holy Grail: inscriptions discovered within a few hundred meters from the site, albeit from the 1st century B.C.E., reading "boundary of Gezer" in Hebrew, among other things. But the city's story begins thousands of years earlier...

Later excavations in the 1960s and '70s on behalf of Hebrew Union College discerned 26 strata, often with one built upon the last. They range in date from the Chalcolithic period (4th millennium B.C.E.) to the Early Roman period (late 1st century B.C.E).

The most recent excavation, initially sponsored by the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary's Tandy Museum in Forth Worth, Texas and more recently by the Lanier Center for Archaeology at Lipscomb University, in Nashville, Tennessee, concentrated on revealing the Late Bronze and Iron Age strata (1200-734 B.C.E).

Some of its results were recently reported in Haaretz; one, a destruction layer dating to around 1200 B.C.E. attributed to the Egyptian pharaoh Merneptah, the other ascribing the city fortification wall and, ipso facto, the 6-chambered gate to the mid-10th century B.C.E., that is, to the time of King Solomon rather than to an Omride king as has been proposed elsewhere...

Unbeknownst to Rowe, the area he chose to excavate at the far western end of the huge mound featured a burial cave from the Early Bronze Age, possibly as old as about 5,100 years ago.

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Standing stones at Gezer

Credit: Alla Khananashvili / Shutterstock.com

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[SunkenCiv]

The rest of the Gezer keyword, sorted:

• Radiocarbon dating meets Egyptology and Biblical accounts in the city of Gezer [11/18/2023]
• Joseph and The Exodus [02/17/2019]
• Three Skeletons And A Fiery Destruction [Tel Gezer] [03/13/2018]
• 'Solomon's Palace' discovered in Israel, . . . (truncated) [09/04/2016]
• Tel Gezer Water System Built by Canaanites? [11/23/2015]
• Ruins of ancient Egyptian temple unearthed under modern Cairo [10/06/2015]
• Paid sick days and physicians at work: Ancient Egyptians had state-supported health care [02/22/2015]
• Ancient City Discovered Beneath Biblical-Era Ruins in Israel [11/18/2013]
• The Future of Israel's Past [08/07/2013]
• Israel in Canaan (Long) Before Pharaoh Merenptah? A Fresh Look at Berlin Statue Pedestal Relief... [12/07/2010]
• Pharaoh Seti I's Tomb Bigger Than Thought [04/17/2008]
• Pharaohs and Kings - A Test of Time [07/31/2002]
• Deconstructing the Walls of Jerico [06/22/2002]

[SunkenCiv]

One of *those* topics, not a bad twofer.

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39. Thutmose I attacked Gezer of the Philistines and gave it to Solomon, his son-in-law.

https://www.varchive.org/ce/theses.htm

[Dog]

Neat..

[Ezekiel]

The third vessel is a tiny bowl within a bowl, 6 centimeters (2.3 inches) in height. There is a tiny hole in the side of the interior bowl. One could imagine a liquid painfully creeping between the inner and outer bowls, but for what putative purpose is anybody's guess.

A tiny water clock, say for use as an egg timer?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“Geezer” — Joe was a King back then?

[Bikkuri]

B.C.E. = Before Christian Era
(C.E. = Christian Era)

We can play their game too...

[conserv8]

“B.C.E. = Before Christian Era
(C.E. = Christian Era)”

Guess they supposed the event significant enough to change the times.

[silverleaf]

I believe it is referred to as Common Era, not Christian Era
Per Gregorian calendar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Era

[Bikkuri]

I am aware of that. It was changed to "Common Era" so that the non-believers would be appeased and they knew it would upset us Christians, hence, "We can play their game too...".

[ptsal]

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