Posted on 07/05/2011 7:32:19 AM PDT by decimon
Exceptional detective-archaeological work at the first season of archaeological digs at Tel Shikmona, on the southern edge of Israel’s city of Haifa, has uncovered the remains of a house dating back to the period of the Kingdom of Israel. The site was excavated about 40 years ago and due to neglect and layers of earth and garbage that piled up over the decades, the historical remains were hidden and little was known about what lay below. Upon re-exposing the structure, archaeologists from the University of Haifa were amazed to find that it had remained well preserved and is in fact the best-preserved “Four-Room House” dating back to that period known today. “We had seen the structure in the old photographs, and were sorry that such a rarely preserved finding had disappeared due to neglect. We were not even sure that we would be able to find it again. It was practically a miracle that we managed to locate and uncover it and that it is still so well preserved,” said Dr. Shay Bar and Dr. Michael Eisenberg of the Zinman Institute of Archaeology at the University of Haifa, who headed the excavation team.
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Purple pitcher ping.
True, the house isn’t much but the view is excellent!
Oceanfront property. But I'd think you'd have had to be wealthy to build there for the view. Some connection to fishing or trading would make sense. Otherwise, why build where you are most susceptible to storm damage?
Now, Now. The Kingdom of Israel didn’t exist. It was “Palestine”.
I would guess a place away from the heat and stink of the cities in the summer.
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Interesting, those pillars. At first glance I thought, oh, Roman-era, but then again I doubt that they used hypercaust technology in the Middle East. Nice to know the scale I guess, before further guessing. If it were a basement cistern, it would have to have a source of runoff (i.e., be not on the top of a hill). Anyway, nice pic.
OTOH, a real 'four room house' wouldn't have had gables.
Somehow, this passage loses something in the translation: It is characterized by the functional division of the structure into four living spaces: three positioned vertically and the fourth horizontally. That sounds like something only Esher would love. ;-')
A model of a typical [Iron Age] Israelite house, the so-called four room house. [Wikipedia image & caption]
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