Tell Abu al-Kharaz

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Tell Abu al - Kharaz is a Bronze Age and Iron Age site in Gilead in the eastern Jordan Valley. He was with the biblical Jabesh Gilead (Judg. 21.8 to 15 EU, 1 Sam 11:1-11 EU, EU 31.11-13, 2 ​​Sam 2:4-5 EU, EU 21.12, 1 Chr 10, 11-12 EU) and the funeral of King Saul identified.

Location

The Tell is 35 km from the Sea of ​​Galilee and 80 km from the Mediterranean and is located 4 km east of the Jordan River, 5 km north of Pella, joined at a crossroads of ancient trade routes, the Megiddo and Beit She'an to the Mediterranean and from Beth Scheme ' went on to Wadi al - Yabis.

The Tell is about 60 m high ( -200 m above sea level ) and covers an area of ​​300x400 m. It was excavated by the Swedish Jordan Expedition between 1989-2001 under the direction of Peter M. Fischer.

Chronology

The settlement mound was inhabited from the Chalcolithic to the Islamic period. Between the Early Bronze Age (EBA II) and the late Middle Bronze Age but it was abandoned for over a thousand years.

Finds

Since the Middle Bronze Age (MB IIC, about 1600 BC) reigned in Tell Abu al - Kharaz before cisjordanische and Cypriot pottery. Egyptian imports almost completely missing. In the settlement also Cypriot imports were found ( White Slip I ware ).

Lots of 'Chocolate -on- white' pottery is found at Tell Abu al - Kharaz. Such pottery is not found on Cyprus or the Aegean.

Imports

The earliest imports ( phase 1, early bronze age), cylindrical jars and mace heads come from Egypt ( Naqada IIIB). Set the date northernmost Egyptian imports from that time dar.