Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/3950
Title: Building a city wall: An administrative perspective.
Authors: Katz, Jill
Keywords: Cities, Bronze age
Surplus
forts
Issue Date: 2017
Publisher: Near Eastern Archaeology
Citation: Katz, Jill. 2017. Building a city wall: An administrative perspective. Near Eastern Archaeology 80.4: 282-284
Abstract: During the Early Bronze Age II/III, Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath was fortified by a city wall. This wall has been exposed now in several areas, stretching from the acropolis in the west (Area F), alongside the central part of the southern ridge (Area P; fig. 1) to the lower slopes in the east (Area J), just below a significant Early Bronze Age neighborhood in Area E. In general, the wall width is approximately 2.5 m, but varies along its length, including periodic offsets that protrude over 0.5 m. The longest stretch of contiguous wall currently visible is 21 m, and a portion of that was exposed all the way to its foundation. This probe revealed that the stone structure itself was comprised of large and medium-sized, roughly-cut, local fieldstones to a height of 10 courses, or 2.4 m (fig. 2). In addition, there was most likely an original mud-brick superstructure on top of the stones as implied by the thick decomposed mud-brick accumulation just outside the wall.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5615/neareastarch.80.4.0282
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/3950
ISSN: 10942076
Appears in Collections:Stern College for Women -- Faculty Publications

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