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TAL ROGOVSKY

NEW ARRIVALS. Following repeated fires that ravaged Khirbet al-Ra‘i in the 11th century BCE, marked changes took place. The site appears to have been rebuilt with a different plan, and the pottery changes from distinctly Canaanite and Philistine forms to those typical of the Judean hill country and early Israelite settlements. Attesting to this shift were around 100 complete or restorable vessels (above) reflecting this early Israelite phase that were recovered from a late 11th- or early tenth-century destruction layer in Area B.