Did I Excavate Kadesh-Barnea?
Difficulty of site identification and absence of Exodus remains poses problem
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Footnotes
A “tel” or “tell” is an artificial mound formed by accumulated remains. “Tel” is the spelling used with Hebrew site names; “tell” is the spelling used with Arabic site names.
Detailed scholarly analyses of this important ostracon will soon be published by A. Lemaire and H. Vermusée, and independently by Y. Naveh and O. Goldwasser.
Arad was an important fortified Israelite city in the Negev where numerous ostraca were found on several levels of the six-times rebuilt citadel.