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Footnotes

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This summer, Bar-Ilan University’s Department of Land of Israel Studies, under the direction of Aren Maeir and Adrian Boas, conducted its second season of excavations at Tel es-Safi, which is generally identified as Philistine Gath.

Endnotes

1.

Seymour Gitin, Trude Dothan and Joseph Naveh, “A Royal Dedicatory Inscription from Ekron,” Israel Exploration Journal 47 (1997), p. 1ff. See also Aaron Demsky, “The Name of the Goddess of Ekron: A New Reading,” Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society 25 (1997), pp. 1–5.

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James B. Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern Texts (ANET), 3rd ed. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1969), p. 291.

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Pritchard, ANET, p. 294.

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Pritchard, ANET, p. 287.

5.

Klaus Tuchelt, “Didyma,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East, 5 vols. (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1997), vol. 2, pp. 159–161.

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Michael Ventris and John Chadwick, Documents in Mycenaean Greek, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1973), pp. 126f, 289, 311.

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Chadwick, “Potnia,” in Minos, vol. 5 (1957), pp. 122–123.

8.

Herbert Donner and W. Röllig, Kanaanäische und aramäische Inschriften (Wiesbaden, 1964), nos. 4, 6, 7.