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Ekron of the Philistines, Part I: Where They Came From, How They Settled Down and the Place They Worshiped In

By Trude Dothan

The accumulated evidence from recent excavations at Miqne and other sites and current research on the material culture of the Philistines and other Sea Peoples make the time ripe for a reassessment of the initial appearance and settlement in Canaan of this enigmatic people. Critical to any such reassessment is the understanding that cultural change during the transitional period from the Late Bronze Age to early Iron Age I was not uniform or simultaneous throughout the country. Rather, this period was characterized by a complex process in which indigenous Canaanite, as well as Egyptian, Philistine and Israelite cultures at […]

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Footnotes

1.

See, for example, David Ussishkin, “Lachish—Key to Israelite Conquest of Canaan?” BAR 13:01.

2.

A kernos is a hollow, ring-shaped vessel to which a number of cups or vases were attached. See “The Kibbutz Sasa Kernos,” BAR 02:02.

3.

A rhyton is a drinking vessel in the form of the head of an animal or, occasionally, of a human.

4.

See James D. Muhly, “How Iron Technology Changed the Ancient World—And Gave the Philistines a Military Edge,” BAR 08:06.

Endnotes

1.

Trude Dothan, “The Arrival of the Sea Peoples: Cultural Diversity in Early Iron Age Canaan,” in Recent Excavations in Israel: Studies in Iron Age Archaeology, ed. Seymour Gitin and William G. Dever. Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research series, 49 (1989), pp. 1–14.

2.

Jan Gunneweg, Isadore Perlman, Dothan and Gitin, “On the Origin of Pottery from Tel Miqne-Ekron,” BASOR 264 (1986), pp. 17–27.

3.

Moshe Dothan, “The Relation between Cyprus and the Philistine Coast in the Late Bronze Age (Tel Mor, Ashdod),” Praktika I (1972), pp. 51–56.

4.

M. Dothan, “Sardinia at Akko?” in Studies in Sardinian Archaeology, ed. M.S. Balmuth. (Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1986), pp. 105–116.

5.

Ellen Herscher, “The Imported Pottery,” in Sarepta: A Preliminary Report on the Iron Age, ed. Pritchard (Philadelphia: The University Museum, 1975), pp. 85–96.

6.

T. Dothan, The Philistines and their Material Culture (New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 1982), p. 234ff.

7.

T. Dothan, The Philistines, p. 234ff.

8.

J. M. Webb, “The Incised Scapulae,” in Kition V, ed. Vassos Karageorghis (Nicosia, Cyprus: Dept. of Antiquities, 1986), pp. 326–327.

9.

R. A. Higgins, Greek and Roman Jewellery, (London: Methuen, 1961), p. 91ff.

10.

T. Dothan, Excavations at Deir el-Balah: The Settlement and The Cemetery (Jerusalem: The Hebrew University, forthcoming Qedem).

11.

T. Dothan, The Philistines, p. 251.

12.

Amihai Mazar, Excavations at Tell Qasile, Part 1, Qedem 12, Monographs of the Institute of Archaeology (Jerusalem: Hebrew Univ., 1980), pp. 61–73.

13.

H. W. Catling, Cypriote Bronzework in the Mycenaean World (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964), pp. 207–210.

14.

Richard S. Ellis, “A Note on Some Ancient Near Eastern Linch Pins,” Beryrus 16 (1966), pp. 41–48.

15.

Brian Hesse, personal communication.

16.

T. Dothan, “Iron Knives from Tel Miqne-Ekron,” in Eretz Israel 20 (Yadin Memorial Volume), (Jerusalem, 1989), pp. 154–163.