News from the Field: Defensive Judean Counter-Ramp Found at Lachish in 1983 Season

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Our expedition to Lachish is described in detail in the review/article “Destruction of Judean Fortress Portrayed in Dramatic Eighth-Century B.C. Pictures.” In this brief note I would like to describe for BAR readers the exciting results of our 1983 season, in which, for the first time, we extensively excavated the Assyrian siege ramp outside the city wall. We also extended inside the city wall the longitudinal trench cut through the Assyrian siege ramp. Once inside the city, we discovered, opposite the Assyrian siege ramp, an unsuspected Judean counter-ramp intended to bolster the city’s defenses against the Assyrian onslaught. With […]

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Footnotes

For an explanation of l’melekh handles, see “Answers at Lachish,” BAR 05:06, by David Ussishkin.

The ramp inside Dura-Europos buried the walls of the synagogue, thus protecting its magnificent wall paintings.

Endnotes

Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, VII, 311–314.