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    This document summarizes Iron Age architecture and artifacts from the region of the Hebrew Bible. It features images and descriptions of pottery, figurines, cult vessels and objects, monumental structures like gates and palaces, water systems, and domestic housing from sites such as Hazor, Gezer, Megiddo, Beersheva, and Khirbet Qeiyafa, dating from the 10th to 8th centuries BCE. Key findings included LMLK storage jars, "pillar" figurines, a moon stela, and four-room houses. Water systems had deep shafts and cisterns to collect and store water for the cities.

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    This document summarizes Iron Age architecture and artifacts from the region of the Hebrew Bible. It features images and descriptions of pottery, figurines, cult vessels and objects, monumental structures like gates and palaces, water systems, and domestic housing from sites such as Hazor, Gezer, Megiddo, Beersheva, and Khirbet Qeiyafa, dating from the 10th to 8th centuries BCE. Key findings included LMLK storage jars, "pillar" figurines, a moon stela, and four-room houses. Water systems had deep shafts and cisterns to collect and store water for the cities.

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    Architecture and Artifacts

    of the Iron Age:


    The Material Context of the Hebrew Bible
    Pottery

    Assorted IA pottery,
    Hazor
    Pottery

    Assorted IA pottery
    Stampe
    d
    handles

    LMLK seals: stamped


    on the handles of large
    storage jars, found
    mostly in and around
    Jerusalem during the
    reign of King Hezekiah
    (8th c BCE). This
    LMLK
    handles
    Pottery

    Philistine bichrome
    pottery, IA I. Stylistic
    features include red
    or black decoration
    on a white slip with
    motifs of
    stripes, birds, or fish.
    Figurine
    s

    Tel Motza, Israel (Near Jerusalem)


    ca. 9th century
    Artifacts
    Figurines

    ”Pillar” figurines, Judea,


    8th-6th century
    Figurines

    ”Pillar” figurines, Judea,


    8th-6th century
    Figurines

    Pataikos, 9th-8th century


    Figurines
    Figurin
    es
    Figurines

    “And Josiah “destroyed


    the horses that the kings
    of Judah had set up in
    honor of the sun at the
    entrance to the House of
    the Lord.” (2 Kings 22:2)
    Cult vessels

    Philistine cult stand from Yavneh


    favissa, ca. 9th-8th century
    Cult vessels

    Judahite cult stand, Tanaach,


    ca. 9th-8th century
    Cult vessels

    Israelite cult stand, Tell Rehov,


    ca. 10th-9th century
    Cult objects

    Moon stela, Bethsaida, 9th century BCE


    Cult
    objects
    Monumental
    architecture

    Khirbet Qeiyafa,
    southern gate,
    10th century BCE
    Monumental
    architecture

    Khirbet Qeiyafa,
    southern gate,
    10th-9th century
    BCE
    Monumental
    architecture

    Megiddo,
    th th
    Monumental
    architecture

    Hazor, 10th-9th
    Monumental
    architecture

    Gezer, Palace and


    gate, 10th-9th
    century BCE
    Monumental
    architecture

    Megiddo Palace
    6000, 10th-9th
    Monumental
    architecture
    Storehouses.
    "And Hezekiah made
    for himself store-
    houses for the
    increase of corn, and
    wine, and oil; and
    stalls for all manner
    of beasts, and
    shelters for flocks.”
    Beersheva,
    8th century BCE.
    Monumental
    architecture
    Water system at
    Hazor, 46 m square
    shaft, 123 steps to
    bedrock.
    9th-8th century
    BCE
    Monumental
    architecture
    Water system at
    Hazor, 46 m square
    shaft, 123 steps to
    bedrock.
    9th-8th century
    BCE
    Monumental
    architecture

    Water system
    Megiddo, 35 m deep,
    fed by a spring.
    Monumental
    architecture

    The water system


    at Beersheva is
    40m below city
    level. It is
    composed of five
    spaces, holding a
    capacity of
    700m3. 
    9th century BCE.
    Monumental
    architecture

    The water system


    at Beersheva is
    40m below city
    level. It is
    composed of five
    spaces, holding a
    capacity of
    700m3. 
    9th century BCE.
    Monumental
    architecture

    The water system


    at Beersheva is
    40m below city
    level. It is
    composed of five
    spaces, holding a
    capacity of
    700m3. 
    9th century BCE.
    Domestic
    architecture

    Four-room house,
    Izbet Sarta (Judea),
    10th century
    Domestic
    architecture

    Four-room house,
    Beersheva,
    10th-9th century

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