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Category Archives: 2010 Khirbet Qeiyafa excavation
Questions on Khirbet Qeiyafa’s 2010 cultic room
Todd Bolen commented with a series of questions on my previous post about the Qeiyafa cultic room from 2010. Todd wrote: 1. What parallels exist for this type of incense altar? 2. Was evidence of burning found in this room? … Continue reading
Posted in 2010 Khirbet Qeiyafa excavation, Ancient Architecture, Biblical Archaeology, General Archaeology, Khirbet Qeiyafa, New Discoveries
Tagged Archaeology, Art & Architecture, Artifacts, ASOR, Biblical Archaeology, cultic activity, cultic room, Elah Fortress, incense altar, Israelite religion, Khirbet Qeiyafa, massebah, standing stone, Tel Rehov, Yosef Garfinkel
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Garfinkel Announces New Religious Finds at Khirbet Qeiyafa (photos)
Yossi Garfinkel recently presented finds from a cultic room unearthed at Khirbet Qeiyafa in 2010. He sent me some photos for this blog just before his presentation in Jerusalem. They are shown here with his permission. Here is my own … Continue reading
Posted in 2010 Khirbet Qeiyafa excavation, Ancient Architecture, Biblical Archaeology, Khirbet Qeiyafa, New Discoveries
Tagged 2010, aniconic, Archaeology, Artifacts, Biblical Archaeology, cultic activity, cultic room, drink offering, Elah Fortress, incense altar, Israelite religion, Judah, Khirbet Qeiyafa, libation, massebah, standing stone
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Discoveries at Khirbet Qeiyafa: an Intact Shrine
During the 2010 excavation we uncovered what the archaeologists were calling a ‘cultic building’ near the southern Iron Age gate. ‘Cultic’ is the term archaeologists use for any religious or worship-related find. (There’s a standard joke that whenever excavators cannot … Continue reading
Discoveries at Khirbet Qeiyafa – A large manmade cave
One of the most interesting and surprising finds during the 2010 excavation at Khirbet Qeiyafa was a manmade cave inside the city. A group of volunteers found the cave entrance, blocked up, beneath the bedrock. I first heard about the … Continue reading
More Discoveries from Khirbet Qeiyafa (#3)
Architecture is a wonderful thing – a truth I did not properly appreciate until the recent season at Khirbet Qeiyafa. Yes, it’s always fun to uncover one-of-a-kind artifacts, but in archaeology the first thing you look for is the architecture. It … Continue reading
Discoveries at Khirbet Qeiyafa (#2)
Let’s move into the realm of weapons. Khirbet Qeiyafa was a fortified settlement on a hostile border (Philistia and Judah), so we expect to find evidence of weapons during the excavation. A few sling stones have been unearthed at the … Continue reading
What Did We Find at Khirbet Qeiyafa This Summer?
Back on July 15, in the middle of this year’s Khirbet Qeiyafa excavation, I wrote about the potential of some new finds: Best case scenario: A couple of things have been found that could add entirely new dimensions to our site … Continue reading
About to Fly Home
I am at the airport in Tel Aviv munching a goat cheese sandwich and waiting for the airline desk to open. Grady and I are catching a direct late-night flight to the U.S. and should arrive to our respective homes … Continue reading
What Does a French Professor Do As a Volunteer on a Dig?
Hope Chandler is a French and English professor at Florida College. She has never considered volunteering for an excavation until this year. Hope arrived at Khirbet Qeiyafa in early July to help with the excavation and learned how to do … Continue reading
Two Notable Visits to Khirbet Qeiyafa
It is common for archaeologists and scholars to visit excavation sites during the summer dig season. In the 2009 season Khirbet Qeiyafa’s visits included archaeologists from across Israel, BAR editor Hershel Shanks and a high-level delegation from Harvard University. These … Continue reading
