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Site: Tel Kabri

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Site Information

Site name (primary, secondary):

Tel Kabri

Country/region:

Israel/Northern Coastal Plain

Alternate names & spellings:

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Coordinates (N,E):

33.0091379698 , 35.140732644

Periods attested by vessels on the LCP:

Middle Bronze Age I, Middle Bronze Age II, Iron Age IIC

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Site Description

Tel Kabri is located on a hill above the Ga’aton river valley surrounded with clay rich alluvium and upper Cretaceous marine sedimentary formations. The Ga’aton River flows from east to west and traverses a valley covered with tufa rich Pleistocene travertines directly at the foothills of the Tell. According to the geological map and several geological reports, north of the valley sedimentary successions of the Judea group are exposed: limestone of the Turonian Bina formation and dolomites of the Cenomanian Sakhnin Formation. To the south of the river valley, formations of the Senonian Mt. Scopus group are exposed: the chalks of the Ghareb and Menuha formations. Additional sources for the alluvial sediments could originate in the Cenomanian Deir Hanna formation composed of limestone, chalks, dolostones and chert nodules that is exposed along the river east of Kabri (Issar and Kafri 1972; Sivan and Gvirtzman 1999; Sneh 2004; Wachs et al. 2011; Arad and Ramon 2012). The soils covering the rock formations are generally clayey red terra rossa, brown rendzinas, or alluvial soils.

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Related Images

Tel Kabri, excavation area

Tel Kabri, excavation of Middle Bronze Age wine cellar

Vessels 244

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Tel Kabri 1494 (TAU 747)

Juglet

Tel Kabri

Middle Bronze I-II

Middle Bronze Age II

Tel Kabri L2534_B2_58

Pithos

Tel Kabri

1800 - 1650 BCE

Middle Bronze Age II

Tel Kabri L2534_B2_30

Jar

Tel Kabri

1800 - 1650 BCE

Middle Bronze Age II

Tel Kabri L2533_B61_11

Jar

Tel Kabri

1800 - 1650 BCE

Middle Bronze Age II

Break Photos 24

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Tel Kabri L2517_B5_52

Pithos

Tel Kabri

1800 - 1650 BCE

Middle Bronze Age II

Tel Kabri L2520_B11_86-85

Pithos

Tel Kabri

1800 - 1650 BCE

Middle Bronze Age II

Tel Kabri L2520-13-37

Pithos

Tel Kabri

1800 - 1650 BCE

Middle Bronze Age II

Tel Kabri L2520-14-21

Pithos

Tel Kabri

1800 - 1650 BCE

Middle Bronze Age II

Petrographic Samples 212

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Kabri 213
Kabri B: 3174-2
Tel Kabri

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Middle Bronze Age II

Magnification:
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Polarized Light?
XPL

Kabri 084
Kabri B: 2068-2/6
Tel Kabri

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Middle Bronze Age II

Magnification:
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Polarized Light?
XPL

Kabri 145
Kabri B: 2410-27/1
Tel Kabri

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Middle Bronze Age II

Magnification:
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Polarized Light?
XPL

Kabri 042
Kabri 2009-5
Tel Kabri

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Middle Bronze Age II

Magnification:
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Polarized Light?
XPL

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Site/Project URLs and Database Links

Site/Project URLs
Database Links

OpenStreetMaps (https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/598941990)

Pleiades (https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/845754667/?searchterm=kabri*)

Associated Wares/Ware Families/Style

Ware name:

Date:

Period:

Southern Levantine Bronze-Iron Age Plain Wares

3200-c. 550 BCE

Early Bronze Age, Middle Bronze Age, Late Bronze Age, Iron Age

Tell el-Yahudiya

2000 BCE - 1400 BCE

Middle Bronze Age

Middle-Late Cypriot White Painted Pendent Line/Cross Line style ware

c. 1750-1300 BCE

Middle Cypriot III, Late Cypriot II A-B

Associated Petro-fabrics

Israel/Northern Coastal Plain/calcareous/biogenic sand

Israel/Northern Coastal Plain ferruginous/quartz and biogenic sand

Israel/Northern valleys/rounded sedimentary and volcanic fluvial sands

Lebanon/Southern Coast/Calcareous clay/Globigerinal Marl, Quartz and Biogenic Sand

Associated Kilns/Workshops

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Bibliography

Cline, E. H., Yasur-Landau, A. and Goshen, N.. "New fragments of Aegean-style painted plaster from Tel Kabri, Israel" American Journal of Archaeology 115 (2011), 245-261
Yasur-Landau, A., Cline, E. H., Koh, A. J., Ben-Shlomo, D., Marom, N., Ratzlaff, A. and Samet, I.. "Rethinking Canaanite palaces? The palatial economy of Tel Kabri during the Middle Bronze Age" Journal of Field Archaeology 40 (2015), 607–625
Kempinski, A.. Tel Kabri: The 1986–1993 Excavation Seasons. Monograph Series of the Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University 20. Tel Aviv: Emery and Claire Yass Publications in Archaeology, 2002
Yasur-Landau, A., Cline, E. H., Koh, A. J., Ben-Shlomo, D., Marom, N., Ratzlaff, A. and Samet, I.. "Rethinking Canaanite palaces? The palatial economy of Tel Kabri during the Middle Bronze Age" Journal of Field Archaeology 40 (2015), 607–625
Waiman-Barak, P., Susnow, M., Nickelsberg, R., Cline, E. H., Yasur-Landau, A., & Shahack-Gross, R.. "Technological aspects of Middle Bronze Age II production of pithoi at Tel Kabri, Israel: specialized pottery production in a palatial system" Levant 50 (2018), 32-51

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Discussion/Acknowledgements

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