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DigsSite Name: Tel Lachish Alternative Name: Tel Lachis
Country: Israel
NOTE: This site is 0.739 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Kiryat Gat  Nearest Village: Moshav Lachish
Latitude: 31.564645N  Longitude: 34.849051E
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Tel Lachish submitted by motist : Tel Lachish The Tel Lachish National Park and gate structure that was unearthed.. (photo credit:GUY FITOUSSI/ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY) (Vote or comment on this photo)
Tel Lachish is one of the largest, richest and most important archaeological sites from the Old Testament period in southern Palestine. It covers an area of nearly 40 acres. The site is located in the Shephelah, near one of the main routes leading from the coastal plain to the Judean hills.

Lachish was continuously settled from the Chalcolithic period in the 4th millennium BCE till the end of the Persian period in the middle of the first millennium BCE. The accumulation of debris in parts of the mound reaches 12 m. (about 35 feet).

Note: Gate shrine from the First Temple period unearthed in Tel Lachish National Park, Israel
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Tel Lachish submitted by motist : Tel Lachish The benches of the city gate the Bible described as the place where the city elders, judges, governors and kings sat. Photo Credit: Saʽar Ganor, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Gate shrine from First Temple period unearthed at Tel Lachish National Park by motist on Wednesday, 28 September 2016
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According to the Biblical narrative, the city’s gates were the place where ‘everything took place’: the city elders, judges, governors, kings and officials.
National Park, near Mount Hebron, may prove King Hezekiah’s Biblically-recorded efforts to abolish worship in the region, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Wednesday.

The excavation, conducted earlier this year by the IAA in cooperation with the Nature and Parks Authority and Jerusalem Heritage and Environmental Protection Ministry, was carried out to further the development of the historic park.
According to the dig’s director, Sa’ar Ganor, the gate is the largest of its kind found in the country from the First Temple period. While the northern section of the gate was uncovered decades ago by a British and Tel Aviv University expedition, the current excavation was undertaken to completely expose the remainder of the ancient structure.

“The size of the gate is consistent with the historical and archaeological knowledge we possess, whereby Lachish was a major city, and the most important one after Jerusalem,” said Ganor.

“According to the Biblical narrative, the city’s gates were the place where ‘everything took place’: the city elders, judges, governors, kings and officials – everyone would sit on benches [by] the city gate. These benches were found in our excavation.”

Now completely exposed, the Lachish city gate, (measuring 24.50 m. by 24.50 m. and preserved to a height of 4 m.), consists of six chambers, three on both sides, and the city’s main street that passed between them, he said.

“Artifacts discovered in its rooms indicate how they were used in the 8th century BCE,” said Ganor. “In the first chamber were benches with armrests, at the foot of which were numerous finds including jars, a large number of scoops for loading grain, and stamped jar handles that bear the name of the official or a lmlk (belonging to the king) seal impression.”

The archeologist added that two of the handles have the seal impression lmlk hbrn, indicating they belonged to the king of Hebron.

“The word lmlk is written on one of the handles together with a depiction of a four-winged beetle (scarab), and another impression bears the name lnhm avadi, who was probably a senior official during the reign of King Hezekiah,” said Ganor.

“It seems that these jars were related to the military and administrative preparations of the Kingdom of Judah in the war against Sennacherib, king of Assyria, in the late 8th century BCE.”

The continuation of the building is constituted by the gate shrine, its walls treated with white plaster. Steps away, a staircase once ascended to a large room where there was a bench upon which offerings were placed.

Read more at the Jerusalem Post
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Re: Tel Lachish by motist on Tuesday, 13 July 2010
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more +photos : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lachish

http://www.israelinphotos.com/gallery8-TelLakhish.htm

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~semitic/wl/digsites/Cisjordan/Lachish_97/

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