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Multi-periodSite Name: tel 'AradCountry: Israel Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: 'Arad
Latitude: 31.279862N Longitude: 35.124554E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Ancient Village or Settlement in Israel
Tel 'Arad, NE' Negev desert, Israel
Tel 'Arad lies in the Eastern Negev desert, north of the 'Arad rift covering an area of 52 hectares.
Ancient Cannanite settlement in Negev desert inhabited from Neolithic to Roman times. The ruins of a Canaanite city from Early Bronze Age inhabited from the end of the 4th millennium BCE to early 3rd millennium BCE, started as a small village, grew into a planned and fortified city, covering an area of about 10 hectares with a palace, shrines, residential buildings and marketplace.
The water supply was provided by collecting surface run-of rain water which flowed down the streets and drained into a large reservoir situated in a natural depression at the centre of the city, a thick - walled enclosure called "Water Citadel".
'Arad had close ties with Southern Sinai where copper and other goods were brought on the ancient Atarim road.
'Arad became the centre of trade of copper and other products.
The Canaanite city existed for about 350 years, until +- 2650 BCE, in this phase the end of the The Early Bronze age,the fortified cities in the Levant had been abandoned by the inhabitants. Excavations revealed an absence of any human settlement from the end of the Early Bronze Age until the Israelite settlement in the beginning of the 11th century BCE.
The Israelite settlement began on the highest part of the site, a small enclosure was built in a form of a courtyard encircled by residential buildings.
In the reign of King Solomon a fortress was erected on the site.
Inside the fortress some 200 clay sherds (Ostraca) bearing ink-inscribed writings dated to various periods of the Judean Kingdom were discovered; over 100 Ostraca are written in Hebrew and about 90 in Aramaic.
In the fortress a shrine was found with a square altar, erected from bricks and unhewn stone.The shrine layout runs east - west axis, includes an inner courtyard, sanctuary and the Holy of Hollies with two incense altars.
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