Deir el-Balaḥ
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Deir el-Balaḥ [(Arabic: دير البلح) is an archaeological site located some 13 km south-west of Gaza.
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Excavation
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Stratigraphy
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Stratum IX
Finds that provided a dating of this stratum to the Amarna Period included:
- several Egyptian vessels from loci attributed to this stratum have exact parallels at Amarna, including a chalice and a small drop-shaped vessel
- a favissa, discovered in an open area running along the western side of the residential building, containing a pottery stand and a clay bulla bearing four hieroglyphs, namely, two w3ḏt and two nfr. The closest parallel to the clay bulla is a seal impression from el-Amarna and was thought to attest to correspondence between the two sites during that period.
- one of the Stratum IX assemblages included Egyptian pottery and four square kurkar bases, each 13 cm square with sloping sides and a slight top surface depression. Identical bases were uniquely found at Amarna in a bedroom niche, used originally to support the legs of a bed.
- Ten small cylindrical objects with square piercings and made of carnelian and a vitreous blue material, bearing traces of gold, were found on a floor surface. These objects have been compared to the components of a flail found in the tomb of Tutankhamun.
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Bibliography
- Dothan, Trude [1972a], “The Cemetery Near Deir el-Balah and Burial in Anthropoid Sarcophagi in Eretz Israel”, Qadmoniot 17 (1972), pp.21-25 (Hebrew).
- [1972b], “Anthropoid Clay Coffins from a Late Bronze Age Cemetery near Deir el-Balah (Preliminary Report 1)”, IEJ 22 (1972), pp.65-72.
- [1973], “Anthropoid Clay Coffins from a Late Bronze Age Cemetery near Deir el-Balah (Preliminary Report 2)”, IEJ 23 (1973), pp.129-146.
- [1979], Excavations at the Cemetery of Deir el-Balah, [Qedem 10], Jerusalem: IES, 1979.
- [1981], "Deir el-Balah 1979-1980", IEJ 31 (1981), pp.126-131.
- [1987], "The Impact of Egypt on Canaan during the 18th and 19th Dynasties in Light of the Excavations at Deir el-Balah", in Rainey, A.F. (ed.), Egypt, Israel, Sinai: Archaeological and Historical Relationships in the Biblical Period, Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, 1987, pp.121-135.
- [2006], “Female Figurines from the Deir el-Balah Settlement and Cemetery”, in Maeir, A.M. and Miroschedji, P. de (eds), “I Will Speak the Riddle of Ancient Times”—Archaeological and Historical Studies in Honor of Amihai Mazar on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday, Volume 1, Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2006, pp.149-160. ISBN 1575061031
- Killebrew, Ann E. [1996], “Pottery Kilns from Deir el-Balah and Tel Miqne-Ekron”, in Seger, J.D. (ed.), Retrieving the Past - Essays on Archaeological Research and Methodology in Honor of Gus W. Van Beek, Cobb Institute of Archaeology, Mississippi State University, Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1996, pp.135-162. ISBN 1575060124
- Killebrew, Ann E., Goldberg, Paul and Rosen, Arlene M. [2006], "Deir el-Balah: A Geological, Archaeological and Historical Reassessment of an Egyptianizing 13th and 12th Century BCE Center", BASOR 343 (2006), pp.97-119.
- Ventura, Raphael [1987], “Four Egyptian Funerary Stelae from Deir el-Balaḥ”, IEJ 37 (1987), pp.105-115, pls.8-9.
