Ekron

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Ekron (Hebrew: Tel Miqne, Arabic: Khirbet el-Muqannaʿ) is an archaeological site in the Shephelah region of modern Israel, located some 35 km (22 miles) south-west of Jerusalem and 4.5 km (2.5 miles) east of Kibbutz Revadim. Map Reference 1356.1315.

Tel Miqne-Ekron has been important in forging an ongoing reassessment of Philistine culture in the southern Levant, particularly in the period of the early first millennium BCE.

1 Discovery and Identification
2 Excavation
3 Bibliography
- 3.1 Excavation Reports
- 3.2 Derivative Treatments
4 External links

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Discovery and Identification

Khirbet el-Muqannaʿ first appears within the 1882 Survey of Western Palestine [2, XVI, 425] as Khirbet el-Mekennaʿ, the name probably derived from the nearby wadi.

Precise confirmation that Tel Miqne was to be equated with the city of Ekron came with the discovery in [[ of a temple dedicatory inscription.

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Excavation

Tel Miqne-Ekron was excavated for a total of 14 seasons, starting in 1981 and concluding in 1996, under the direction of Trude Dothan and Sy Gitin. Excavations were undertaken under the auspices of the Albright Institute and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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Bibliography

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Excavation Reports

Killebrew, Anne E. [1986], Report of the 1984 Excavations - Field INE/SE, [Tel Miqne-Ekron Project Office], Jerusalem, 1986.
- [1996], Report of the 1985-1987 Excavations in Field INE: Areas 5, 6, 7 - the Bronze and Iron Ages - Text and Data Base (Plates, Sections, Plans), [Tel Miqne-Ekron Project Office], Jerusalem, 1996.

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Derivative Treatments

Albright, William Foxwell [1923], AASOR 2-3 (1923), pp.1-46.
[1924], BASOR 15 (1924), p.8.

Ben-Shlomo, David [2008], "Zoomorphic Vessels from Tel-Miqne-Ekron and the Different Styles of Philistine Pottery", IEJ 58.1 (2008), pp.24-47.

Dothan, Trude, T. [1995], "Tel Miqne-Ekron: The Aegean Affinities of the Sea Peoples’ (Philistines’) Settlement in Iron Age I", in Gitin, S. (ed.) Recent Excavations in Israel: A View to the West. Reports from Kabri, Nami, Miqne-Ekron, Dor, and Ashkelon, Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt, 1995, pp.41-59.
- [2000], "Reflections on the Initial Phase of Philistine Settlement", in Oren, E.D. (ed.), The Sea Peoples and Their World: A Reassessment, Philadelphia, 2000, pp.145-158.
- [2002], “Bronze and Iron Objects with Cultic Connotations from Philistine Temple Building 350 at Ekron", IEJ 52.1 (2002), pp.14–23.
- [2006], “A Decorated Ivory Lid from Tel Miqne-Ekron”, in Gitin, S., Wright, J.E. and Dessel, J.P. (eds), Confronting the Past—Archaeological and Historical Essays on Ancient Israel in Honor of William G. Dever, Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2006, pp.33-40. ISBN 1575061171

Gitin, Seymour [1995], "Tel Miqne-Ekron in the 7th Century BCE: the Impact of Economic Innovation and Foreign Cultural Influences on a Neo-Assyrian Vassal City-State", in Gitin, S. (ed.) Recent Excavations in Israel: A View to the West. Reports from Kabri, Nami, Miqne-Ekron, Dor, and Ashkelon, Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt, 1995, pp.61-79.
- [1996], "Royal Philistine Temple Inscription Found at Ekron", BA 59 (1996), pp.101-102.
- [1999], "Tel Miqne-Ekron: A Type Site for the Inner Coastal Plain in the Iron Age II Period", in Gitin, S. and Dever, W. (eds), Recent Excavations in Israel: Studies in Iron Age Archaeology, [ AASOR 49], Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1999, pp.23-50.

Gitin, S. and Dothan, T. [1985], "The Rise and Fall of Ekron of the Philistines: Recent excavations at an Urban Border Site", BA 50 (1985), pp.197-222.