An Iron IIA Iron and Bronze Workshop in the Lower City of Tell es-Safi/Gath

Vanessa Workman; Aren M. Maeir; Amit Dagan; Johanna Regev; Elisabetta Boaretto; Adi Eliyahu-Behar

doi:10.1080/03344355.2020.1820040

An Iron IIA Iron and Bronze Workshop in the Lower City of Tell es-Safi/Gath

Vanessa Workman, Aren M. Maeir, Amit Dagan, Johanna Regev, Elisabetta Boaretto, Adi Eliyahu-Behar

Department of Land of Israel Studies

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Abstract

An iron and bronze workshop in the lower city of Tell es-Safi/Gath, dated to the mid-late Iron IIA, contributes new data on the chronology, organization, and practice of metal production in the urban Philistine setting. Analyses show that iron objects were likely produced and maintained on a large scale, alongside bronze, employing regionally unique forms of crucibles and tuyères. The material culture of metalworking is discussed in relation to contemporaneous iron production sites in the region, building a more robust picture of the adoption of iron metallurgy in the Levant versus the status of bronze and iron.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	208-236
Number of pages	29
Journal	Tel Aviv
Volume	47
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/03344355.2020.1820040
State	Published - 2 Jul 2020

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Funding Information:
This study was funded by two Israel Science Foundation grants (no. 1047/17 to A. Eliyahu-Behar and no. 911/18 to A.M. Maeir). V. Workman is grateful to the Azrieli Foundation, the RIAB Minerva Center, and ISF grant no. 1047/17 for scholarship support. The authors are grateful to Maria Eniukina and Jay Rosenberg for help with figure preparation.

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© The Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University 2020.

Keywords

Copper/bronze working
Iron IIA
Iron production
Metal crafts
Philistia
Tell es-Safi/Gath

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