Tel Hazor Ninth and Eighth Centuries B.C.E. Photo Gallery

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Tel Hazor Ninth and Eighth Centuries B.C.E. Photo Gallery

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Photo Gallery: Here’s a gallery of all the images that appear in Near Eastern Archaeology 76.2 (2013) for Hazor in the ninth and eighth centuries B.C.E.

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NEA Figure 1: Aerial view of Hazor looking south: the tell and the Lower City.

NEA Figure 69: Schematic plan of the phases of the Iron Age City (Strata VIII-V).

NEA Figure 70: Stratum VIII city plan in Area A, ninth century B.C.E.

NEA Figure 71: General view of the excavations. In the center: remains of the public storehouse (tripartite building).

NEA Figure 72: Early phase of the storehouse (tripartite building).

NEA Figure 74: Remains of the storehouse (tripartite building) in Area M (looking west).

NEA Figure 75: Stratum VII city plan in Area A, ninth century B.C.E.

NEA Figure 78: Stratum VI city plan in Area A, eighth century B.C.E.

NEA Figure 79: Olive-oil press in one of the residential units.

NEA Figure 80: Stratum V city plan in Area A, eighth century B.C.E.

NEA Figure 81: Granaries full of charred wheat in Area M.

NEA Figure 85: Destruction level with vessels lying on the floor.

NEA Figure 84: Amulet depicting Isis nursing the god Horus.

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