 Tel Qasile, 2009 | |
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| Location | Israel |
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| Coordinates | 32°6′5.76″N 34°47′23.2″E / 32.1016000°N 34.789778°E |
Tell Qasile is an archaeological site near the Yarkon River in Tel Aviv, Israel. Over 3,000 years old, the site contains the remains of a port city founded by the Philistines in the 12th century BC.[1]
Prior to 1948, it was on the village lands of Al-Shaykh Muwannis, which was depopulated in the 1948 war. While the war was still ongoing, in late 1948, the site was given the first archaeological permit by the newly declared of state of Israel. Today it is located on the grounds of the Eretz Israel Museum, which was built in 1953.
Prior to these first excavations, two important ostraca were discovered at the site in 1945-96, by Jacob Kaplan and Robert Hoff.[2]
- ^ החפירות בתל קסילה תש"ח-תש"ט - בנימין מייזלר.
- ^ Maisler, B. “Two Hebrew Ostraca from Tell Qasîle.” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 10, no. 4 (1951): 265–67. http://www.jstor.org/stable/542173.