Khirbet al-Karak | |
Alternative name | Beth Yerah, Tell Beth Yerah, Tel Bet Yerah[1] |
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Location | |
Coordinates | 32°43′05″N 35°34′19″E / 32.717958°N 35.571864°E |
Area | c.250 Dunams |
History | |
Periods | Bronze Age - Crusader period |
Site notes | |
Archaeologists | Na'im Makhouly, Benjamin Mazar, Michael Avi-Yonah, Moshe Sheteklis, Emanuel Dunayevsky, Pesach Bar-Adon, P.L.O. Guy, Ruth Amiran, Rafi Greenberg, Pinhas Delougaz, Richard C. Haines |
Website | Tel Bet Yerah Research and Excavation Project |
Khirbet Kerak (Arabic: خربة الكرك Khirbet al-Karak, "the ruin of the fortress") or Beth Yerah (Hebrew: בית ירח, "House of the Moon (god)") (also Khirbat al-Karak) is a tell (archaeological mound) located on the southern shore of the Sea of Galilee in modern-day Israel.[2] The tell spans an area of over 50 acres—one of the largest in the Levant—and contains remains dating from the Early Bronze Age (c. 3000 BCE - 2000 BCE) and from the Persian period (c. 450 BCE) through to the Early Islamic period (c. 1000 CE).[2][3][4]
Khirbet Kerak ware is a type of Early Bronze Age Syro-Palestinian pottery first discovered at this site. It is also found in other parts of the Levant, including Jericho, Beth Shan, Tell Judeideh, and Ugarit.[5] Khirbet Kerak culture appears to have been a Levantine version of the Early Transcaucasian culture,[6] also known as the Kura-Araxes or Kur-Araz culture.
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