Back خربة الكرك Arabic Xirbet-Kerak Azerbaijani Tel Bet Yeraẖ (arkiyolohiyang dapit) CEB Κιρμπέτ Κεράκ Greek Filotera (Palestiina) Finnish Tel Bet Yerah French תל בית ירח HE Beth Yerah Italian Бет-Йерах Russian Кирберт Керак Serbian
Khirbet al-Karak | |
  Shown within Israel | |
| 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.
- ^ Barbara Ann Kipfer (30 April 2000). Barbara Ann Kipfer (ed.). Encyclopedic dictionary of archaeology (Illustrated ed.). Springer, 2000. p. 277. ISBN 978-0-306-46158-3.
- ^ a b Eric M. Meyers, American Schools of Oriental Research (1997). The Oxford encyclopedia of archaeology in the Near East, Volume 1 (Illustrated ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 312. ISBN 9780195112153.
- ^ The Holy Land: An Archaeological Guide from Earliest Times to 1700, Jerome Murphy O'Connor, Oxford University Press, 1980, p.159
- ^ Milgrom, Jacob; Wright, David Pearson; Freedman, David Noel; Hurvitz, Avi (1995). Pomegranates and golden bells: studies in biblical, Jewish, and Near Eastern ritual, law, and literature in honor of Jacob Milgrom (Illustrated ed.). Eisenbrauns. pp. 630–632. ISBN 978-0-931464-87-4.
- ^ Khirbet Kerak Ware ancientneareast.net
- ^ Ian Shaw; Robert Jameson (2002). Ian Shaw; Robert Jameson (eds.). A dictionary of archaeology (6th, illustrated, reprint ed.). Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-23583-3.
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