Architectural Biography in Area A at Tell es-Safi/Gath

From Unknown Unknowns to Unknown Knowns and Known Knowns, in Order to Arrive at the Known Unknowns

Datos Bibliográficos

ID13048331
AutoresLouise A Hitchcock (0000-0002-1470-2519, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen10
Número3-4
Páginas293-316
Fecha de publicación2022-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology & Heritage Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2166-3548 • E-ISSN: 2166-3556
EditorialThe Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.10.3-4.0293
OpenAlexW4310858202
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas15

This contribution aims to understand the history and function of a rectangular structure, probably domestic in nature and located in the early Philistine sector of Area A at Tell es-Safi/Gath. Tell es-Safi/Gath is one of the five cities of the Philistine pentapolis, located in modern Israel, mentioned in the Old Testament, and popularly associated with the legendary giant Goliath. The understanding of this building is achieved through presenting a building biography. This will include a discussion of the building’s complicated construction history, construction styles, associated features, and later disturbances. Although there is a substantial amount of research on object biography, most of that work deals with the reuse and modification or design of contemporary buildings, or megalithic monuments of the European prehistoric eras. A building biography situates the Area A structure within its role in preserving early Philistine identity, history, memory, and imbuing the landscape with symbolic meanings

Art history · Biography · Object (grammar · Order (exchange · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Computer Science · History