When Was Gezer Captured by Tiglath-pileser III?
Several dates for the fall of Gezer to the Assyrian army during its three-year campaign to Syria-Palestine (734-732 BCE) are current in historical studies. The judgement that 732 is inferrable from the placement of the depiction of Gezer's capture above a cuneiform text reporting battles in tha...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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2015
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Israel exploration journal
Year: 2015, Volume: 65, Issue: 1, Pages: 96-99 |
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| Summary: | Several dates for the fall of Gezer to the Assyrian army during its three-year campaign to Syria-Palestine (734-732 BCE) are current in historical studies. The judgement that 732 is inferrable from the placement of the depiction of Gezer's capture above a cuneiform text reporting battles in that year is shown to be an erroneous deduction. A more likely date is 734, the year of the military actions in Philistia. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Israel exploration journal
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