Tel Hazor
35.5682223903
2023-04-29T15:35:52-04:00
extant remains
UWHS
fortification
bronze
Tel Hazor (Hebrew: תל חצור) is an archaeological site located in the southern Hula Valley overlooking Lake Merom. From the Middle Bronze Age to the Israelite period in the ninth century B.C., Hazor was the largest fortified city in the region. It served as a commercial center with links to Babylon and Syria. In the Book of Joshua, Hazor is described as “the head of all those kingdoms” (Josh. 11:10).
Pleiades
Tel Hazor
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Wikidata Q740138
WHL 1108: Biblical Tels - Megiddo, Hazor, Beer Sheba
Runjajić 2023
GeoNames 293365: Tel Hazor
Wikipedia (Hebrew) תל חצור
Bryce 2016 93, 135, 138, 178
TGN 7023951: Tel H̲aẕor (deserted settlement)
Wikipedia (English) Tel Hazor
חצור
Tel H̱aẕor
Tel Hazor (Hebrew: תל חצור) is an archaeological site located in the southern Hula Valley overlooking Lake Merom. From the Middle Bronze Age to the Israelite period in the ninth century B.C., Hazor was the largest fortified city in the region. It served as a commercial center with links to Babylon and Syria. In the Book of Joshua, Hazor is described as “the head of all those kingdoms” (Josh. 11:10).
[[-1200,-550]]
Iron Age Southern Levant
2023-04-28T10:57:43-04:00
Cuneiform
ANE
Pleiades
CIGS location of Tel Hazor
Bryce 2009 pages 304-306
Wikipedia (English) Tel_Hazor
Wikipedia (Turkish) תל_חצור
Wikidata Q740138
Equivalent to "inhabited place" as defined by the Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus: General term for places or areas occupied, modified, or planned to be inhabited by communities of human populations and that contain enough societal functions to be relatively self-sufficient. They are characterized by inhabitants living in neighboring sets of living quarters and by the place having a proper name or a locally recognized status.
settlement
Our present, modern era. [[1700, 2100]]
Modern (AD 1700-Present)
חצור
-550
2017-02-15T18:55:54-04:00
Pleiades
Hazor
-1200
Hazor
Joshua 11:10
Tel H̱aẕor
2100
2017-02-15T18:55:53-04:00
Pleiades
Tel Hazor
1700
Tel Hazor
-550
2023-04-29T15:34:04-04:00
Representative location of the settlement mound (tell) of Tel Hazor based on an OpenStreetMap way that outlines the perimeter of the visible excavation area.
Levant [[-1344,-1212]]
Egyptian/Hittite Levant (1344–1212 BC)
OpenStreetMap (Way 230115066, version 4, osm:changeset=104988474, 2021-05-20T00:25:24Z)
OSM location of Tel Hazor
-1344
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