Red Slip, Burnish, and the Solomonic Gateway at Gezer

Autor: John S. Holladay
Rok vydání: 1990
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Zdroj: Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. :23-70
ISSN: 2161-8062
0003-097X
DOI: 10.2307/1357373
Popis: The introduction of burnishing on red slips has long been held to mark a crucial, though not easily dated, stage in early Iron Age Palestinian cultural evolution. Differing chronological assumptions concerning the introduction of red slips and burnishing on those slips have led to confusion in the dating of later Iron I and early Iron II stratigraphy. Within the larger stratigraphy of Gezer, the finely detailed stratigraphic succession in and beneath the "Solomonic" (inner) gateway documents the introduction of burnished red slips in a closely datable context. The larger site-wide context affords an improved relative date for the earlier introduction of unburnished red slips. Following correlation with the Tell Qasile materials, this article establishes the broader stratigraphic affinities of the Gezer materials and explores simple statistical techniques for objectively determining relative dates of closely related archaeological strata.
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