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Plan 160

Collection:
Digitizing Tell en-Naṣbeh, Biblical Mizpah of Benjamin
Creator(s):
Sorial, Labib
Date:
1935
ca. 3200 BCE
1200-200 BCE
Description:
Houses and parts of houses (3-room and 4-room). Later walls cutting cross houses. Cisterns. Bins.
Culture:
Israelite
Subject:
Persian Period
Mizpah
archaeology
Iron Age
Babylonian
Location:
West Bank, Palestine
Israel
Creation Site:
Tell en-Naṣbeh
Extent:
61 x 45.5
centimeters
Source:
Plan 160: AD-AE-AF, 19-20-21
Image View Description:
Center of site
Image View Type:
1:100 Scale Architectural Plan
Latitude:
31.885287
Longitude:
35.216656
Style/Period:
Iron Age
Babylonian Period
Persian Period
Hellenistic Period
Excavation Date:
1935
Archaeological Period:
Early Bronze I
Iron Age I
Iron Age II
Babylonian Period
Persian Period
Hellenistic Period
Archaeological Date:
ca. 3200 BCE
1200-200 BCE
Israel Grid:
1706.1144
Analysis of Plan:
https://digital.library.cornell.edu/docs/plan160.pdf
Elevation:
848 m|2762 ft
Materials/Techniques:
Copy of original on vellum. Original was vellum on canvas.
Work Type:
plans (maps)
Rights:
The images in the “Digitizing Tell en-Naṣbeh, Biblical Mizpah of Benjamin” Collection (aka Digitizing Tell en-Nasbeh, 9834430) are adapted from material under copyright of the Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology at the Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, CA, USA. They are used here with the Museum's kind permission. The images were digitized in 2016 at the University of California, Berkeley. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item.
This collection is funded by an Arts and Sciences Grant to Jeffrey Zorn and Lauren Monroe, from the Department of Near East Studies. Please contact them or the Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology for more information about this collection.
Identifier:
9834430_160_1
Repository:
Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology

About the collection

Tell en-Naṣbeh, ancient Mizpah of Benjamin, is located 12 km north of Jerusalem in the West Bank. Approximately two thirds of this three hectare, primarily Iron Age, site was excavated by a team from Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, CA, between 1926-1935 under the direction of W. F. Bade ́. Later, Tell en-Naṣbeh's architecture was completely reevaluated and revised in a dissertation by Jeffrey R. Zorn (1993). That study, included here, remains the fundamental understanding of the site's stratigraphy. The full set of 1:100 plans with which Zorn worked, has, until now, only been available to those able to travel to Berkeley. The goal of this digitization project is to make these important plans available to students and scholars at Cornell and around the world.

Additional plans

Overview plan of Tell-en-nasbeh Plan 73 Plan 57 Plan 58 Plan 74 Plan 75 Plan 76 Plan 89 Plan 90 Plan 91 Plan 92 Plan 93 Plan 106 Plan 107 Plan 108 unavailable Plan 109 Plan 110 Plan 123 Plan 124 Plan 125 Plan 126 Plan 127 Plan 128 unavailable Plan 140 Plan 141 Plan 142 Plan 143 Plan 144 Plan 145 Plan 158 Plan 159 Plan 160 Plan 161 unavailable Plan 162 Plan 163 Plan 176 Plan 177 Plan 178 Plan 179 Plan 194 Plan 195 Plan 196