Abstract
Although many excavations and extensive surveys were carried out in the vicinity of Jerusalem, very few systematic attempts were made to analyse the Iron Age city's hinterland in its entirety. The present article summarises some of the general results of a detailed study of the area around Jerusalem, identifies the territories of the city's 'daughters' (satellite towns), and then focuses on two such units, in which settlement distribution was markedly different from other units: Moza and Ramat Rah?el. The article concludes that most of the territory around Jerusalem belonged to organically developed towns, the territories of which were densely dotted with villages and (mainly) farmsteads. Moza and Ramat Rah?el, however, functioned in the late Iron Age II (7th century BCE) as royal estates (perhaps even as a palatial estate in the latter case), responsible for both the production and storage of surplus.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 283-298 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Palestine Exploration Quarterly |
Volume | 147 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 2015 |
Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© Palestine Exploration Fund 2015.
Keywords
- Hinterland
- Iron age
- Jerusalem
- Moza
- Ramat Rah?el
- Royal estates
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Archaeology
- History
- Visual Arts and Performing Arts
- Religious studies
- Archaeology