ORDMICLE
THEY)EIROrT,
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The Excavations At
Tell En- Nasbeb
pat t of our finds. They were la- greatly disturbed condition of the
•
isiriously chipped out of limestone human remains and the mere rem-
bedrock. As a rule, the orifice was nants of gold and carnelian bead
ornaments which came to light.
enit:ordryonvit tahanit aint b,,,11
Only one skeleton under a prott••t-
thi n
stho
stance may partly account for the ing overhang of Tomb II was still
fact that most of them had not intact and showed that the body
been cleaned out for centuries. had been deposited in an extended
Hence the crocks and jars that position with the face toward the
By DEAN WILLIAM FREDERIC BADE
sruke In drawing water were found south.
Of the pottery found in the
bedded in layers of mud washed in
The excavations of American archaeologists at Tell en-
during
rainy seasons. Comparison tombs only a summary report can
Nusbeh have attracted wide attention recently. In this
of a series of layers in different here be made. The distinguished
article, Dean William Frederic Bade gives a detailed account
cisterns may furnish interesting re- Palestinian archaeologist, Pere 11.
of the progress of the work and the findings made.
sults. For what was the upper V invent, referred the tombs to the
stratum in one cistern was found Efie.11ithie Period, !WOO-2500 B. C.
Seven miles north of Jerusalem, shiers himself particularly fortu- to correspond to the middle or hot- This judgment is confirmed by such
on the west side of the Nablus road, nate in being able to gain a prac- ten) layer in another. The women evidence as the writer has been
its a commanding hill whose sum- tical acquaintance with Br. Fish- ifton went to draw water at night able to gather since then by visits ;
Styles for Every Occasion!
s of
Eope.'
mit has all the earmarks of an r n• er's archaeological technique. It is and accidently dropped their lamps to the leading museum
Europe.
merit city mound. It is one el see- a field in which he is an acknowl- into the cisterns, thus providing, All the pottery is made by hand and
WE GUARANTEE TO FIT THE FOOT!
eral to which nip attention was di- edged master, and in the interest of
a
curious
feature
is
loop
handles
smetentionally, another means 14
leiDd by Dr. William F. Albright science it is greatly to be hoped that
In two nit made of duplicate and triplicate
ien. the strata '
25, in
I consulted
hi with his method may prevail more and eleetifY
when,
19 m
slams 0, at least, the lowest strata ropes of clay. The decorations in'
a view to an excavation in Pales- more widely.
reached back beyond the Israelite stripes of red hematito are in some
tine under the auspices 14 the Pa-
cases obvious imitations of basket- •
During a preliminary study of 'ccupat ion
i I
ie
clic School of Religion. Plans inu- eAritVation projects in Egypt the
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ry weaves. Most curious of all and
The first cistern we found came
red during the autumn of that w Titer had become impressed with
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Its mouth, quilt' unique, is 0 series of double
great
surprise.
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year, and at the beginning of 1926 the value of aeroplane photographs as
e bit- cups fashioned crudely out of clay. I
cu ely sealed with clay and a
the writer wa able to leave for in locating great buried structures. ser
e much smaller inner cup is at-
round stone, formed th
Palestine with funds sufficient for Under a slanting light such photo- large
(ac hed by a stem to the rim of the
inn of one of the Exilic silos near I Th
a initial campaign. It was fortu- graphs make visible the gentle co -
r 'Me. They were evidently in-
Like the "lite
est
t
he
citadel
tower.
nate for our maiden enterprise that tours tha! result from the age yl o n,
tended t o serve a ritual purpose
twhe(. were able to availourselves of settling nitwit o f debris over sol nila others, ifs shape was that of an
As a enormous jug. (IC bottle, largest at and the lloorY suggests itself as to
. co-operation of the American structure like city walls.
whether they may 110t have been
.
middle depth is. mewhat smaller •
School of Oriental Research in .1e- blanket flung ove r A chair, set'the Sbe
e bottom and tapering like the intended to pour simultaneous
ruldesn. A general plan for the i•ivering of earth reveals the
a bittle toward the con- double libations of oil and wine.
f
1er of
abler
L ,-ordination of American archaey lines of things undernea b-4' -
.
very g re at variety of po tter y
oVe. A cone of
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logical work in Palestine set forth such general outlines it " years der-riettd opening above.
at all levels in our
debris rose from the bottom WAS found
ioee
exs
i lilt
.iy Or. C larenve S. Fisher had led . visible to on e on the su
;
eavatious, including fine s pecimen
(.- rfacC
i ei ' .
,.
,sill OW walls had been freshl
S i. to ho pe th at our undertaking
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s the plaster had , of the ring-burnished ware of the
clearly per cept' 1 i I e from a h
siktiatered. In place
SW-
might profit by the knowledge 11101
Search for photographs of Tel scaled off, revealin 14 un d ernea th an' Ilionze and Early Iron Ages.
' experience of men familiar with
l
I oral fine pieces of so-rolled "Philis•
ought to light several earlier coating of
Height
same material
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en-Na
r; methods and conditions or research . ;taken
tine" or Aegean ware, with t he. __
by a German aviator during which was thickly i llett(d
th chisel
tLria
decoration,
in that country.
swan
t ' the war. One of them seemed to holes, evidently in e to furnish characteristic
In this expectation we were no
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give clear indications or significant a hold for the las t meat. Here, at have also been found. This is said I'
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disappointed.
Dr.
Albright,
direc-
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al that had been to Inc the first reported discovery of
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for of the schisd, initiated negotia - . contours. Through the kindness of least, was a ester
this ware nn the highlands of (lien-
AlliNWAWASIOAWAVAMMASSAVAN•• ••%••••
Professor Gustav Neiman of the leaned as recent' y as two and a
tions with some of the Arab own '
beh and assisted 1 University of Griefswald, implicit- half millenniums ago, for . around tral Palestine. Great care has been
of Tell en-Nas
.1;
taken
to secure accurate sequences;
, the Bavarian the edge of the con e was found only
in s reaching a formal agreement i tion was made to
if the ceramics found on Tell en- ,I
pottery which, by comparison with ,
1•; .yith them in the presence of Mr. ! Archives of the 1% ar for an en-
h and in this endeavor the
Lubbat, governor of the Ramat- largement from the original plate. the other cisterns , belongs to the N"sbt .
long many inter. stratified contents of the cisterns ;
lah District. Dr. C. S. Fisher, When it came it clearly revealed Exilie period. An
additional and admir- .
severed from the furnish 1111
Professor of Archaeology in the ; the "firs ( ' of a great wall which en- Listing objects rev
control 11A far hack
school and director of the Megiddo circled the entire top of the hill, debris of this ci stern were day able means of
confirmed us in our decision to toys representing riders on horse- as the beginning of the late Bronze
Expedition, outlined for me his anal
statuette's of the Age. If, some ceramographic ex-
broken te, the "Queen of parts are inclined to believe, the
;4 technique, gave me an experienced berth digging on the southeast bark and nn
Aster
assistant in the person of Mr. La• corner of the Tell. At this point fh,b v.h,,,i
copious spring emerges from the !haven," against whose worship lower strata of the two Eneolithie
rib serial, besides several trained , n
the the prophet . tare niah warned the tombs reach back into the Neolith-
limestone, but too far
a
1°d".
Egypti an workmen , and undertook
dayS is Age, we have here a ceramic
'n addition the task of general sup-'edge of the Tell to be included Israelites „f hi s
record which extends over three
.
.t •1 al
srvision. The Pacific School of Re. ! within the city wall
TM. fortieth an( l fume -first
thousand years.
d oach
f M r the tops-
li y th e en
ters of Jeremiah relate a series of
!igloo, therefore, acknowledges a
Great numbers of visitors came
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mound and events which on e is tempted to
our excavations during the
d bt of gratitude to Dr. Fisher e and graphical survey of the hoer
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tii;
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0 . Albright for the valuable a id w hi c h 1 ,i(,l
'et
to this evidenee
sealed ...curse
tcheOrin' into relati( In
.xternal
of the season, especially .
coin ~
cistern. In the t
the have given. The writer con-
while the Archaeological Congress t
day before Easter, the first explor-
Pontiac, Michigan.
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fit
there is nothing
' atory trench was sunk at the point
into the tragic story of Gedaliah,
selected. Almost immediately we
KIVIVOCIStWASIS%WileASICISYSIMISAMANSNASNWAW‘WeSSW IN
some special reas.in must
struck what resembled the surface have caused the abandonment of se
of
an
irregular
stone
pavement.
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serviceable a cistern. But to find
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After five days of digging it re- the key to its mystery in the death
vealed itself as the upper part of
Gedaliah, and that of his com-
a great citadel-tower which formed
is to Merit fy Tell en-Nas-
a corner of the city wall. The lat, r111". the Biblical Mizpah of B en-
Architect.
ait
as N UM] city of surprising het
ter W
nm in. Since the further excava-
thickness. The section of it excas Lion of the Tell may introduce new
voted during the past season vary evidence into the problem, and
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ies between fourteen feet nine in- since my, friend, Professor Albrecht
ches and eighteen feet nine inches. Alt, has presented new and weighty
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The average thickness was about
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sixteen feet, solid rack-laid-in-clay Tel with Gffieon, we prefer to post-
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structure of the Bronze Age type. home discussion of the question for
The corner tower, probably intend- the present.
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ed to control the spring, was pro-
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jecting smaller towers articulated strata within the city. In the ar-
with the wall. Soundings as well eas so far excavated the deposits
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as the aeroplane photograph indi- were deepest near the wall and then
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defenses already laid bare it is pas-
defenses
on of the deposits therefore takes .
Bible to assert that this is the most the form of a wedge with the thick
formidable defensive structure so end against the wall. A pier of . .
far discovered in Palestine. A cross earth left standing, against the wall
section trench, cut through the ex- served ; as a check on the stripping
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tramural debts at right angles to operations and yielded interesting
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the corner citadel, showed that the results, both in pottery and ill •
well-built protective revetment wall stratification. Fleet more evidence is
must have reached up about 20 feet needed for soft' conclusions, since
around the exposed front of the the contents of the cisterns have to
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he correlated also.
Among the first structures that
Our most interesting individuall
came to light, when w e began to
was the discovery of two cave ;
strip lay ers within the city wan. . fouls
tombs with pottery of the type (le-I
' w ere what we took to be grain bins, eribed by M acalister as "preySem-;
Ifi the
or silos, circular in form and can li
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great wall is dated .
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structed of one tier of rock laid in • . 'tie."
from about 1600 B. C. these tombs j
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deep and from three to four feet
hen the superincumbent
evid e n c e a older. 11
in diameter. By the strata had been removed from the'
their position upon earlier debris bedrock a low scrap of limestone,
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they must be referred to the period hardly more than six feet from the I
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of exile. Farther back front the inside base (if the wall, was at my
wall were later found more than :0 -1 request examined and cleaned more
silos excavated from bedrock and of carefully by one of the workmen,!
These
much greater capacity.
after the area had already been
clearly were of the Bronze Age and
A small
m
as finished .
contained abundant and interseting .abandoned
as sage was found to go down into
evidenc e of the Canaanite period phe rock and pottery of a very rare
of the city's oc cupation. Adjacent I t kind began to appear at once. For
to them we found nine rock-hewn three weeks from two to three of
cisterns, mostly pre-Israelite. The
trained Egyptian workmen
massing of silos and cisterns in this scraped and brushed until layer af-
area permits the tentative inference ter layer of pottery and human re-
!xtend their best wishes to
that this section of the city Isith mains had been removed. It seems
'.Always Better at a Little Less'
all of their friends and
(luring the Canaanite and the Is- likely that the tondos were included
radar periods, was used as a story within the circuit of the wall quite
relatives for a happy
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•accidentally, and that it was the
and prosperous
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Bronze Age builders who found
The cisterns and their contents and looted them. That they had
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