Archaeological Finds in Israel
By MURA LASKY
Copyright, 1955, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.
JERUSALEM — Investigation
of the cultural and ritual life of
the Hyksos, who ruled the east-
ern shores of the Mediterranean
for 200 years from the middle of
the 18th Century, B.C.E., may
become a lot easier with the re-
cent completion of archaeological
I work in a temple area at Nahari-
ya, in Northern Israel. Large
quantities of votive vessels, metal
figurines, beads, jewelry and
pieces of weapons were found, in-
dicating that here the Hyksos
practiced the cults they had
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the Egyptians out of Palestine.
"It seems certain," said Moshe
Dothan, an archaeologist who di-
rected the digging for the Gov-
ernment's Department of Antiqui-
ties, "that the whole Canaanite
temple and nearby "High Place"
on a hill were built as the Hyksos
descended upon the area from
Syria, and abandoned as the
Egyptians drove them out again."
The temple compound is said to
have served a city at the mouth
of the Gaaton River (where
Nahariya now stands) as well
as seafarers who called at Gaaton
Port.
The most exciting find which
Dothan brought back to Jer-
usalem was, no doubt, a stone
mold from which tiny figurines
were cast in bronze and silver.
He cast a specimen, which turn-
ed out to be a strange goddess
—with big horns, a conical hat,
a diadem on the forehead and a
treble row of beads decorating
her delicate nude body. Neither
this goddess, nor the three
other figurines — two repre-
senting goddesses and one a
god — have much in common
with anything so far found in
Palestine, says Dothan. "This
art may have been inspired by
Canaanite art, but there are
some new lines.
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The goddess may indeed be
the "Lady of Nahariya," which
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inspired the cult of the region
but which has not so far been
found in one piece. There seems
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no doubt to Mr. Dothan that these
pieces of art were cast right on
the spot — the "Bamah," or rec-
tangular High Place — and sold
to visiting worshippers, for in
one of the smaller vessels he
found a pair of horns as worn by
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bronze and silver toggle pins, an
amethyst scarab, and a piece of
linen which was miraculously
; preserved in this. damp climate.
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This was the second dig on the
spot. Mr. Dothan found that the
first building on the hill — erect-
ed level with the ground and onto
which the High Place was later
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used for cult purposes. Various
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offerings were found there, simi-
lar to those previously discovered
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in the Temple and on the High
Place. Dothan calculates that this
square building was the earliest,
and to it the worshippers brought
their offerings; next a small High
Place was erected to the south;
and finally, a new, larger temple
to the north, to take the place of
the ground-level square temple
onto which the main High Place
was superimposed. Thus, the
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archaeologist P. Bar-Adon com-
pleted the tenth season's dig by
the southwestern shores of Lake
Galilee, where he further investi-
gated a fortified city wall un-
earthed earlier in the southern
and western parts of the hill of
Beth Jerah.
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mudbrick wall dated to the
Middle Bronze I Age, and to
have been reused in the Hellen-
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which, he says, goes to prove
that the wall was built in the
Hellenistic Period.
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