Archeologists Find Rare Tablets in Tel Aphek Dig at Petah Tikva
By YITZHAK SHARGIL
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Tel
Aviv University's Institute of
Archeology has announced
the results of its third season
of excavations at Tel Aphek
—also known as Antipatris-
and they are truly impres-
sive.
The rich discoveries in-
clude - rare cuneiform tablets,
remains of fortifications and
settlements and a wealth of
artifacts that confirm that
Tel Aphek and the city built
on the site much later by
King Herod (37 to 4 BCE)
was a key junction on an in-
ternational highway of corn-
ce in ancient times.
el Aphek is located east
of the Israeli town of Petah
Tikva, near the first ridge
of the low mountains through
which early roads linked the
coast with Jerusalem.
The latest digs were car-
ried out by some 150 archeol-
ogists, including students and
volunteers, under the leader-
ship of Dr. Moshe Kochavi
of Tel Aviv University, Dr.
George L. Kelm of the New
Orleans Baptist Theological
Seminary, and Dr. Bruce
Cresson of Baylor University,
Waco, Texas.
Found were the remains
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of middle bronze age settle- Akkadian lexicon containing
ments—about 2000 BCE— such agricultural terms as
with fortifed walls, and late "plow," "wheat" and "hoe,"
bronze age settlements of and the name of the sun god,
the Caananite era. Also dis- "Shamash." The second tab-
covered were the remains of let was an administrative
the Heroclian fortress de- table with numerals.
stroyed during the conquest
by the Roman General Ves-
Daily—Hospital—Sympathy
pasion in 67 CE.
The most impressive find
was two clay tablet frag-
ments inscribed in cuneiform
script. Ten lines of inscrip-
tion on one seem to be a
fragment of a Summerian-
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