Cuneiform Tablets from Canaan in the İstanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri

Year 2004, Issue: 3, 31 - 40, 03.05.2004

Wayne Horowitz Takayoshi Oshima

Abstract

Until the fall of The Ottoman Empire, the land once known as Canaan was ruled from Istanbul. Thus, archaeological finds from some of the earliest excavations in what is now The State of Istael and the territory of the Palestinian Authority came to be deposited in the former Ottoman capital. Hence, in the course of our ‘Cuneiform in Canaan’ project, whose ultimate goal is to produce a book of the same name (see Horowitz - Oshima - Sanders 2002, henceforth abbreviated HOS), we traveled to the istanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri in April 2004 where we studied cuneiform tablets from Taanach, Fell Hesi, Samaria, and Gezer in the museum's Filistin Collection.

Keywords

cuneiform , taanach , filistin

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