with this word game (loosely based on 2 Samuel 1:20), which last year the T-shirt excavation graced, I greet you hereby violently from Kibbutz Revadim in Israel!
Today is day 3 on day 2 of the tell and really digging in the next few scorpions and so far - have been a number of pottery shards found mostly Babyschildkroete - that was quite a surprise. But that is not nearly as exciting as it is expected to be as we were busy yesterday so essentially each excavation squares (see below) of erosierter earth, clean plants, etc. and have now opened several new "Squares". Here, of course, must initially once the turf be removed, which in turn is quite zeitaufwaendig. Particularly happy, however, is the fact that I am in "Area D" to dig about 150 meters beyond the actual plate on which was located in the iron so the Philistines time the upper town may. This area was in fact inhabited probably at no other time, at least not according to the Iron Age, which means that only about 20 cm below the Earth's surface on a so-called "Destruction Level" was met with the destroyed and partially burned remains of the Lower Town holds. This destruction in turn can lead to the back in 2 Kings 12.17 Gath by Hazael described conquest of Damascus. So dramatic that event may have been, it has for us an advantage: as in the case of Pompeii also had people bring no way to their property before the event in safety, what us two and a half thousand years later, the opportunity is, in this state at that time to dig again.
Some artifacts have already been excavated, we will lead this evening on the basis of a reconstructed Philistine village before our eyes (leave). And then even as a lecture on "Did David kill Goliath of Gath, really?" on the program, on its content and result, I have 'm very excited. More about
finds, my expected stay in Jerusalem at the weekend, the German-English (Football) Friendly local, Australian customs and the peculiarities of the Hebrew language in the next few days ...
Until then ...
Shalom!
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