Ashkelon 6: The Middle Bronze Age Ramparts and Gates of the North Slope and Later Fortifications

by Lawrence E. Stager

The Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon continues its final report series with a study of the fortifications of the North Slope.

From the first gate and rampart in the Middle Bronze Age through mud-brick towers from the Iron Age, these defenses are evidence of how the seaport of Ashkelon was both a political force in the southern Levant and an economic power in the eastern Mediterranean. This volume includes the monumental mud-brick gate of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575069806
• ISBN13: 9781575069807
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Eisenbrauns
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 5.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 8.8" x 11.2"