Tel Anafa

Tel Anafa

תל אנפה
Tel Anafa, from the south
Shown within Israel
Location
Coordinates	33°10′38″N 35°38′41″E / 33.177164°N 35.644694°E
Area	11 dunams
History
Periods	Early Bronze Age - Hellenistic period

Tel Anafa (Hebrew: תל אנפה‎‎, lit. "Egret hill" Arabic: تل الأخضر‎, translit. Tel el-Hader‎, lit. "The green hill") is an archaeological site and nature reserve in the Upper Galilee, Israel.^[1]

History

Tel Anafa was inhabited from the Early Bronze Age through the early Roman period, but most of the significant archaeological remains are from the Hellenistic period.^[2][3]

In the late Hellenistic period, 125-80 BCE, the site was occupied by a large building with a central courtyard. The site was abandoned after 80 BCE and resettled in the last decade of the century. This early Roman phase continued until the mid 1st century CE when the site was abandoned once again. Coins and amphora handles from the late 4th to the 2nd century were unearthed.^[4]

The land on which it is situated has since 1984 been part of an 11-dunam nature reserve.^[5]

See also

• National parks and nature reserves of Israel

References

1. Bar'am, Aviva. "A monumental north". JPost.com » Israel Travel Guide.
2. "Tel Anafa". Kelsey Museum of Archaeology.
3. "Ancient Tel Anafa". The History of the Ancient Near East Electronic Compendium.
4. Ancient Tel Anafa
5. "List of National Parks and Nature Reserves" (PDF) (in Hebrew). Israel Nature and Parks Authority. Retrieved 2010-10-10.

Further reading

• Sharon, Herbert (1993). E. Stern, ed. New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land. 1. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society and Carta. pp. 58–61.
• Sharon Herbert; Donald T. Ariel (1994). Tel Anafa I: final report on ten years of excavation at a Hellenistic and Roman settlement in northern Israel. Kelsey Museum of Archaeology at the University of Michigan. pp. 19–22. Retrieved 10 October 2010..
• Sharon C. Herbert, Tel Anafa I, i and ii, Final Report on Ten Years of Excavation at a Hellenistic and Roman Settlement in Northern Israel (Ann Arbor: Kelsey Museum 1994) (Journal of Roman Archaeology, Suppl. 10, I, i and ii; Kelsey Museum Fieldwork Series); Andrea Berlin and Kathleen Warner Slane, Tel Anafa II, i, The Hellenistic and Roman Pottery (Ann Arbor: Kelsey Museum 1997) (Journal of Roman Archaeology, Suppl. 10, II, i; Kelsey Museum Fieldwork Series).
• Saul S. Weinberg, Tel Anafa : the Hellenistic town (Jerusalem : National Museum 1970)