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Article: THE HARBOR OF ATLIT IN NORTHERN CANAANITE/PHOENICIAN CONTEXT
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- Near Eastern Archaeology
- Article date:
- June 1, 2007
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CopyrightCopyright American Schools of Oriental Research Jun 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The Phoenician builders who located the Iron Age harbor at Atlit did so with foresight and knowledge. The Late Bronze-Iron Age city of Atlit is situated about twenty kilometers south of Haifa, on a kurkar sandstone ridge adjacent to two natural bays, the bay to the north being the best-sheltered, and the one to the south the second-largest on the coast of Israel The city itself, built on the ridge, or promontory, is buried beneath the crusader town and fortress known as Pilgrim's Castle. Located to the northeast of the promontory, the harbor spans approximately eight hundred meters along the northern bay. Atlit harbor is a single-period construction with no superstructures of the later ...