Category Archives: Tell Halif

Visualizing Food Storage in Ancient Houses

Posted on October 20, 2019 by Tim Frank

Recently an article I wrote was published on the ASOR blog Ancient Near East Today. It discusses some of the issues with visualizations in archaeology.

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Tell Halif K8 House

Posted on March 18, 2019 by Tim Frank

Another house I studied at Tell Halif, was the K8 house. This was considerably smaller. Its front section was well preserved, but back rooms had been eroded. Some of the excavators thought that the artefacts recovered from the house may … Continue reading →

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Tell Halif F7 House

Posted on January 28, 2019 by Tim Frank

In my book Household Food Storage in Ancient Israel and Judah I investigated several archaeological examples of houses. As part of that I also made some visualisations of the houses, which can be viewed here. The visualisations were used to … Continue reading →

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Household food storage in Ancient Israel and Judah

Posted on December 10, 2018 by Tim Frank

My book “Household food storage in Ancient Israel and Judah” has been published by Archaeopress. It is a revised version of my doctoral dissertation completed for the University of Bern. It explores household food storage by looking at texts, pictorial … Continue reading →

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Pottery reconstruction

Posted on June 24, 2017 by Tim Frank

While I was writing my dissertation I was wishing again and again that more archaeological excavations would restore pottery and give a detailed report on the pottery found. For only by restoring the pottery can we know how many vessels … Continue reading →

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Summer 2016 at Tell Halif

Posted on June 21, 2016 by Tim Frank

I am not in Israel this summer, but there’s something happening at Tell Halif. A team are excavating at the northern end of Field V and establishing the connection between Fields IV and V. They are finding some good stuff. … Continue reading →

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Archaeological interpretation of a house

Posted on October 27, 2015 by Tim Frank

The assumptions we bring to archaeology partly determine our interpretation of archaeological finds. There is a constant relationship between small-scale observations and the greater patterns and narratives we see. J. David Schloen’s book on the house of the father does … Continue reading →

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House pillar

Posted on September 19, 2015 by Tim Frank

As previously mentioned, pillars were a characteristic of houses in Ancient Israel. While in the coastal plain, the archaeological remains of pillars are somewhat ephemeral, in the highlands the pillar bases are usually large, easily identifiable stones. In this view … Continue reading →

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Persian figurines at Tell Halif

Posted on August 31, 2015 by Tim Frank

It was especially in Field IV, excavated from 1992 to 1999, that Persian figurines were found on Tell Halif. But throughout the excavations of Field V (2007 – 2015), we also regularly came across figurines. This year the Persian figurines … Continue reading →

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Destroyed by war

Posted on August 16, 2015 by Tim Frank

I have written before about the signs of warfare at Tell Halif. In particular, the city that ended at the end of the 8th century BCE has not only signs of destruction by fire, but also quite a few remains … Continue reading →

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