Ekron under the Assyrian and Egyptian Empires
- Title
- Ekron under the Assyrian and Egyptian Empires
- Creator(s)
- Naʾaman, Nadav
- Date
- 2003
- Is Part Of
- Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
- Issue
- 332
- Pages
- 81-91
- Language
- eng
- ISSN
- 0003-097X
- Abstract
- This article discusses four problems that are central to the history and archaeology of Ekron in the late eighth-seventh century B. C. E.: (1) The accession of the dynasty of Padi to the throne of Ekron; (2) Ekron in Assyrian letters and administrative documents; (3) the foundation of Stratum IC; and (4) the economic growth of Ekron under the Assyrian and Egyptian empires. It is suggested that Stratum IC at Ekron was found in the second half of the eighth century B. C. E. and that the city was an important center in the time of Sargon II, and probably earlier. The available sources do not suggest that Ekron enjoyed preferred status among the western vassals of Assyria. Most of the artifacts unearthed at Stratum IB at Ekron should be assigned to the period in which it was a vassal of Egypt. The Tel Miqne publication team has not yet published data that enables scholars to establish the scope of the city's flourishing in the first half of the seventh century, or estimate the extent of the city's assumed decline in the late seventh century B. C. E. Ekron's prosperity arose from the results of Sennacherib's campaign against Judah in 701 B. C. E., from the stability produced by the pax Assyriaca, and from the new economic opportunities created by the empire-rather than the result of a deliberate imperial policy of economic development of its vassal.
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