Tell el-Kheleifeh

Tell el-Kheleifeh (also Tell el-Chulefi) is an archaeological site in Jordan at the head of the Gulf of Aqaba immediately west of the city of Aqaba.

Location of Tell el-Kheleifeh

During his excavations in 1933, the researcher Fritz Frank stated that he believed the ruins were those of Ezion-Geber.[1] During his excavations from 1938 to 1940, American archaeologist Nelson Glueck adopted the same thesis. He distinguished five settlement periods, which he dated to between the 10th and 5th centuries BC.

In 1985, Gary Pratico presented a comprehensive reassessment of the architectural and ceramic finds. Particularly in the case of ceramics, he came to a shorter dating of the settlement through comparative studies with numerous other sites from Israel and Jordan. According to his results, a two-phase colonization can be assumed. It is a fortress from the 8th century BC. And subsequently a fortified settlement that lasted until the 6th century BC, such that the equation with the biblical Ezion Gezer of the 10th century was not proven.

Bibliography
  • Nelson Glueck: The First Campaign at Tell el-Kheleifeh (Ezion-Geber). In: Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. (1938) 71, S. 3–17.
  • Nelson Glueck: The Second Campaign at Tell el-Kheleifeh (Ezion-Geber: Elath). In: Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. (1939) 75, S. 8–22.
  • Nelson Glueck: The Third Season of Excavation at Tell el-Kheleifeh. In: Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. (1940) 79, S. 2–18.
  • Nelson Glueck: Tell el-Kheleifeh. In: Michael Avi-Yonah, E. Stern (Hrsg.): Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land. The Israel Exploration Society and Massada Press, Jerusalem 1977, S. 713–17.
  • Gary D. Pratico: Nelson Glueck's 1938–1940 Excavations at Tell el-Kheleifeh: A Reappraisal. In: Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. Bd. 259, 1985, ISSN 0003-097X, S. 1–32. , 1-32. doi:10.2307/1356795


References
  1. Fritz Frank: From the Arabah, I: Tell el-ChleTi. In: Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins (1934) 57, pp. 243–45.
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