The exploration of the “Palace of the Copper Axes”, the Early Bronze Age III palace of the easternmost city of Southern Levant during the 3rd millennium BC, was resumed in 2018, during the 14th season of excavation at Khirbet al-Batrawy in north-central Jordan, and completed in 2019. In the entrance hall of the palace, a square space with ceilings supported by four pillars, an Egyptian green schist palette, a cyan gemstone of amazonite and a pierced bead of fluorapatite were found buried under the destruction layer, while a barrel-shaped carnelian bead from Mesopotamia was found in the destruction layer just outside the Eastern Pavilion of the palace. These finds again testify to the inclusion of the palace and the city into a wide international trade network and its special connections with Pharaonic Egypt.
An Egyptian green schist palette and an amazonite gemstone from the “Palace of the Copper Axes” at Batrawy, Jordan / Nigro, L.; Gallo, E.; Gharib, R.; Mura, F.; Macrì, M.; Rinaldi, T.. - In: VICINO ORIENTE. - ISSN 2532-5159. - XXIV(2020), pp. 1-26.
Titolo: | An Egyptian green schist palette and an amazonite gemstone from the “Palace of the Copper Axes” at Batrawy, Jordan | |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2020 | |
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Citazione: | An Egyptian green schist palette and an amazonite gemstone from the “Palace of the Copper Axes” at Batrawy, Jordan / Nigro, L.; Gallo, E.; Gharib, R.; Mura, F.; Macrì, M.; Rinaldi, T.. - In: VICINO ORIENTE. - ISSN 2532-5159. - XXIV(2020), pp. 1-26. | |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11573/1446027 | |
Appartiene alla tipologia: | 01a Articolo in rivista |
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