Iron Age Levant

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The Iron Age Levant was a culturally rich and politically fragmented region of the Eastern Mediterranean where ancient kingdoms such as Israel, Judah, Moab, and others flourished between roughly 1200 and 500 BCE.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
Levantine Iron Age polities 1

Statements (75)

Predicate Object
instanceOf archaeological culture area
historical region
borderedBy Anatolian highlands NERFINISHED
Arabian Desert NERFINISHED
Mediterranean Sea NERFINISHED
Sinai Peninsula NERFINISHED
Syrian Desert NERFINISHED
follows Late Bronze Age Levant
hasEconomyBasedOn agriculture
long-distance trade
olive oil production
wine production
hasEndTime circa 500 BCE
hasKeyArchaeologicalSite Dibon NERFINISHED
Hazor NERFINISHED
Jerusalem NERFINISHED
Lachish NERFINISHED
Megiddo NERFINISHED
Samaria NERFINISHED
Tell Dan NERFINISHED
Tell es-Safi NERFINISHED
hasLanguage Ammonite NERFINISHED
Aramaic
Edomite NERFINISHED
Hebrew NERFINISHED
Moabite
Phoenician NERFINISHED
hasLanguageFamily Northwest Semitic languages NERFINISHED
hasMajorDeity Asherah NERFINISHED
Astarte NERFINISHED
Baal NERFINISHED
El NERFINISHED
Yahweh NERFINISHED
hasPart Aramean kingdoms NERFINISHED
Ashdod NERFINISHED
Ashkelon NERFINISHED
Byblos NERFINISHED
Ekron NERFINISHED
Gath NERFINISHED
Gaza NERFINISHED
Kingdom of Ammon NERFINISHED
Kingdom of Damascus NERFINISHED
Kingdom of Edom NERFINISHED
Kingdom of Israel NERFINISHED
Kingdom of Judah NERFINISHED
Kingdom of Moab NERFINISHED
Philistine city-states
Phoenician city-states
Sidon NERFINISHED
Tyre NERFINISHED
hasReligion Canaanite polytheism
Phoenician religion NERFINISHED
Yahwism NERFINISHED
hasStartTime circa 1200 BCE
hasWritingSystem Aramaic script NERFINISHED
Paleo-Hebrew script NERFINISHED
Phoenician alphabet NERFINISHED
influencedBy Achaemenid Empire NERFINISHED
Egyptian Empire NERFINISHED
Neo-Assyrian Empire NERFINISHED
Neo-Babylonian Empire NERFINISHED
knownFor development of alphabetic writing systems
intensive trade networks across the Mediterranean
maritime commerce
political fragmentation into small kingdoms and city-states
production of purple dye
locatedIn Eastern Mediterranean NERFINISHED
locatedInPresentDay Israel NERFINISHED
Jordan NERFINISHED
Lebanon NERFINISHED
Palestine NERFINISHED
Syria NERFINISHED
south-eastern Turkey
partOf Ancient Near East NERFINISHED
timePeriodWithin Iron Age NERFINISHED

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Chemosh timePeriod Iron Age Levant
Ephraim timePeriod Iron Age Levant
Manasseh traditionalEthnogenesisPeriod Iron Age Levant
as-Sāmirah or as-Sāmiriyyah historicalPeriod Iron Age Levant
subject surface form: as-Sāmirah
as-Sāmirah or as-Sāmiriyyah historicalPeriod Iron Age Levant
subject surface form: as-Sāmiriyyah
King Omri era Iron Age Levant
Moabite language culturalContext Iron Age Levant
Beth Lehem historicalPeriod Iron Age Levant
Anathoth timePeriod Iron Age Levant
Divided Monarchy period relatedTo Iron Age Levant
Jehoahaz historicalPeriod Iron Age Levant
Ramah timePeriod Iron Age Levant
Asherah pole timePeriod Iron Age Levant
women of Israel timePeriod Iron Age Levant
Merarites timePeriod Iron Age Levant
Aaronites timePeriod Iron Age Levant
Nebo timePeriod Iron Age Levant
Heshbon culturalContext Iron Age Levant
this entity surface form: Levantine Iron Age polities
Kedesh timePeriod Iron Age Levant
Zorah timePeriod Iron Age Levant
Beer-sheba area timePeriod Iron Age Levant
Ziklag area historicalPeriod Iron Age Levant
Gilʿad historicalRegionOf Iron Age Levant