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.
Observed surface forms (1)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Levantine Iron Age polities | 1 |
Statements (75)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
archaeological culture area
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historical region ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Anatolian highlands
NERFINISHED
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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
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Hazor NERFINISHED ⓘ Jerusalem NERFINISHED ⓘ Lachish NERFINISHED ⓘ Megiddo NERFINISHED ⓘ Samaria NERFINISHED ⓘ Tell Dan NERFINISHED ⓘ Tell es-Safi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLanguage |
Ammonite
NERFINISHED
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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
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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
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Phoenician religion NERFINISHED ⓘ Yahwism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasStartTime | circa 1200 BCE ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem |
Aramaic script
NERFINISHED
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Paleo-Hebrew script NERFINISHED ⓘ Phoenician alphabet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Achaemenid Empire
NERFINISHED
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Egyptian Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Neo-Assyrian Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Neo-Babylonian Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
development of alphabetic writing systems
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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 ⓘ |
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
as-Sāmirah
subject surface form:
as-Sāmiriyyah
this entity surface form:
Levantine Iron Age polities