Iron Age I kernoi from Tell Afis. (2nd January 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Minunno, Giuseppe
• Is Part Of: Levant. Volume 48:Number 1(2016)
• Page Start: 52
• Page End: 62
• Publication Date: 2016-01-02
• Subjects: Iron Age I -- ceramics -- Tell Afis -- north-west inner Syria -- kernos; Middle East -- Antiquities -- Periodicals; Middle East -- History -- Periodicals; Middle East -- Civilization -- To 622 -- Periodicals; 939.4
• DOI: 10.1080/00758914.2016.1146507
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0075-8914

Abstract

Abstract : The excavations in Area A1E, on the acropolis of Tell Afis (north-western Syria), have yielded remains of at least two, but probably three, kernoi . Their stratigraphic context, as well as their similarity to specimens from Cyprus, dates them to the Iron Age I. For this period they are, at present, the only kernoi known from Syria. They come from a cultic area that might have been dedicated to the main deity of the site, who was probably a storm god.