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Go to HomepageReel Number: 270002-02
Color: Colour
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1955,1969
Country: Israel
Location: Tel Hazor
TC Begins: 05:17:51
TC Ends: 05:40:00
Duration: 00:22:09
Hazor Archaeological Excavation Reel 2 CU clay masks. Yadin walking and talking on site in front of huge Canaanite sacrificial stone (3-4 tons)(05:18:24), - Orthostats (standing stones). Digging with picks. Cutting trench to find objects in temple. various basalt statues with emblems of Hadad, weather God. 05:21:14 Bull, other animal figures. Large cooking and storage vessels. Drainage pipe for draining blood of animal sacrifices. Statue of man. Bronze plate of Canaanite leader wrapped in robe. Cuneiform Babylonian writing. 05:23:12 Removal of debris uncovers basalt lion, hauled up with jack of car. Head of lioness. 05:24:03 Crane lifting lion out of ground (15th Cent BC). Yadin to camera, climbing Tel. Row of pillars, sickle 4th Cent BC, trench to find 21 different layers. AVs floors, walls etc. 05:26:28- Solomon’s casement walls, fortifications, city gates - similar to gates discovered in Megiddo. Quote from Bible which helped them identify the finds. Refers to archaeologist MacAlister. 05:29:14 Gezer excavations by American team. - “proves” Yadin’s theory about Solomon’s gates. Casement wall from time of King Ahab. Citadel discovered in 1955. Two capitals of pillars. Excavations in progress in merchant’s houses; 05:31:59 pestle and mortar. House with flight of stairs, pillared courtyard. Rich man’s’ house, leaning pillars - poss caused by earthquake. Beautiful pots and vases. 05:33:06 Hebrew inscriptions, ivory and carved stone objects. 05:34:25 Blocked gate in ancient city wall - camouflage (against Tiglath Pillesser II attack) - evidence of his destroying Hazor - ashes on objects. Yadin in vision walking around dig. 05:36:16 Yadin sync. re search for spring, water source. enters deep shaft, throws stone down, 05:37:25 hits underground water table. Yadin walking along different parts of excavation. NB MUSIC SECTIONS ON SOUND TRACK MUST BE CLEARED