REL 3004 Study Guide - Shoshenq, Tel Hazor
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H. shanks, where is the tenth century? : the consensus view, megiddo va- ivb contains impressive monumental architecture, solomon built it in the 10th cent, the egyptian king, shishak (shoshenq), destroyed it ca. Bce: stratum via dates to the 11th cent (the judges period) and it is rather meager architecturally. The pottery in this enclosure thus dates to the mid-ninth cent. , and it resembles the pottery in megiddo va-ivb: part of a victory stela of shishak was found at megiddo. Shishak would not likely have erected his stela in a city that he had destroyed. The destruction of va-ivb cannot be attributed to him: stager"s counterarguments, shishak"s conquest list in the temple of amon at karnak names not only. Taanach has a destruction level that is contemporary with megiddo va-ivb. (the match is based on similar pottery assemblages, etc) however, taanach has no earlier stratum that can be linked chronologically to megiddo via.
