Tell Bleibil, Jordanien. Grabungen am Tell Bleibil im südlichen Jordantal. Die Arbeiten der Jahre 2020 und 2021

Abstract

In 2021, after the COVID-19-pandemic-related hiatus of field research in 2020, several new test trenches were conducted at Tell Bleibil along the northern flank of the tell, exposing part of an exceptionally well-preserved Iron Age IIB–C (late 9th/early 8th–late 7th/early 6th century BCE) casemate wall built of mudbricks, referred to as »Building A«, of which two rooms have been excavated in field season 2021. The structures can be architecturally and functionally assigned to belong to the massive stone foundations of the Iron Age fortification wall already exposed in the 2019 campaign on the north western flank of the tell. After a massive conflagration, which destroyed the building and brought an end to this phase, the site was resettled during the Persian period. In addition to the archaeological fieldwork, the site was completely topographically surveyed for the first time.