entity · site_jerusalem
Jerusalem
Also known as: Urusalim, City of David
Highland settlement and later capital whose Late Bronze and early Iron Age scale, fortifications, and political role remain highly debated.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1600 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · provides archaeological observation
The Contribution of the Amarna Letters to the Debate on Jerusalem's Political Position in the Tenth Century BCE — Nadav Na'aman (1996)Supports the site description, phase range, or principal research relevance.
Locator: Amarna-era Jerusalem and tenth-century comparison
Research description
Highland settlement and later capital whose Late Bronze and early Iron Age scale, fortifications, and political role remain highly debated. The site point in this release is a representative locator, not a settlement footprint or territorial claim.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Modern appropriation sensitive
Evidence frequently used in modern political, nationalist, religious, colonial, antisemitic, supersessionist, or exclusionary arguments.
Why does this record have this property?
Jerusalem's archaeology is frequently used in modern legitimacy claims and needs strict evidence-layer separation.
- The Southern Levant and the Ancient Near Eastern Canon
provides source criticism · archaeology and modern frameworks
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides archaeological observation
The Contribution of the Amarna Letters to the Debate on Jerusalem's Political Position in the Tenth Century BCE — Nadav Na'aman (1996)Supports the site description, phase range, or principal research relevance.
Locator: Amarna-era Jerusalem and tenth-century comparison
Referenced records
- Jerusalem and southern highlands · entity
- Geography assertion for site_jerusalem · geography assertion