entity · site_kuntillet_ajrud
Kuntillet Ajrud
Also known as: Ḥorvat Teman, Kuntillet ʿAjrud
Arid-route installation with inscriptions and drawings relevant to eighth-century Israelian/Judahite religion and scribal practice.
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.
850 BCE–720 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · provides archaeological observation
Kuntillet ‘Ajrud (Ḥorvat Teman): An Iron Age II Religious Site on the Judah-Sinai Border — Zeev Meshel (2012)Supports the site description, phase range, or principal research relevance.
Locator: final report; site architecture and chronology
Research description
Arid-route installation with inscriptions and drawings relevant to eighth-century Israelian/Judahite religion and scribal practice. 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.
Contextual record outside primary interval
A later or earlier record retained because it directly tests a claim, terminology, reception, or consequence inside the primary interval.
Why does this record have this property?
The site overlaps the 800 BCE boundary and is used as later contextual evidence for Yahwism.
- Kuntillet ‘Ajrud (Ḥorvat Teman): An Iron Age II Religious Site on the Judah-Sinai Border
dates · site chronology
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides archaeological observation
Kuntillet ‘Ajrud (Ḥorvat Teman): An Iron Age II Religious Site on the Judah-Sinai Border — Zeev Meshel (2012)Supports the site description, phase range, or principal research relevance.
Locator: final report; site architecture and chronology
Referenced records
- Sinai and Egyptian frontier · entity
- Geography assertion for site_kuntillet_ajrud · geography assertion