entity · site_sarepta
Sarepta
Also known as: Sarafand, Zarephath
A coastal settlement between Sidon and Tyre with stratified Late Bronze and Iron Age occupation.
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.
1300 BCE–1000 BCE
Precision: archaeological period range
- informs · provides archaeological observation
Sarepta I: The Late Bronze and Iron Age Strata of Area II, Y: The University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania Excavations at Sarafand, Lebanon — Anderson, William Paul (1988)Primary publication of the relevant occupation sequence.
Locator: Area II,Y stratigraphy and ceramic sequence - informs · contextualizes
The Iron Age I in the Northern Levant: New Perspectives from Lebanon — Charaf, Hanan (2025)Places Sarepta’s continuity within a wider Lebanese sequence.
Locator: Abstract; Sarepta and Tell Arqa comparison - informs · locates
Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places — Ancient World Mapping Center, Stoa ConsortiumProvides a representative archaeological-site point.
Locator: Pleiades 678374
Research description
Excavated settlement deposits at Sarepta provide rare domestic and production evidence from the Phoenician coast. The published Area II sequences support occupation and material continuity across the Late Bronze to Iron Age transition rather than a terminal destruction horizon. Excavated soundings represent only part of the ancient settlement.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides archaeological observation
Sarepta I: The Late Bronze and Iron Age Strata of Area II, Y: The University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania Excavations at Sarafand, Lebanon — Anderson, William Paul (1988)Primary publication of the relevant occupation sequence.
Locator: Area II,Y stratigraphy and ceramic sequence - informs · contextualizes
The Iron Age I in the Northern Levant: New Perspectives from Lebanon — Charaf, Hanan (2025)Places Sarepta’s continuity within a wider Lebanese sequence.
Locator: Abstract; Sarepta and Tell Arqa comparison - informs · locates
Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places — Ancient World Mapping Center, Stoa ConsortiumProvides a representative archaeological-site point.
Locator: Pleiades 678374
Referenced records
- Northern Levant · entity
- Geography assertion for site_sarepta · geography assertion