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A four-room house, also known as an "Israelite house" or a "pillared house" is the name given to the mud and stone houses characteristic of the Iron Age of Levant. The four-room house is so named because its floor plan is divided into four sections, although not all four are proper rooms, one often being an unroofed courtyard .
Four-room house The information about the Tel in its beginnings is limited, as the excavations have not yet deepened beyond the Late Bronze Age , but the results of the survey show a small settlement in the Early Bronze Age , which declined in the Intermediate Bronze Age, revived in the Middle Bronze Age and grew to become a significant city in ...
A secondary smaller temple was built next to the main one. South of the temples were the residential houses of about 100 sqm, built in the Four-room house design. Many of the findings in the Tell and temple, like clay jugs for oil and wine, bronze vessels and seals.
This structure was destroyed and a new structure dated the second half of the 10th century BCE was built on top of it. It is a four room house, a type of house associated with early Israelites. The large house underwent many changes and most of its bricks were plundered. It was encircled by an outer wall and was surrounded by a large court.
The ground floor of the Burnt House was exposed to reveal a house with an area of about 55 (32 ft) square. It included a small courtyard, four rooms, a kitchen and a mikvah (ritual bath). The walls of the house, built of stones and cement and covered with a thick white plaster, were preserved to a height of about one meter.
In another room, mother-of-four Rasha Abdel Miqdad shudders with grief, before breaking down in tears. “This is the blood of my son, Yamen. May God bless his soul,” the 32-year-old Palestinian ...
The site was surrounded by a defensive wall and divided into large yards, possibly sheep pens, with houses at the edges. Buildings at the site are amongst the earliest examples of the pillared four room house characteristic of Iron Age Israelite architecture, featuring a courtyard divided by stone pillars, a rectangular back room and rooms ...
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