Early Bronze Age, Iron Age, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Mamluk, Ottoman
Cultures
Canaanite, Jewish, Greco-Roman
Site notes
Excavation dates
1956–1958, 1985–1988, 2013–2018
Condition
Tel (Ruin)
Public access
Yes
Website
Tel Erani
Tel Erani (Hebrew: תל עירני) or Tell esh-Sheikh Ahmed el-ʿAreini (Arabic: تل الشيخ أحمد العريني) is a multi-period archaeological site on the outskirts of Kiryat Gat in the Southern District of Israel. It is also known by the name ʻIrâq el-Menshiyeh ("vein-like sand ridges[dubious – discuss] of Menshiyeh"), although thought to have borne the original Arabic name of Menshiyet es-Saḥalīn.[1] The tell was first occupied in the Chalcolithic period, but its most notable remains are from the Bronze Age and Iron Age, when it was the site of a substantial Philistine city with links to Egypt. It has been identified with the biblical cities of Libnah, Gath, Mmst, Eglon and Makkedah, but none of these identifications are certain. The city was destroyed in the 6th century BCE, possibly by the Babylonians. In the Persian period, it was the site of a temple. There are also signs of settlement in the Hellenistic, Byzantine, and Mamluk periods. The Palestinian village of Iraq al-Manshiyya was located at the foot of the tell until it was depopulated in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.[2]
^Press, Michael D. (2014). "The Arabic Names of Tẹ̄l ʿẸ̄rānī and ʿIrāq el-Menšīye". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. 130 (2). Deutscher verein zur Erforschung Palästinas: 181–193. JSTOR 43664932.
^Negev, Avraham; Gibson, Shimon (2001). "Erani (Tel)". Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Holy Land (Revised ed.). New York, NY: Continuum. pp. 166–167. ISBN 9780826485717.
TelErani (Hebrew: תל עירני) or Tell esh-Sheikh Ahmed el-ʿAreini (Arabic: تل الشيخ أحمد العريني) is a multi-period archaeological site on the outskirts...
Erani may refer to: TelErani, an archaeological site in Israel Erani Filiatra, a football club in Greece This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
ruins at a nearby tell (TelErani) which were mistaken for the Philistine city of Gath. The location most favored for Gath now is Tel es-Safi, thirteen kilometers...
dental calculus from the early Iron Age (12th century BCE) Philistines in TelErani in the southern Levant. Another wave of introductions later spread bananas...
back to Egypt.[14] Production sites included Arad, En Besor, Rafiah, and TelErani.[15] An Egyptian colony that was stationed in southern Canaan dates to...
Besor, Rafiah, and TelErani. Recently, a contemporary brewery belonging to a Bronze Age Egyptian settlement has been found in Tel Aviv. Shipbuilding...
JSTOR 3993769. S2CID 144366247. Press, Michael D. (2014). "The Arabic Names of Tẹ̄lʿẸ̄rānī and ʿIrāq el-Menšīye". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. 130...
sites: Tel Arad, En Besor (Ein HaBesor), Tel es-Sakan, Nahal Tillah (Halif Terrace), TelErani (Tel Gat), Small Tel Malhata, Tel Ma'ahaz, and Tel Lod, Narmer's...
over numerous sites such as Tel Lachish, Azekah, Tel Burna, Tel Zayit, Khirbet el-Qom, TelErani, Tel Harasim and Tel Nagila. This colonization, together...
exported back to Egypt, from regions such as Arad, En Besor, Rafiah, and TelErani. In 1994, excavators discovered an incised ceramic shard with the serekh...
MMS[L]T) or one of its suburbs (Ginsberg, 1948) Tel 'Erani (Yeivin, 1961) Tel 'Ira (see French article Tel Ira in French Wikipedia; Yadin, 1961) An unknown...
(Menšīyet es-Saḥalīn). According to Press, the adjacent Tell known as TelʽErani (Tell esh-Sheikh el-ʽAreini) bore the old name of ʽIraq el-Menšiye during...
167–173. ISBN 965-220-209-6. Shmuel Yeivin and Aharon Kempinski (1993). "'Erani, Tel". In Ephraim Stern (ed.). The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations...
Palestine Exploration Fund. Press, Michael D. (2014). "The Arabic Names of Tẹ̄lʿẸ̄rānī and ʿIrāq el-Menšīye". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. 130...
the stronger resistance offered by the Egyptian troops on the nearby TelErani which Company C failed to take. Facing a dire situation, chief of staff...
were much in fashion among the Persians in the reign of Sasan ( Spiegee, Erani^e/ie Alterthumskunde, Bd. Ill, s. 659), and after the conquest of the Saracens...
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