These pictures were made by visitors Leo Boer, former student at the École Biblique in Jerusalem in 1953-1954 and Prof. Th. Vriezen, professor in the Old Testament Studies at the University of Utrecht (1956-1969), and Dan P. Cole and Dan Hughs who excavated here in the 1960s.
Photo taken from the flanks of Mt. Ebal looking south across the site of Shechem (13 January 1954, ID: cBoerpShechem9.1, Source: photograph, Repository: NPAPH-Project, Creator: Leo Boer)East Gate at Shechem looking east onto the plain of Askar (3 February 1954, ID: cBoerpShechem10.17, Source: photograph, Repository: NPAPH-Project, Creator: Leo Boer)Photo taken from south wall of the North-West Gate at Shechem, looking south through Sellin’s ‘Palace’, with the people standing in the colonnaded hall (3 Feb 1954, ID: cBoerpShechem10.17, Source: photograph, Repository: NPAPH-Project, Creator: Leo Boer)Tell Balata between Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim (1957, ID: cTh.C.VriezenpShechemF57.30, Source: photograph, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Th. C. Vriezen)The village of Balata and Mount Gerizim. Photograph taken from Tell Balata (Shechem) (1957, ID: cTh.C.VriezenpShechemF57.103, Source: photograph, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Th. C. Vriezen)East Gate with the orthostats that once anchored the wooden gates at Shechem. Photograph taken from the western direction (1957, ID: cTh.C.VriezenpShechemF57.107, Source: photograph, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Th. C. Vriezen)Threefold North-West Gate and part of Cyclopean Wall. Photograph taken from the western direction (1957, ID: cTh.C.VriezenpShechemF57.106, Source: photograph, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Th. C. Vriezen)Temple entrance; piece of maṣṣebah at the bottom (1957, ID: Th.C.VriezenpShechemF57.105, Source: photograph, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Th. C. Vriezen)Balatah (1964, ID: cHuhgspShechem8, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Balatah (1964, ID: cHuhgspShechem7, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Camp; 4:15 a.m., view form sleeping tent at wake-up time. (1966, ID: cColepShechem044, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld I.4; Meter stick near 2 skeletons fallen in east gate during siege. (1966, ID: cColepShechem043, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld VI; Outside of MB west wall of city; view from west gate (see cColepShechem036). (1962, ID: cColepShechem042, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld VI.2; Balk shows tagged layers of Iron1 & LB occupation layers. (1962, ID: cColepShechem041, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld VI.2; Area cut from surface alongside MB ruins exposed in 1920s. (1962, ID: cColepShechem040, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld V; Drawing balk section of probe trench, MB wall in foreground. (1962, ID: cColepShechem039, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld V; Arab workmen digging probe pit below temple floor. (1960, ID: cColepShechem038, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld V; Cavity where temple pillar had been robbed out of Iron Age. (1960, ID: cColepShechem037, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)W. Gate; Looking through MB city gate into ancient city. (1962, ID: cColepShechem036, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld XIII.3; One area at end of season. (1966, ID: cColepShechem035, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld XIII; Senior Staff and area supervisor conferring. (1968, ID: cColepShechem034, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld XIII; Area team at work. (1968, ID: cColepShechem033, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld XIII.4; End of season LB surfaces and walls. (1966, ID: cColepShechem032, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld XIII.4; Two LB walls and tumbled upper-course boulders in center. (1966, ID: cColepShechem031, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld XIII.4; Stone-lined bin installation on LB floor (for large jar?). (1966, ID: cColepShechem030, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld XIII.4; Excavating deep LB chamber. (1966, ID: cColepShechem029, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld XIII.4; Excavating deep LB chamber. (1966, ID: cColepShechem029, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld XIII.2; Juglet beneath one surface lay on next earlier surface. (1966, ID: cColepShechem027, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld XIII,1; Tumbled boulders initially hid cornering Late Bronze walls. (1966, ID: cColepShechem026, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld XIII; End of six-week season. (1966, ID: cColepShechem025, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld XIII; Present surface at beginning of season. (1966, ID: cColepShechem024, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld XIII; Cole with 1960 Potshed worker, ’66 area team worker (photo taken of Cole on his camera by someone else). (1966, ID: cColepShechem023, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Report; Registered sherd shown on final report plate. (1966, ID: cColepShechem022, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Potshed; Each basket’s sherds dried in sun, most diagnostic ones boxed (Next steps in process shown on slides cColepHaliv107-109). (1960, ID: cColepShechem021, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Potshed; Pottery from each locus (note basket tag) washed separately. (1966, ID: cColepShechem020, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Potshed; Elderly pottery “runner” brings sherds from field to wash shed. (1960, ID: cColepShechem019, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Workroom; Object cleaning and recording. (1960, ID: cColepShechem018, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole) vision:outdoor=0714Fld VI.2; Area supervisor with visiting archaeologist Pere Roland de Vaux, Director of the Jerusalem French Dominican École Biblique, examining pit shown in No.16. (1962, ID: cColepShechem017, Source: slide Repository: NPAPH-project Creator: Dan P. Cole)Fld VI.2; Balk showing pit dug from 12th c. down to 16th c. BCE layers (Photo taken of Cole on his camera by someone else). (1962, ID: cColepShechem016, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld XIII.2; Portion of balk removed to expose junction of two walls. (1966, ID: cColepShechem015, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Tall ladder used (precariously) to photograph whole area. (1962, ID: cColepShechem014, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld IX; Grid of four 5×5 m. areas separated by 1 m. wide balks. (1962, ID: cColepShechem013, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld VI; Theodolite and range rod used to record elevations of remains. (1960, ID: cColepShechem012, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld V; Drawing being made to document successive layers. (1960, ID: cColepShechem011, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld VII; Scraped balk examined to note separation lines between layers. (1960, ID: cColepShechem010, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld VII; Small pick (patish) used to scape vertical side (balk) of area. (1960, ID: cColepShechem009, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld XIII; Big pick being used to trace earthen Iron Age surface. (1966, ID: cColepShechem008, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld VII; Probe beginning in defined smaller zone within area. (1960, ID: cColepShechem007, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld XIII.1; Typical area team of 1 American grad student supervisor and 8 workmen from local village and refugee camp. (1966, ID: cColepShechem006, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld VII Beginning several more 5-meter square areas to expand field (1962, ID: cColepShechem005, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Fld VII; Starting from tell surface with big pick to open 4-meter sq. Area. (1960, ID: cColepShechem004, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Camp; Evening staff session in schoolroom headquarters. (1960, ID: cColepShechem003, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Camp; Staff member’s quarters, ¼ tent space. (1966, ID: cColepShechem002, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Camp; Staff sleeping tents set on schoolyard of Balatah village. (1966, ID: cColepShechem001, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator(s): Dan P. Cole)Tricky business… Taking photos at Tell Balata excavation, 1968 (Dan Hughs)
Ending the campaign, Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgsDay67, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgsDay65, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgsDay57, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgsDay56, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgsDay55, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgsDay49, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Washing sherds, Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgsDay48, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgsDay47, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)1500-1475 BC, Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgsDay45, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Abraham, Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgsDay44, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)1450 BC, Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgsDay43, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgsDay42a, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgsDay42, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgsDay41, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgsDay40, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgsDay36, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgsDay35, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgsDay34, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgsDay33, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgsDay32, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgsDay31, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgsDay30, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgsDay29a, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgsDay28, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgsDay25, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgsDay23, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgsDay22, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgsDay21, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgsDay20a, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgsDay20, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgsDay19, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgsDay18, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgsDay17, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgsDay15, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgsDay14, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Transport to the site of Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgspShechem43, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgspShechem42, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Abraham (1964, ID: cHuhgspShechem41, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgspShechem40, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgspShechem39, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgspShechem38, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Field IX (1964, ID: cHuhgspShechem37, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Field VII (1964, ID: cHuhgspShechem36, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Field VII (1964, ID: cHuhgspShechem35, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Field XIII (1964, ID: cHuhgspShechem34, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgspShechem33, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgspShechem32, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Payday (1964, ID: cHuhgspShechem31, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgspShechem30, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgspShechem29, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgspShechem28, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgspShechem27, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgspShechem26, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgspShechem25, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgspShechem24, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgspShechem23, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgspShechem22, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgspShechem21, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgspShechem20, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgspShechem19, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgspShechem18, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgspShechem17, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)1450 BC (1964, ID: cHuhgspShechem16, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgspShechem15, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgspShechem14, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgspShechem13, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Last day; walls of MBIIC house (1964, ID: cHuhgspShechem12, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgspShechem11, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem (1964, ID: cHuhgspShechem10, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Field IX (1964, ID: cHuhgspShechem9, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Mount Ebal (1964, ID: cHuhgspShechem5, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Mount Ebal (1964, ID: cHuhgspShechem5, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Excavation of Shechem in the center below (1964, ID: cHuhgspShechem4, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Excavation of Shechem in the center below (1964, ID: cHuhgspShechem3, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)Shechem plain from Mount Ebal (1964, ID: cHuhgspShechem2, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: Dan Hughs)
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