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Title
Jericho
,
great
stone
tower
built
into
settlement
wall
.
Date
8000-7000 BCE?
Cultural Context
Palestinian
Middle Eastern
Style/Period
Neolithic
Stone Age
Theme
Architecture (object genre)
Architectural elements
Towers (building divisions)
Walls
City walls
Defensive walls
Fortifications
Overhead views
Subject
Architecture
Architectural elements
Towers
Walls
City walls
Forts & fortifications
Description
"As the
town's
wealth
grew
and
powerful
neighbors
established
themselves
, the
need
for
protection
resulted
in the
first
known
permanent
stone
fortifications
. By
approximately
7500
BCE
, the
town
,
estimated
to have had a
population
of
more
than
2,000
people
, was
surrounded
by a
wide
rock-cut
ditch
and a
5-foot-thick
wall
. Into this
wall
,
which
has been
preserved
to a
height
of
almost
13
feet
, was
built
a
great
circular
stone
tower
,
28
feet
high
.
Almost
33
feet
in
diameter
at the
base
, the
tower
has an
inner
stairway
leading
to its
summit
. Not
enough
of the
site
has been
excavated
to
determine
whether
this
tower
was
solitary
or
one
of
several
similar
towers
that
formed
a
complete
defense
system
. In
either
case
, a
structure
such
as this,
built
with
only
simple
stone
tools
, was a
tremendous
technological
achievement.
"
(Excerpt
,
p.25)
Location Depicted
Jericho
West Bank
Palestine
Jordan River Valley
Material
Stone (rock)
Rock
Measurements
28 feet high; almost 33 feet in diameter at the base
Work Type
Architecture
Towers
Walls
City walls
Forts & fortifications
Source
Kleiner, Fred S., and Christin J. Mamiya. Gardner's Art Through the Ages. 12th ed. Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2005. (fig.1-14, p.25)
Rights
Photo credit/reproduced in Kleiner courtesy: Archivio e Studio Folco Quilici, Roma.
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format
image/jpeg
Digital File Name
VRC
325-27.jpg
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