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Site 30 is a multiphase site whose last phase was probably the last major operation smelting camp in Timna and one of its major smelting camps (Rothenberg 1980 called it one of the largest in the Aravah but this is not accurate) It extends to an approximate area of 5000 sqm and lies below a prominent hill with a long narrow knife shaped summit It is located a few hundred meters from the “Egy

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ptian sanctuary ” Site 200 The site is surrounded by a semi-circular wall with a north-facing gateway approximately in its middle The southern side of the site is protected by the natural steep slopes of the hill up which the wall climbs approximately 20 m before it abuts the cliffs Inside the wall the site hosts around 10 semi-circular to rectangular structures (between 5 m diameter or 10

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x3 m) that have gone through different stages of restoration There is one big slag mound with distinctly different slag types and stratification as well as a slag scatter Rothenberg excavated the site in 1974-76 (Bachmann and Rothenberg 1980) and dated the site’s activity to the Late Bronze Age due to its proximity to the Hathor Temple (Rothenberg 1980) Ben Yosef’s excavation at Site 30 in 2

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Descritpion_Rothenberg-1967

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Description_Cohen-Sasson-2017

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Bibliography

Verify, Rothenberg, 1967; 1972a; Glueck, 1935; Ben-Yosef et al., 2012; Rothenberg, 1980; Rothenberg, 1990; Rothenberg, 1985; Ben-Yosef et al., 2008; Cavanagh, 2016; Lernau et al., 2018; Grigson, 2012; רותנברג, 1967; Rothenberg, 1996-97; Yekutieli & sasson, 2010; בן-יוסף וחובריו, 2016; Shilstein et al., 2014

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