This article by Frankie Snyder, Jordan McClinton, and Clayton Van Huss was published in Judea and Samaria Research Studies, Volume 34, No. 1 (2025)
This article is a preliminary report on five gold objects believed to be from the Late Bronze Age, discovered during the 2022 and 2023 excavation seasons at Shiloh (Khirbet Seilun) by the Associates for Biblical Research (ABR) under the direction of Scott Stripling. Four of the objects originated in Area D1, supervised by Jordan McClinton; the other was found in the wet-sifting dump area by Ellen Jackson, the site’s metal detectorist, and may also have originated in Area D1. Of the four gold objects from Area D1, one was discovered during excavation, one during wet-sifting, and two during metal detecting. Two other items of jewelry included in this report, also found in Area D1, are a mother-of-pearl ring pendant and a turquoise faience melon bead. The jewelry from Shiloh most closely parallels items in Late Bronze Age hoards discovered at Tell el-Ajjul and in the Lachish Fosse Temple.
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