Tell Abu Hawam

Tell Abu Hawam
תל אבו הואם (Hebrew)
Interactive map of Tell Abu Hawam
32°48′03″N 35°01′09″E
Type	Tell
Periods	Antiquity
Cultures	Canaan Phoenicia
Location	Haifa Bay, Haifa, Israel
Region	Levant
Site notes
Excavation dates	1932
Archaeologists	Robert Hamilton Emmanuel Anati Moshe Prausnitz
Management	Israel Antiquities Authority

Tell Abu Hawam is the site of a small city established in the Late Bronze Age (circa 1600 BCE) in the area of modern-day Haifa, Israel. It was known to the Crusaders as Latin: Cayphas Vetusta (Ancient Haifa) and Latin: Vetus Cayphas (Old Haifa).

It existed as a port city and a fishing village, and was moved in the late 11th century to the site which became known as Haifa el-Atika.

The site was excavated by a British expedition from 1929 to 1933.

Archaeology

During the 1929-1933 British excavations, a black-glazed bowl of the "fish-plate" type was uncovered, featuring a Phoenician graffito scratched on its underside. It is suggested that the bowl may originate from the 4th or 3rd century BCE.

Gallery

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  Tell Abu Hawam Plan 1932
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  Jars excavated from the site of Tell Abu Hawam
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  Tell Abu Hawam drawn by William Henry Bartlett
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  Survey of Palestine 1929 (Tell Abu Hawam on bottom right, next to a Leather Factory)
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  Survey of Palestine (1:10,000), 1929, showing the tell in the bottom right, on the western edge of the Kishon River

See also

• History of Haifa
• List of Phoenician cities
• Tel Shikmona

Further reading

• Encyclopedia Judaica, Haifa, Keter Publishing, Jerusalem, 1972, vol. 7, pp. 1134–1139
• The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land, Volume 5, article Abu Hawam p 1553

External links

• Tell Abu Hawam at the National Library of Israel