Ashdod-yam

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Ashdod-Yam is an Iron Age archaeological site on the Mediterranean coast of Israel about 5 kilometres southwest of Tel Ashdod (site of one of the ancient cities of the Philistines) and about 2 kilometres south of the modern city of Ashdod. The site is mentioned in documents from the time of Sargon II of Assyria when in 713 BCE the Assyrian king speaks of having to depose a usurper who had taken over control of the city of Ashdod and had fortified it, Gath, and Ashdod-Yam.

The site was excavated by Jacob Kaplan from 1965 to 1968 on behalf of the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Museum of Antiquities. Finds at the site include sections of city fortification walls and a glacis. Pottery found at the site suggests that the fortifications were constructed in the second half of the eighth century BCE and that a second phase of occupation occurred during the seventh century BCE when the site was no longer fortified.

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H. Tadmor, Journal of Cuneiform Studies 22 (1958): pp. 70-80 J. Kaplan, Israel Exploration Journal 19 (1969): pp. 137-149 L. Y. Rahmani, Israel Exploration Journal 37 (1987): pp. 133-134. The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land. Jerusalem: The Israel Exploration Society and Carta: pp. 102-103