Four room house
The Four room house is the name given to the typical mud brick or stone Israelite house in the iron age Levant.[1] It is so named because its floor plan, the only portion typically remaining in excavated archeological sites, is divided into four sections. It is also called a pillared house because three ground-level "rooms" are separated by two rows of wood pillars holding the second floor.
The house masters lived on the second floor, the ground floor being used as a manger for animals and for storage.
References
- ^ Bunimovitz, Schlomo; Avraham Faust (2003). "The four room house: Embodying Iron Age israelite society". Near Eastern archaeology (Scholars Press, Atlanta, GA) 66 (1-2): 22–31. doi:10.2307/3210929. JSTOR 3210929.
External links
- Archeological remnants: [1], [2].
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See also: WP:Jewish history
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