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Kamid al lawz

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Kamid al lawz (or Kamid el-Loz) is located in West

Bekaa, Lebanon. Its population numbers several

thousand, mostly Sunni, people.[1]

Contents

1 Archaeology

1.1 Cuneiform tablets

2 See also

3 References

4 Further reading

5 External links

Archaeology

This town was the site of major German archaeological

excavations between 1963 and 1981. One of the most

important sites in Lebanon where archaeologists found

and recorded many spectacular buildings, which are very

important to the history of the region. Paleolithic material

was found alongside Heavy Neolithic on through to the

late Neolithic period, becoming a seat of state in the Bronze

Age and continuing until the Byzantine era, a German team

from the University of Freiburg has conducted more recent

excavations and studies.[2]

Numerous urban structures such as defense systems, temples,

palaces, private dwellings, workshops and cemeteries were

uncovered. Archaeologists also found everyday objects such

as pottery, as well as jewelry and other luxury items.

Cuneiform tablets

Probably the most important finds were documents written in

cuneiform on clay tablets dated to the 14th century BC.[3]

The village of Kamed el-Loz lies on top of settlements built

in the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman periods. The site has

been determined to be the city of Kumidi in the Amarna

letters.[4][5] It was used as a residence to Egyptian officials to

oversee the southern Levantine kings for the pharaoh.

South of the village we find a necropolis or burial place that

also dates to this era. Just outside Kamed-El-Loz is a large

Umayyad quarry visible from the road. Rock-cut tombs can

be seen here, as well as Aramaic inscriptions. The quarry

Site notes

Condition ruins

Public access Yes

provided stones for the 8th century city of Anjar and was

worked by Nestorian Christians from Iraq who were brought

to the Beqaa for this purpose.

The archaeological site of Kamid al lawz I (referred to as

Kamed Loz I) is located 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) north-east of the village of Kamed Loz and 4.5 kilometres

(2.8 mi) north-northeast of Joub Jannine. The site showed a direct transition from Paleolithic material which

was mixed with flints from an aceramic, vigorous culture, little recorded in the archaeological record called the

Qaraoun culture inhabiting the area at the start of the Neolithic revolution. Heavy Neolithic flints from this

culture collected here included scrapers, picks and axes along with a large amount of debris. [6][7]

See also

Cities of the ancient Near East

References

1. "The Monthly: issue 91" (https://web.archive.org/web/20160304111732/http://www.localiban.org/IMG/pdf/iiMOnthly-

Municip-E91-Feb10.pdf) (PDF). Information International s.a.l. pp. 4, 7. Archived fromth e original (http://www.localiba

n.org/IMG/pdf/iiMOnthly-Municip-E91-Feb10.pdf )(PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 8 December 2015.

2. Barbara Ann Kipfer (2000). Encyclopedic dictionary of archaeology (https://books.google.com/books?id=XneTstDbcC0

C&pg=PA269). Springer. pp. 269–. ISBN 978-0-306-46158-3. Retrieved 2 May 2011.

3. Leon Gray (1 September 2010).T he New Cultural Atlas of Egyp t(https://books.google.com/books?id=zqYSQYXkai0C

&pg=PA180). Marshall Cavendish. pp. 180–.I SBN 978-0-7614-7877-5. Retrieved 1 May 2011.

4. Leila Badre (1980). Les figurines anthropomorphes en terre cuite à l'âge du Bronze en Syrie (https://books.google.com/

books?id=oUt9AAAAMAAJ). P. Geuthner. Retrieved 1 May 2011.

5. Wayne Thomas Pitard (May 1987).A ncient Damascus: a historical study of the Syrian city-state ofrm earliest times

until its fall to the Assyrians in 732 B.C.E .(https://books.google.com/books?id=sTfIqbSg6YcC&pg=AP62)

Eisenbrauns. pp. 62–. ISBN 978-0-931464-29-4. Retrieved 1 May 2011.

6. Moore, A.M.T. (1978). The Neolithic of the Levan t(http://ancientneareast.tripod.com/185.html.) Oxford University,

Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis. pp. 444–446.

7. L. Copeland; P. Wescombe (1966). Inventory of Stone-Age Sites in Lebanon: North, South and East-Central Lebano (nht

tps://books.google.com/books?id=qhPRQwAACAAJ. )Impr. Catholique. Retrieved 29 August 2011.