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Tel Gerisa ( Hebrew : תל גריסה ) or Tell Jerishe and Tell Jarisha (Arabic), commonly known as Tel Napoleon ( Hebrew : תל נפוליאון , lit. ' Napoleon 's Hill ' ), as his army camped on it during the siege of Jaffa , is an archaeological site in Tel Aviv , Israel , on the southern bank of the Yarkon River . The Tel measures c. 40 dunams . The main phases of the site are dated to the Middle and Late Bronze Ages , with a smaller settlement in Iron Age I and going into decline in Iron Age II ( 10th century BC E). Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Holy Land . Hadashot Arkheologiyot: Excavations and Surveys in Israel . 122 . "על השטחים החדשים שנספחו לחל־א3י3 | ידיעות עירית תל אביב | 14 אפריל 1946 | אוסף העיתונות | הספרייה הלאומית" .
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Tel Gerisa (alt. transliterations: Tell Jerishe, Tell Jarisha), also known as Napoleon's Hill, is a Middle Bronze Age archaeological site on the southern bank of the Yarkon River . Eliezer Sukenik led the excavations at the site between 1927 and 1950 as part of the Palestine Exploration Fund . Tel Aviv University Institute of Archaeology first excavated the site in 1976, and then from 1981 to 1995 under the direction of Ze'ev Herzog .
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Tel Gerisa (alt. transliterations: Tell Jerishe, Tell Jarisha), also known as Napoleon's Hill, is a Middle Bronze Age archaeological site on the southern bank of the Yarkon River , in Israel . Eliezer Sukenik led the excavations at the site between 1927 and 1950 as part of the Palestine Exploration Fund . Tel Aviv University Institute of Archaeology first excavated the site in 1976 ( Yigal Yadin and Shulamit Geva), and then from 1981 to 1995 under the direction of Ze'ev Herzog ."Gerisa has been identified ... with the Levitical city of Gath Rimmon" (Joshua 19:45) by Benjamin Mazar .
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Tel Napoleon in Ramat Gan Tel Gerisa (alternate transliterations: Tell Jerishe, Tell Jarisha), commonly known as Napoleon 's Hill (as his army camped on it during the siege of Jaffa ), is a Middle Bronze Age archaeological site on the southern bank of the Yarkon River , in Israel .
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Archaeological site in central Israel Tel Gerisa ( ) or Tell Jerishe and Tell Jarisha (Arabic), commonly known as Tel Napoleon ( ), as his army camped on it during the siege of Jaffa , is an archaeological site in Tel Aviv , Israel , on the southern bank of the Yarkon River .The main phases of the site are dated to the Middle and Late Bronze Ages , with a smaller settlement in Iron Age I and going into decline in Iron Age II ( 10th century BC E).
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middle bronze age archaeological site on the southern bank of the yarkon river
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