Editing Ekron (section)

{{Short description|Ancient Philistine city and modern archaeological site in Israel}}
{{About|the Philistine city}}
{{Lead too short|date=September 2021}}
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{{Infobox ancient site 
|name           = Ekron 
|native_name    = {{Script/Hebrew|עקרון}}<br>عقرون
|alternate_name = Tel Miqne/Mikne (Hebrew), Khirbet el-Muqanna (Arabic)
|map_type       = Israel
|map_alt=
|map_size       = 220 
|location       = Israel
|region         = [[Levant]], [[Israeli coastal plain]]
|coordinates    = {{coord|31.778890|34.8499203|display=inline}}
|type = |part_of = |length = |width = |area = |height = |builder = |material = |built = |abandoned = 
|epochs         = Chalcolithic - Iron Age 
|cultures       = [[Canaan]]ite, [[Philistine]], [[Israelite]] |dependency_of = |occupants = |event = |excavations = 
|archaeologists = Trude Dothan and Seymour Gitin 
|condition = |ownership = |public_access = |website = |notes = }}

'''Ekron''' ([[Philistine language|Philistine]]: 𐤏𐤒𐤓𐤍 ''*ʿAqārān'',<ref>{{cite book|author=Ahituv, Shmuel|title=Echoes from the Past: Hebrew and Cognate Inscriptions from the Biblical Period|year=2008|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2ma9HwAACAAJ|publisher=Carta|pages=338–9|isbn=978-965-220-708-1}}</ref>  {{langx|he|עֶקְרוֹן|translit=ʿEqrōn}}, {{langx|ar|عقرون}}), in the [[Hellenistic Palestine|Hellenistic]] period known as '''Accaron''' ({{langx|grc|Ακκαρων|Akkarōn|}})<ref>{{bibleverse|1 Maccabees|10:89}}</ref><ref>[https://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionary/accaron/ ''Accaron'', at Bible Study Tools]</ref> was at first a [[Canaan|Canaanite]], and later more famously a [[Philistine]] city, one of the five cities of the [[Philistia|Philistine Pentapolis]], located in present-day [[Israel]].

In 1957, Ekron was first identified with the mound of '''Khirbet el-Muqanna''' ([[Arabic]]) or '''Tel Miqne''' ([[Hebrew]]), near the depopulated [[Palestinian]] village of [['Aqir]], on the basis of the large size of the [[Iron Age]] archaeological remains;<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Naveh |first1=J. |title=Khirbat al-Muqanna'—Ekron: An Archaeological Survey |journal=Israel Exploration Journal |date=1958 |volume=8 |issue=2 |pages=87–100 |jstor=27924729 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=NAVEH |first1=J. |title=Khirbat al-Muqanna'—Ekron: An Archaeological Survey |journal=Israel Exploration Journal |date=1958 |volume=8 |issue=3 |pages=165–170 |jstor=27924741 }}</ref> the judgement was strengthened by the discovery in 1996 of the [[Ekron Royal Dedicatory Inscription |Ekron inscription]].<ref name= DoNa97/> The [[Tell (archaeology)|tell]] lies {{convert|35|km}} west of [[Jerusalem]], and {{convert|18|km}} north of [[Tel es-Safi]], the almost certain site of the Philistine city of [[Gath (city)|Gath]], on the grounds of Kibbutz [[Revadim]] on the eastern edge of the [[Israeli coastal plain]]. The other main cities of the Philistine Pentapolis beyond Ekron and Gath were [[Gaza City|Gaza]], [[Ascalon|Ashkelon]], and [[Ashdod (ancient city)|Ashdod]].