The remains of a shrine located in the Iron IIB six-chamber gate at Lachish were recently published by Ganor and Kreimerman (2019). The excavators proposed that the chamber had a hierarchical layout comparable to that of the Arad sanctuary, and that the shrine and its cult furnishings had been desecrated in the course of Hezekiah’s cult reform. However, a critical re-evaluation of the published data indicates that (1) the inner plan of the chamber did not possess a hierarchical, three-part division with a ‘holy of holies’; and (2) the chamber was destroyed during the Assyrian campaign in 701 BCE without any indication of cultic reform. Bearing in mind the data from Ussishkin’s excavations, it is further suggested that two shrines were actually located in the gate—one on each side of the gateway—and that they were probably utilized in purification rituals by people entering the city. The two shrines at Lachish can be compared to the evidence from contemporaneous Kuntillet >Ajrud, which shows parallels in terms of architectural layout and cult paraphernalia.

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拉吉的 IIB 铁门神殿：另一种解释

最近，Ganor 和 Kreimerman（2019 年）出版了位于 Lachish 的 Iron IIB 六腔门内的神殿遗迹。挖掘者提出，该密室的等级布局与阿拉德圣所的等级相当，并且在希西家的邪教改革过程中，神殿及其祭祀用品已被亵渎。 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 然而，对已发表数据的批判性重新评估表明：(1) 密室的内部计划不具有“至圣所”的等级、三部分划分；(2) 密室在公元前 701 年的亚述战役中被摧毁，没有任何宗教改革迹象。牢记乌西什金发掘的数据，进一步表明，实际上有两座神殿位于城门内——城门两侧各有一座——而且它们很可能被进入城市的人们用于净化仪式。Lachish 的两座神殿可以与同时代的 Kuntillet > Ajrud 的证据进行比较，后者在建筑布局和崇拜用具方面表现出相似之处。