Podium at the City Gate

Podium at the City Gate

View looking west at the (reconstructed) podium that Avraham Biram discovered at the city gate of Dan.

It is very possible that the king, or some other official, sat on this podium hearing legal cases (2 Sam 19:9). The decorated stone bases at the corners of the podium supported columns as the reconstruction illustrates.

To view this area prior to reconstruction Click Here.

For a detail of one of the original stone bases Click Here.

For a map, and brief descriptive comments on the history of Dan Click Here.


Image from the Zondervan Atlas of the Bible, p. 150. To view/use additional images from the Atlas Click Here.