Feig (2021a) reports damage to the casemate walls of Stratum IIIB, interpreted as the result of seismic shaking. She estimated that the damaging event occurred “probably in the mid- eighth century BCE.” The underlying Stratum IV was dated on ceramic grounds to Iron Age II, “probably Iron IIA.” Overlying Stratum II preserved clear evidence that the damaged Stratum IIIB walls had been repaired, demonstrating that reconstruction took place after the destructive event. Because no signs of “destruction or devastation” attributable to the Assyrian conquest in 732 BCE were identified, the excavator suggested that the settlement may have been abandoned around that time rather than destroyed by Assyrian military action.