Tel Erani (Hebrew: תל עירני) or Tell esh-Sheikh Ahmed el-ʿAreini (Arabic: تل الشيخ أحمد العريني) is a multi-period archaeological site on the outskirts of Kiryat Gat in the Southern District of Israel.

[2] Tel Erani was first documented by Claude Reignier Conder and Herbert Kitchener in their 1872–1877 survey for the Palestine Exploration Fund.

[3] In 1921, William F. Albright argued that the site was a poor fit with Libnah, and instead proposed it was the major Philistine city of Gath.

Press, concludes that Tel Erani, by way of a transformation of its name, may have been the 1st-century Idumean town of Sallis (= Shiḥlayim) mentioned by Josephus (The Jewish War 3.2.2.

[5] A citadel (acropolis) was once built at the site,[6] making it a likely place of refuge for a retreating army en route from Ascalon to Jerusalem.

In the late 1950s, Shmuel Yeivin opened excavations at the site (then known as Tel Gat) to confirm Albright's identification.