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Professor Alan Millard Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Dr. Bruce Routledge, Dr. Charlotte Whiting
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 156, No. 3, 2024)
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Chronology and Strategic Significance of the Hilltop Fortress, Umm Tawabin in Jordan: Some Conclusions from the 2015-2018 Survey and Excavations by the Ghor As-Safi Project Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Alexandra Ariotti
Umm Tawabin (‘Mother of Bread Ovens’ in Arabic) is a large fortress overlooking the Wadi ‘Arabah and southern Dead Sea in Jordan. From the time of its discovery by a Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF...
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The Four-Chambered Gate at Megiddo Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Matthew J. Adams, Israel Finkelstein, Eythan Levy
Work at Megiddo in 2018 shed light on Gate 3165 of Stratum VIA (late Iron I) and the six-chambered Gate 2156 of Strata VA-IVB and IVA (late Iron IIA and early Iron IIB). The disputed question of th...
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The Changing Character of Iron Age Jerusalem as Revealed in the Ophel Excavations Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Greg J. Wightman
Excavations by Benjamin and Eilat Mazar on the Ophel – south of the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount – have yielded important and substantial remains from the Iron Age. This area stands close to where ...
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A Dedication ‘to the Olympian Gods’ for Hadrian’s Sōtēria: Saluting the Emperor’s Rural Passage through Syria-Palestina Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Anthony Giambrone
An unpublished squeeze from the collection of the École biblique, recording a dedication to the ‘Olympian Gods’ for Hadrian's sōtēria, is here presented in conversation with two closely related ins...
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Bronze Anklets from Ḥorvat Tevet (Jezreel Valley): New Light on Exchange and Identity Construction in the Iron I Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Jordan Weitzel, Omer Sergi, Karen Covello-Paran, Hannes Bezzel, Omri Yagel, Yehudit Harlavan, Erez Ben-Yosef
This article presents the results of lead isotope analysis (LI) conducted on four bronze anklets from an early Iron Age burial (Burial D/F3) at the site of Ḥorvat Tevet, Israel. The results show th...
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How to Date a City Wall? The Case Study of Middle Bronze Age Lachish Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 Yosef Garfinkel
The so-called ‘Revetment’, is a massive wall that has been entirely exposed over a length of c. 2 km at Tel Lachish in the years 1933–4. Based on historical considerations and the well-known Sennac...
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Old Ground Plan - New Insights: The Central Church Compound in Shivta Revised Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 Emma Maayan-Fanar, Yotam Tepper
The three monumental churches of the Byzantine site of Shivta in the Negev Desert were fully excavated in the first third of the 20th century. Lacking the original archaeological reports, discussio...
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From Nabataeo-Arabic to Palaeo-Arabic: Two new pre-Islamic graffiti from the Jordanian Ḥarrah Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Abdullah Saad Alhatlani, Ali Al-Manaser
The main objective of this study is to shed light on two recently discovered graffiti, which were identified in the context of the Badia Epigraphic Survey (BES) project. These graffiti are Nabataeo...
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Preserving Palestinian Cultural Heritage: ‘The Memory of History’ Project Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Loay Abu Alsaud, Mahmoud Mustafa
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 156, No. 2, 2024)
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Barbara Lee Johnson (1943–2022) Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Ron Tappy, Sherry Whetstone, Samuel R. Wolff
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 156, No. 2, 2024)
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The Meṣad Ḥashavyahu Ostracon in its Regional, Economic, and Political Context Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Quinn Daniels
This article uses updated models of the 7th-century bce economy to argue that the harvesting activities reported in the Meṣad Ḥashavyahu ostracon occurred at a small grain-cultivating site located ...
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Hesi after 50 Years and 130 Years: Beginning a New Generation of Hesi Research, Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 J. Bjørnar Storfjell
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 156, No. 2, 2024)
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Acknowledgements Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-26
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 156, No. 1, 2024)
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Guest Editorial: Gaza's Cultural Heritage and Intellectual Life Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Felicity Cobbing, Linda Hulin
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 156, No. 1, 2024)
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Faynan, Nomads and the Western Negev in the Early Iron Age: A Critical Reappraisal Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Piotr Bienkowski, Juan Manuel Tebes
The final report on the Edom Lowlands Regional Archaeology Project concludes that local nomadic tribes created a complex polity at early Iron Age Faynan, in southern Jordan, that was responsible fo...
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An Iron Age II ceramic figurine from Umm Sweiwineh, Central Jordan Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Hashem Khries, Taher Al-Gonmeen
This paper assesses a typical Ammonite terracotta figurine discovered during the rescue excavation conducted at Umm Sweiwineh in the periphery of Amman in 2014 by the Department of Antiquities of J...
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Books Received Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-11
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 155, No. 4, 2023)
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Double Review: Re-Excavating Jerusalem: Archival Archaeology & Revealing the History of Ancient Palestine Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Chloe Emmott
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 155, No. 4, 2023)
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Investigating changing socio-economic landscapes from the Early Bronze I–III in the Levant through Zooarchaeology Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Gwendoline Maurer, Mariana Albuquerque
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 155, No. 4, 2023)
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Towards a Chronological Framing of the Two Mosques of Islamic Baydha Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Micaela Sinibaldi
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 155, No. 4, 2023)
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An Accidental Archaeologist: A Personal Memoir Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 John MacDermot
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 155, No. 4, 2023)
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Contributions to the Archaeology of Palestine by Overlooked Twentieth-Century Palestinian Archaeologists, Yusra Al-Ḥaifawiyah, Naṣr Dwekat and Ibrahim Al-Fanni Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Loay Abu Alsaud
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 155, No. 4, 2023)
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Jonathan Nicholas Tubb21st December, 1951 – 25th September, 2023 Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-11
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 155, No. 4, 2023)
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Ashkelon 8: The Islamic and Crusader Periods Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Ian W. N. Jones
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 155, No. 4, 2023)
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The Petra Hinterland Social Landscapes Project (PHSLP): Summary Report on the First Season, 2022 Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Will M. Kennedy
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 155, No. 3, 2023)
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The Road Taken: An Archaeologist’s Journey to the Land of the Bible Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 John MacDermot
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 155, No. 3, 2023)
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‘Sacred Landscapes’: The Umayyad Syro-Jordanian Hajj Roads to Mecca and their Pilgrim Camps (PEF 2020 Grant) and towards final publication of the Umayyad Syro-Jordanian Hajj Roads to Mecca and their Pilgrim Camps: Mapping ‘Sacred Landscapes’ (PEF 2021 Grant) Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Claudine Dauphin
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 155, No. 3, 2023)
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Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Stephen D. Sutton
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 155, No. 3, 2023)
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Caesarea Maritima Excavations in the Old City 1989-2003 Conducted by the University of Maryland and the University of Haifa, Final Reports. Volume 1 Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Jacopo Dolci
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 155, No. 3, 2023)
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Books Received Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-19
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 155, No. 3, 2023)
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Atlas of Palestine 1871-1877 Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Hana Sleiman, Nadi Abusaada
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 155, No. 2, 2023)
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Script and Society: The Social Context of Writing Practices in Late Bronze Age Ugarit Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Ola Wikander
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 155, No. 2, 2023)
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Professor Alan Millard retires from PEQ Editorial Advisory Board Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-13
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 155, No. 2, 2023)
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Acknowledgements Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-13
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 155, No. 2, 2023)
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Acknowledgements Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-22
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 155, No. 1, 2023)
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Strategies of Animal Exploitation in Late Iron Age IIA Ḥorvat Tevet (the Jezreel Valley) Reveal Patterns of Royal Economy in Early Monarchic Israel Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Abra Spiciarich, Omer Sergi, Karen Covello-Paran, Yoav Tsur, Hannes Bezzel, Lidar Sapir-Hen
Faunal remains from Ḥorvat Tevet, a site located in the rural hinterlands of the Jezreel Valley, reveal patterns of a complex redistributive apparatus during the Late Iron IIA. This paper assesses ...
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Nine new Byzantine Funerary Inscriptions from El-ʿIrāq (Southern Jordan) Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Musallam R. Al-Rawahneh, Gonzalo Fontana Elboj
This paper aims to bring to light and edit nine Byzantine funerary inscriptions discovered in the town of El-‘Irāq (western Governorate of Karak, southern Jordan). All these pieces belong to the pe...
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A Hiding Complex and Ritual Bath (Miqveh) at Ḥorvat Maskana and the Question of Their Use in the Byzantine Period Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Mechael Osband, Yinon Shivtiel
Parts of a subterranean hiding complex and a miqveh (ritual bath) were excavated at Ḥorvat Maskana in 2020. The Byzantine pottery from the excavation, along with the dating of the plaster, suggests...
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The 2011 Season of Excavation at Gadara (Umm Qais) of the Decapolis Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Lamia El-Khouri
This paper is a final report of the 2011 season of excavation at the archaeological site of Gadara (Umm Qais) in Jordan. The season was directed by Lamia El-Khouri (PhD), during the 15th of June un...
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Something old, something new: Ongoing revelations within the Faynan Landscape Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Alexis E. Dolphin, Russell B. Adams
The long-term research projects within the Faynan Basin of southern Jordan continue to yield new and unexpected finds of all periods. This report focuses upon the investigation of the region in the...
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In the Footsteps of Honor Frost: The Life and Legacy of a Pioneer in Maritime Archaeology Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Linda Hulin
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 155, No. 1, 2023)
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The Level V City Wall at Lachish Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Hoo-Goo Kang, Sang-Yeup Chang, Yosef Garfinkel
ABSTRACT In a recent article published in this journal (Finkelstein 2020, PEQ 152, 85–93), newly published data on Level V at Tel Lachish was criticized. This new data indicates that Level V was a fortified city and that radiometric dating places its construction in the last quarter of the 10th century bce. This date is in accordance with the biblical tradition describing the fortification of Lachish
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The Case of the Two Volute Capitals from Tel Hazor Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Doron Ben-Ami
ABSTRACT This article contests the interpretation of the two volute capitals discovered at Hazor in the late 1950s put forward by Kleiman (online 2021; print 2022), who viewed these monumental artworks in their secondary depositional location as silent testimony for a political shift experienced by the city in the Iron Age IIB. Unearthed in secondary use in Stratum VII and originally belonging in an
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John Bartlett, unintentional mentor Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 J Bjørnar Storfjell
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 154, No. 4, 2022)
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Rev. Professor John R Bartlett Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Graham I Davies, Felicity Cobbing, John MacDermot
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 154, No. 4, 2022)
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Dating the Fortress of Umm Tawabin, Jordan: Results of Radiocarbon Dating Analysis Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Alexandra Ariotti
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 154, No. 4, 2022)
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A Summary Report – PEF Grant: ‘Khirbat al-Mafjar Archaeological Project, Jericho’ Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Mahmoud Hawari
PROJECT ABSTRACT The Khirbat al-Mafjar Archaeological Project in Jericho (2009–2014) was initiated to achieve a better understanding of Hisham’s Palace within the context of its historical and cultural landscape, and the phenomenon of the Umayyad palaces in the Levant. Six seasons of landscape archaeological survey and excavations in the hinterland of the palace have revealed a large enclosure wall
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Agency, Kinship and the Case of the Northern Kingdom of Israel Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Erin Hall
Scholars who study the Northern Kingdom of Israel repeatedly refer to it as a centralised state or kingdom and often take a neo-evolutionary approach in their assessments of its character. This pap...
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The 2022 survey season at Khirbet al-Mudayna al-ʿAliya, Jordan Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-11-07 Diederik J. H. Halbertsma
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 154, No. 4, 2022)
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Juliusz Słowacki in the Holy Land in 1837 Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Elżbieta Jastrzębowska
The Polish poet Juliusz Słowacki (1809–1849) travelled through Palestine between 2 January and 27 January 1837, from El-Arish on the southern border with Egypt, at that time quarantined owing to pl...
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Miniature Terracotta Masks from the Decapolis City of Gerasa/Jerash, Jordan Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Adnan Shiyab, Saad Twaissi
ABSTRACT Masks have had a very long history in human culture. They differ in their form, function, and material through time, and from one culture to another. This paper brings attention to the newly discovered miniature terracotta masks from the classical Decapolis city of Gerasa/Jerash in Jordan dated to the Roman period. Here, four masks are introduced. The aim of this paper is to describe and to
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Some thoughts about Words Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-10-10 J Bjørnar Storfjell
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 154, No. 3, 2022)
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Why those who Shovel are Silent: A History of Local Archaeological Knowledge Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-10-10 J. A. Baird
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 154, No. 3, 2022)
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Acknowledgements Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-10-10
Published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (Vol. 154, No. 3, 2022)
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An Iron Age Stone Toilet Seat (the ‘Throne of Solomon’) from Captain Montagu Brownlow Parker’s 1909–1911 Excavations in Jerusalem Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-09-05 Shimon Gibson
This paper reconstructs the history of the publications relating to the results of Captain Montagu Brownlow Parker’s 1909–1911 excavations in Jerusalem, comprising the English and French versions o...
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Tatami: The Enigmatic Toponym of Western Judah, and Use of Suffixes in Dating Toponyms Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-08-31 Noam Agmon
Sometimes, all that remains from the history of a place is its name. Thus, toponyms may provide valuable information. Moving backward in time, we trace the ancient history of the Arab/Crusader vill...
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Sounds in the desert: New evidence of ambos in Shivta churches Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-08-19 Emma Maayan-Fanar, Yotam Tepper
A hexagonal marble object from the Rockefeller Museum, Jerusalem, found during excavations of H. D. Colt in the 1930s, has been identified as a canopy of an ambo. It probably belonged to one of the...
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‘Nevermind the Camel!’: The Hogarth Archive and the Wilderness of Zin Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-07-26 Adam John Fraser
ABSTRACT The recent acquisition of the Hogarth Archive by Magdalen College Archives provides new insights to be achieved on the extraordinary work of David George Hogarth as one of the preeminent scholars of the Balkans and Middle East in the last half of the 19th and the early 20th century. He was a committee member of the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) and director of the British Museum excavations
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On Olive Oil and Perfume Production in Iron Age IIA Tell es Safi/Gath, Israel Palestine Exploration Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-07-06 David Eitam
ABSTRACT The statement by Maeir and colleagues ‘that production of olive oil was a central aspect in the agricultural production in [Tell es-Safi/Gath] region already during the Iron I and Iron IIA’ (Maeir et al. 2020, 129) is being challenged here. The authors’ conclusions are examined by analysing the Iron Age IIA devices of Tell es-Safi/Gath, facing the development of olive oil production in Iron