This note supplements Geoffrey Movius' paper about Nancy Champion de Crespigny Movius that appear... more This note supplements Geoffrey Movius' paper about Nancy Champion de Crespigny Movius that appeared in the previous issue of Buried History. Some anecdotes are presented, especially as they relate to her participation in the excavations at Samaria in 1933. It is suggested that the person tentatively identified as Eliezer Sukenik in the staff photograph is in fact Nahman Reiss, later to become Nahman Avigad. Reiss's role in the excavations at Samaria is finally commented upon.
The ancient southern Levantine city of Gezer is well-known from Egyptian, Biblical and Assyrian s... more The ancient southern Levantine city of Gezer is well-known from Egyptian, Biblical and Assyrian sources, associated with power struggles, conquests, and intriguing tales involving figures such as Milkilu and Amenhotep III, Merneptah, the Philistines, Solomon and his unidentified pharaonic father-in-law, and Shishak / Sheshonq I. Since the identity of Gezer with "Tell Jezer" is quite literally 'set in stone' by some dozen boundary inscriptions, along with impressive Bronze and Iron Age remains, research at this site provides a unique opportunity to compare text and archaeology, as well as bring to light the undocumented everyday lives of the city's inhabitants. In this endeavour, independent scientific dating is crucial for anchoring the remains chronologically. This paper presents the first substantial radiocarbon dataset and Bayesian chronological analysis for Gezer spanning the last part of the Late Bronze Age (LBA; LB IIB) through Iron Age II. The dataset derives from an essentially continuous stratigraphic sequence exposed in recent years by the Tandy expedition along the central-southern edge of the site. The results allow us for the first time to independently determine the site chronology, test the viability (from a chronological perspective) of proposed historical correlations, and contribute to debates on Philistine and Iron Age chronology.
Une fouille de sauvetage menee en 1992 a Jerusalem a revele la presence d'une tombe rupestre ... more Une fouille de sauvetage menee en 1992 a Jerusalem a revele la presence d'une tombe rupestre situee entre Shuafat et Ramot, au nord de la ville, a 3 km au nord-ouest de la porte de Damas, contenant des ossuaires juifs, des recipients ceramiques et des lampes a huile en terre cuite. Cette tombe etait vraisemblablement celle d'occupants d'un habitat (IIe s. av. J.-C./Ier s. apr. J.-C.) recemment decouvert a 200 m. au nord
The Hebrew Union College (HUC) excavators of Gezer attributed the destruction of Stratum VI to th... more The Hebrew Union College (HUC) excavators of Gezer attributed the destruction of Stratum VI to the 734 BCE campaign of Tiglath-pileser III. They based this on the relief found at Nimrud depicting the event. Various scholars who for numerous reasons wished to lower the date of destruction to the end of the 8th century have subsequently challenged this attribution. This paper, concentrating on evidence revealed in the new Tandy excavations (especially oval storage jars, Phoenician torpedo amphoras and holemouth jars), substantiates the date proposed by the HUC excavators. Its ceramic assemblage, therefore, should be used as a chronological peg for furthering the discussion of the subdivision of ceramic typology within the Iron IIB.
... Ephraim Stern, editor, Ayelet Gilboa, assistant editor, and Joseph Aviram, editorial director... more ... Ephraim Stern, editor, Ayelet Gilboa, assistant editor, and Joseph Aviram, editorial director, deserve congratu-lations for producing this handsome four-volume work consisting of some 350 entries written by over 200 contributors. ...
The ancient southern Levantine city of Gezer is well-known from Egyptian, Biblical and Assyrian s... more The ancient southern Levantine city of Gezer is well-known from Egyptian, Biblical and Assyrian sources, associated with power struggles, conquests, and intriguing tales involving figures such as Milkilu and Amenhotep III, Merneptah, the Philistines, Solomon and his unidentified pharaonic father-in-law, and Shishak / Sheshonq I. Since the identity of Gezer with "Tell Jezer" is quite literally 'set in stone' by some dozen boundary inscriptions, along with impressive Bronze and Iron Age remains, research at this site provides a unique opportunity to compare text and archaeology, as well as bring to light the undocumented everyday lives of the city's inhabitants. In this endeavour, independent scientific dating is crucial for anchoring the remains chronologically. This paper presents the first substantial radiocarbon dataset and Bayesian chronological analysis for Gezer spanning the last part of the Late Bronze Age (LBA; LB IIB) through Iron Age II. The dataset derives from an essentially continuous stratigraphic sequence exposed in recent years by the Tandy expedition along the central-southern edge of the site. The results allow us for the first time to independently determine the site chronology, test the viability (from a chronological perspective) of proposed historical correlations, and contribute to debates on Philistine and Iron Age chronology.
Excavation of a Persian period cemetery (fifth century BCE) at el-Muntar el-Abyad in Beth Shan (J... more Excavation of a Persian period cemetery (fifth century BCE) at el-Muntar el-Abyad in Beth Shan (Jordan Valley, Israel) yielded five examples of torpedo-shaped, one-handled vessels. This is a rare type with parallels coming mainly from the southern Levant and Cyprus. Petrographic analysis indicates that the vessels from Beth Shan were manufactured both in the Jordan Valley and also in central Israel. Functionally, they contained a product destined to accompany the interred person into the netherworld. Morphologically, they could be defined as amphorae, storage jars or maritime transport containers.
The Hebrew Union College (HUC) excavators of Gezer attributed the destruction of Stratum VI to th... more The Hebrew Union College (HUC) excavators of Gezer attributed the destruction of Stratum VI to the 734 BCE campaign of Tiglath-pileser III. They based this on the relief found at Nimrud depicting the event. Various scholars who for numerous reasons wished to lower the date of destruction to the end of the 8th century have subsequently challenged this attribution. This paper, concentrating on evidence revealed in the new Tandy excavations (especially oval storage jars, Phoenician torpedo amphoras and holemouth jars), substantiates the date proposed by the HUC excavators. Its ceramic assemblage, therefore, should be used as a chronological peg for furthering the discussion of the subdivision of ceramic typology within the Iron IIB.
a pioneer archaeologist who excavated in Palestine in the early part of the twentieth century on ... more a pioneer archaeologist who excavated in Palestine in the early part of the twentieth century on behalf of the Palestine Exploration Fund, is a controversial figure in the annals of the historiography of the period. A workshop was held in Jerusalem in December 2012 to commemorate the 100 th anniversary of the appearance of his magnum opus, The Excavations at Gezer I-III. Should Macalister's work in Palestine be viewed as a success or a failure? The various opinions expressed by several experts in the workshop on this subject are presented in this article. • 114 Museum Exhibit Review Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Agẽ
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
A. Ferjaoui and T. Redissi eds. La vie, la mort et la religion dans l’univers phénicien et punique: Actes du VIIème congrès international des études phéniciennes et puniques. Hammamet, 9–14 novembre 2009, Vol. II: Production et relations commerciales. Tunis. Institut National du Patrimoine., 2019
Several types of Punic amphoras have been defined by Pierre Cintas, José Maña, Joan Ramón Torres ... more Several types of Punic amphoras have been defined by Pierre Cintas, José Maña, Joan Ramón Torres and others. This paper is concerned only with Maña Type C/Ramón Type 7 amphoras, with its cigar-shaped body, two handles attached in the upper third of the body, pointed toe and outflaring rim (fig. 1). For the purposes of this paper, the various subdivisions of this type and their fabrics, important topics that they are, will not be discussed since these subjects are irrelevant to the main points made within. Two scholars have questioned the proposition that Maña C/ Ramón 7 amphoras were used as shipping containers. Susan Rotroff, in her publication of the pottery from the Mahdia shipwreck published in 1994, writes that "Maña C-2 amphoras, with their thin walls and wide mouths, were not designed for large-scale, long-distance transport, and they are not found in large quantities on sunken ships; a number of wrecks carried only one or two examples among a cargo of hundreds of amphoras. They seem, then, generally to have been taken aboard as part of the ship's supplies" 2. Anna Margarite McCann, writing about a similar amphora found at Skerki Bank, located 80 km northwest of Sicily, echoes similar thoughts: "These thin-walled amphoras with wide mouths are not found in large quantities on ancient shipwrecks, indicating that they were probably taken on board as ship's supplies rather than cargo" 3. The fact that these observations were made by two renowned scholars makes them worthy of further discussion. These statements can be broken down into two parts; first, that the design of Maña C/Ramón 7 amphoras was not conducive to long-distance shipping in the holds of ships, and second, that their small numbers on shipwrecks imply that they were part of the crew's equipment. These points will be discussed one by one. First, about the design of these amphoras. It is true that their shape is far from classicalshaped Greek and Roman amphoras, but it is also true that Maña C/Ramón 7 amphoras were not a short-lived experiment in ceramic production. This type was produced for at least 200 years, so it was successful from a utilitarian point of view. The same could be said of all Punic amphora types. For a non-Punic parallel to a seemingly ill-designed amphora type that lasted for four centuries one could mention the basket handled amphora, a type that originated in Cyprus around the end of the eighth century BC and continued to be manufactured and distributed throughout the eastern Mediterranean until the third century BC 4 , this despite the fact that it was an extraordinarily
This note supplements Geoffrey Movius' paper about Nancy Champion de Crespigny Movius that appear... more This note supplements Geoffrey Movius' paper about Nancy Champion de Crespigny Movius that appeared in the previous issue of Buried History. Some anecdotes are presented, especially as they relate to her participation in the excavations at Samaria in 1933. It is suggested that the person tentatively identified as Eliezer Sukenik in the staff photograph is in fact Nahman Reiss, later to become Nahman Avigad. Reiss's role in the excavations at Samaria is finally commented upon.
The ancient southern Levantine city of Gezer is well-known from Egyptian, Biblical and Assyrian s... more The ancient southern Levantine city of Gezer is well-known from Egyptian, Biblical and Assyrian sources, associated with power struggles, conquests, and intriguing tales involving figures such as Milkilu and Amenhotep III, Merneptah, the Philistines, Solomon and his unidentified pharaonic father-in-law, and Shishak / Sheshonq I. Since the identity of Gezer with "Tell Jezer" is quite literally 'set in stone' by some dozen boundary inscriptions, along with impressive Bronze and Iron Age remains, research at this site provides a unique opportunity to compare text and archaeology, as well as bring to light the undocumented everyday lives of the city's inhabitants. In this endeavour, independent scientific dating is crucial for anchoring the remains chronologically. This paper presents the first substantial radiocarbon dataset and Bayesian chronological analysis for Gezer spanning the last part of the Late Bronze Age (LBA; LB IIB) through Iron Age II. The dataset derives from an essentially continuous stratigraphic sequence exposed in recent years by the Tandy expedition along the central-southern edge of the site. The results allow us for the first time to independently determine the site chronology, test the viability (from a chronological perspective) of proposed historical correlations, and contribute to debates on Philistine and Iron Age chronology.
Une fouille de sauvetage menee en 1992 a Jerusalem a revele la presence d'une tombe rupestre ... more Une fouille de sauvetage menee en 1992 a Jerusalem a revele la presence d'une tombe rupestre situee entre Shuafat et Ramot, au nord de la ville, a 3 km au nord-ouest de la porte de Damas, contenant des ossuaires juifs, des recipients ceramiques et des lampes a huile en terre cuite. Cette tombe etait vraisemblablement celle d'occupants d'un habitat (IIe s. av. J.-C./Ier s. apr. J.-C.) recemment decouvert a 200 m. au nord
The Hebrew Union College (HUC) excavators of Gezer attributed the destruction of Stratum VI to th... more The Hebrew Union College (HUC) excavators of Gezer attributed the destruction of Stratum VI to the 734 BCE campaign of Tiglath-pileser III. They based this on the relief found at Nimrud depicting the event. Various scholars who for numerous reasons wished to lower the date of destruction to the end of the 8th century have subsequently challenged this attribution. This paper, concentrating on evidence revealed in the new Tandy excavations (especially oval storage jars, Phoenician torpedo amphoras and holemouth jars), substantiates the date proposed by the HUC excavators. Its ceramic assemblage, therefore, should be used as a chronological peg for furthering the discussion of the subdivision of ceramic typology within the Iron IIB.
... Ephraim Stern, editor, Ayelet Gilboa, assistant editor, and Joseph Aviram, editorial director... more ... Ephraim Stern, editor, Ayelet Gilboa, assistant editor, and Joseph Aviram, editorial director, deserve congratu-lations for producing this handsome four-volume work consisting of some 350 entries written by over 200 contributors. ...
The ancient southern Levantine city of Gezer is well-known from Egyptian, Biblical and Assyrian s... more The ancient southern Levantine city of Gezer is well-known from Egyptian, Biblical and Assyrian sources, associated with power struggles, conquests, and intriguing tales involving figures such as Milkilu and Amenhotep III, Merneptah, the Philistines, Solomon and his unidentified pharaonic father-in-law, and Shishak / Sheshonq I. Since the identity of Gezer with "Tell Jezer" is quite literally 'set in stone' by some dozen boundary inscriptions, along with impressive Bronze and Iron Age remains, research at this site provides a unique opportunity to compare text and archaeology, as well as bring to light the undocumented everyday lives of the city's inhabitants. In this endeavour, independent scientific dating is crucial for anchoring the remains chronologically. This paper presents the first substantial radiocarbon dataset and Bayesian chronological analysis for Gezer spanning the last part of the Late Bronze Age (LBA; LB IIB) through Iron Age II. The dataset derives from an essentially continuous stratigraphic sequence exposed in recent years by the Tandy expedition along the central-southern edge of the site. The results allow us for the first time to independently determine the site chronology, test the viability (from a chronological perspective) of proposed historical correlations, and contribute to debates on Philistine and Iron Age chronology.
Excavation of a Persian period cemetery (fifth century BCE) at el-Muntar el-Abyad in Beth Shan (J... more Excavation of a Persian period cemetery (fifth century BCE) at el-Muntar el-Abyad in Beth Shan (Jordan Valley, Israel) yielded five examples of torpedo-shaped, one-handled vessels. This is a rare type with parallels coming mainly from the southern Levant and Cyprus. Petrographic analysis indicates that the vessels from Beth Shan were manufactured both in the Jordan Valley and also in central Israel. Functionally, they contained a product destined to accompany the interred person into the netherworld. Morphologically, they could be defined as amphorae, storage jars or maritime transport containers.
The Hebrew Union College (HUC) excavators of Gezer attributed the destruction of Stratum VI to th... more The Hebrew Union College (HUC) excavators of Gezer attributed the destruction of Stratum VI to the 734 BCE campaign of Tiglath-pileser III. They based this on the relief found at Nimrud depicting the event. Various scholars who for numerous reasons wished to lower the date of destruction to the end of the 8th century have subsequently challenged this attribution. This paper, concentrating on evidence revealed in the new Tandy excavations (especially oval storage jars, Phoenician torpedo amphoras and holemouth jars), substantiates the date proposed by the HUC excavators. Its ceramic assemblage, therefore, should be used as a chronological peg for furthering the discussion of the subdivision of ceramic typology within the Iron IIB.
a pioneer archaeologist who excavated in Palestine in the early part of the twentieth century on ... more a pioneer archaeologist who excavated in Palestine in the early part of the twentieth century on behalf of the Palestine Exploration Fund, is a controversial figure in the annals of the historiography of the period. A workshop was held in Jerusalem in December 2012 to commemorate the 100 th anniversary of the appearance of his magnum opus, The Excavations at Gezer I-III. Should Macalister's work in Palestine be viewed as a success or a failure? The various opinions expressed by several experts in the workshop on this subject are presented in this article. • 114 Museum Exhibit Review Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Agẽ
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
A. Ferjaoui and T. Redissi eds. La vie, la mort et la religion dans l’univers phénicien et punique: Actes du VIIème congrès international des études phéniciennes et puniques. Hammamet, 9–14 novembre 2009, Vol. II: Production et relations commerciales. Tunis. Institut National du Patrimoine., 2019
Several types of Punic amphoras have been defined by Pierre Cintas, José Maña, Joan Ramón Torres ... more Several types of Punic amphoras have been defined by Pierre Cintas, José Maña, Joan Ramón Torres and others. This paper is concerned only with Maña Type C/Ramón Type 7 amphoras, with its cigar-shaped body, two handles attached in the upper third of the body, pointed toe and outflaring rim (fig. 1). For the purposes of this paper, the various subdivisions of this type and their fabrics, important topics that they are, will not be discussed since these subjects are irrelevant to the main points made within. Two scholars have questioned the proposition that Maña C/ Ramón 7 amphoras were used as shipping containers. Susan Rotroff, in her publication of the pottery from the Mahdia shipwreck published in 1994, writes that "Maña C-2 amphoras, with their thin walls and wide mouths, were not designed for large-scale, long-distance transport, and they are not found in large quantities on sunken ships; a number of wrecks carried only one or two examples among a cargo of hundreds of amphoras. They seem, then, generally to have been taken aboard as part of the ship's supplies" 2. Anna Margarite McCann, writing about a similar amphora found at Skerki Bank, located 80 km northwest of Sicily, echoes similar thoughts: "These thin-walled amphoras with wide mouths are not found in large quantities on ancient shipwrecks, indicating that they were probably taken on board as ship's supplies rather than cargo" 3. The fact that these observations were made by two renowned scholars makes them worthy of further discussion. These statements can be broken down into two parts; first, that the design of Maña C/Ramón 7 amphoras was not conducive to long-distance shipping in the holds of ships, and second, that their small numbers on shipwrecks imply that they were part of the crew's equipment. These points will be discussed one by one. First, about the design of these amphoras. It is true that their shape is far from classicalshaped Greek and Roman amphoras, but it is also true that Maña C/Ramón 7 amphoras were not a short-lived experiment in ceramic production. This type was produced for at least 200 years, so it was successful from a utilitarian point of view. The same could be said of all Punic amphora types. For a non-Punic parallel to a seemingly ill-designed amphora type that lasted for four centuries one could mention the basket handled amphora, a type that originated in Cyprus around the end of the eighth century BC and continued to be manufactured and distributed throughout the eastern Mediterranean until the third century BC 4 , this despite the fact that it was an extraordinarily
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he worked. Needless to say, his lack of academic training had an effect on his field methodology,... more he worked. Needless to say, his lack of academic training had an effect on his field methodology, or lack thereof, which is described in chapter 4. While describing the recording system employed by Free in that chapter, D. Master sets the reader up for the difficulties encountered in dealing with the site's stratigraphy. Reading between the lines, and reading the lines themselves, this reviewer gets the impression that Free had no idea how to organize, lead, excavate, and publish an excavation. This made the authors' task of reconstructing the site's history more difficult, and it is only through diligent efforts that they were able to present well-argued reconstructions for each of the 17 strata revealed at the site.
Tel Dover (Khirbet ed-Duweir) on the Yarmuk River: The Late Bronze and Iron Age Levels (Ägypten und Altes Testament 130). Münster (with A. Golani)., 2025
Tel Dover (Khirbet ed-Duweir) on the Yarmuk River: The Late Bronze and Iron Age Levels (Ägypten und Altes Testament 130). Münster (with A. Golani)., 2025
Tel Dover (Khirbet ed-Duweir) on the Yarmuk River: The Late Bronze and Iron Age Levels (Ägypten und Altes Testament 130). Münster (with A. Golani)., 2025
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