Roman Palestine (Archaeology)
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"This paper proposes three new (and tentatively, another two) identifications of sundials in Middle Eastern mosaics of the 5th – 8th century. The author discusses a vignette from the Holy Martyrs’ Church at Tayibat al-Imâm, central Syria,... more
Sundials in Roman and Byzantine Mosaics (1st – 9th Century AD). A scientific monograph. The sundials on ancient mosaics have not been the subject of scientific studies so far. The author has gathered together in this publication the... more
The late Antique mosaic of Orpheus decorated a small room, approximately 18 m2 in area, connected with two even smaller ones, in 4 m2 and the other 2 m2 in area, belonging most likely to a small funerary chapel (or tomb) discovered in the... more
The article focuses on the author's research on the chronographical background of the Zodiac Mosaic Calendar in Synagogue at Hammath-Tiberias. He researched to find the origin of mosaic decoration, the twelve zodiac sign, the four... more
A rereading of an oft-quoted passage of Epiphanius reveals that this author miscalculated the date of the destruction of Jerusalem, assigning it wrongly to 81/82. Therefore, when placing Hadrian’s journey to the East 47 years after the... more
Please note that major parts of this article have been thoroughly revised and updated in my 2015 book, At the Intersection of Texts and Material Fines, Stepped Pools, Stone Vessels, and Ritual Purity Among the Jews of Roman Galilee.
In honor of eminent archaeologist and historian of ancient Jewish art, Rachel Hachlili, friends and colleagues offer contributions in this festschrift which span the world of ancient Judaism both in Palestine and the Diaspora. Hachlili's... more
The first installation to be identified as an ancient Jewish ritual bath (miqweh) was discovered by Yigael Yadin at Masada in 1963–4, and consisted of a stepped pool connected to an adjacent pool via a hole in the wall shared by the two... more
This monograph is the final report of a series of salvage excavations which were conducted in the Jericho area from 1975 to 1979. The rescue work was concentrated along the lower slopes of the Judean hills west of the modem city of... more
The small columnar Building D1 discovered at Magdala in the early 1970s was first identified by the excavators as a mini-synagogue. Although Ehud Netzer has convincingly opposed this view, arguing that the building functioned as a... more
This study presents the results of an analysis of 487 soft limestone vessel fragments found in excavations at Late Second Temple-period Gamla in the Golan. A typology of hand-carved and lathe-turned vessels is provided, taking into... more
In Hebrew with an English Abstract
In this paper, I present an analysis of the household goods, including the daily wares and imported ceramics, lamps and small finds from the excavations of the residential quarter of the western summit at Sepphoris. The final volume of... more
This is the final report and analysis of the coin finds excavated at Yotvata between 2003-2007.
On August 14, 1990, during the final hour of the last day of nearly a decade of excavations at ancient Qasrin, a hoard of over 8,500 bronze coins was discovered. At the time of its discovery, this hoard was the third largest ever... more
In 1959, Antonio Frova, field director of the Italian archaeological expedition, started the excavation of the Roman Theater in Caesarea Maritima. Sixty years later, the current paper aims to reconsider its data related to the Herodian... more
This is my earliest discussion of how complexity theory can help refine our application of Ed Sanders' "Common Judaism" and, therefore, our approach to Early Judaism and Jewish Society.
In a special thematic issue of Journal of Ancient Judaism edited by Jonathan Kaplan and Kelley Coblentz Bautch. Modern commentators on the Vitae Prophetarum have tended to assume that every prophet’s burial in this text was considered... more
This article examines the iconography of a type of Caracalla tetradrachm that has been newly attributed to Neapolis in Roman Palestine and whose reverse depicts a monumental altar decorated with statues of Tyche, Ephesian Artemis, and... more