TEL AVIV

TEL AVIV [JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY OF TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY] TEL AVIV VOLUME XXVII/1 (2000) CONTENTS R. SHIMELMITZ - R. BARKAI - A. GOPHER A Canaanean Blade Workshop at Har ðaruvim, Israel ................................................................................. NILI LIPHSCHITZ - GEORGES BONANI Dimensions of Olive (Olea Europaea) Stones as a Reliable Parameter to Distinguish between Wild and Cultivated Varieties: Further Evidence ............................................................................................. RAM GOPHNA - EYAL BUZAGLO A Note on an Egyptian Pottery Basin from cEn Besor .................................................................................. ALEXANDER FANTALKIN A Salvage Excavation at an Early Bronze Age Settlement on Ha-Shophtim Street, Qiryat cAta ................. Appendix: MOSHE SADEH Animal Bones from Qiryat cAta, Area L .......................................................................................... HERMANN MICHAEL NIEMANN Megiddo and Solomon: A Biblical Investigation in Relation to Archaeology .............................................. ERNST AXEL KNAUF Jerusalem in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages: A Proposal .................................................................... IANIR MILEVSKI The Mana|at and Gezer Cylinder Seals and Further Levantine Glyptics ...................................................... 3 23 26 28 57 61 75 91 YIZHAR HIRSCHFELD A Settlement of Hermits above cEn Gedi ....................................................................................................... 103 List of Abbreviations ...................................................................................................................................... 156 VOLUME XXVII/2 (2000) CONTENTS NADAV NA’AMAN - RAN ZADOK Assyrian Deportations to the Province of Samerina in the Light of Two Cuneiform Tablets from Tel Hadid …………………………………………………………………………………………………. 159 ALON SHAVIT Settlement Patterns in the Ayalon Valley in the Bronze and Iron Ages ........................................................ 189 ISRAEL FINKELSTEIN Hazor XII-XI with an Addendum on Ben-Tor's Dating of Hazor X-VII ....................................................... 231 -1- DAVID USSISHKIN The Credibility of the Tel Jezreel Excavations: A Rejoinder to Amnon Ben-Tor ........................................ 248 ALEXANDER FANTALKIN A Salvage Excavation at a 6th-7th Century C.E. Site on Palmach Street, Beersheba ................................... 257 DAVID AMIT - JODI MAGNESS Not a Settlement of Hermits or Essenes: A Response to Y. Hirschfeld, A Settlement of Hermits above cEn Gedi ................................................................................................................................................... 273 YIZHAR HIRSCHFELD The Archaeology of Hermits: A Reply .......................................................................................................... 286 Brief Excavation Reports ............................................................................................................................... 292 List of Abbreviations ...................................................................................................................................... 297 -2- VOLUME XXVIII/1 (2001) CONTENTS ALEXANDER FANTALKIN Me©ad ðashavyahu: Its Material Culture and Historical Background A. History of Research ...................................................................................................................... 3 B. Stratigraphy and Architecture ...................................................................................................... 8 C. The Finds ...................................................................................................................................... 52 D. Conclusions: Chronological-Historical Background ................................................................... 128 List of Abbreviations ...................................................................................................................................... 166 VOLUME XXVIII/2 (2001) CONTENTS OKTAY BELLI - ERKAN KONYAR Excavations at Van-Yoncatepe Fortress and Necropolis ............................................................................... 169 MICHAEL SEBBANE Board Games from Canaan in the Early and Intermediate Bronze Ages and the Origin of the Egyptian Senet Game ....................................................................................................................................... 213 ISRAEL FINKELSTEIN - LILY SINGER-AVITZ Ashdod Revisited ........................................................................................................................................... 231 NADAV NA’AMAN An Assyrian Residence at Ramat Ra|el?........................................................................................................ 260 ERNST AXEL KNAUF Hezekiah or Manasseh? A Reconsideration of the Siloam Tunnel and Inscription ....................................... 281 GABRIEL BARKAY - MIYOUNG IM Egyptian Influence on the Painted Human Figures from Kuntillet cAjrud .................................................... 288 AMNON BEN-TOR Responding to Finkelstein's Addendum (on the Dating of Hazor X-VII) ..................................................... 301 NILI LIPHSCHITZ - GEORGES BONANI Wild and Cultivated Date Palm (Phoenix Dactylifera) from Qumran Cave 24 ............................................ 305 Brief Excavation Reports ............................................................................................................................... 310 List of Abbreviations ...................................................................................................................................... 313 -3- VOLUME XXIX/1 (2002) CONTENTS ZE’EV HERZOG The Fortress Mound at Tel Arad: An Interim Report .................................................................................... 3 LILY SINGER-AVITZ Arad: The Iron Age Pottery Assemblages ..................................................................................................... 110 List of Abbreviations ...................................................................................................................................... 215 VOLUME XXIX/2 (2002) CONTENTS DEBORAH SWEENEY Mordechai Gilula (1936-2002) In Memoriam ..................................................................................................................................... 219 YUVAL GOREN - ISRAEL FINKELSTEIN - NADAV NA’AMAN The Seat of Three Disputed Canaanite Rulers According to Petrographic Investigation of the Amarna Tablets ................................................................................................................................................... 221 YITZHAK PAZ Fortified Settlements of the EB IB and the Emergence of the First Urban System ....................................... 238 ISRAEL FINKELSTEIN Gezer Revisited and Revised ......................................................................................................................... 262 AVRAHAM FAUST Accessibility, Defence and Town Planning in Iron Age Israel ...................................................................... 297 DAVID VANDERHOOFT - WAYNE HOROWITZ The Cuneiform Inscription from Tell en-Na¡beh: The Demise of an Unknown King .................................. 318 WOLF-DIETRICH NIEMEIER Greek Mercenaries at Tel Kabri and Other Sites in the Levant ..................................................................... 328 SIMCHA LEV-YADUN – MINA WEINSTEIN-EVRON The Role of Pinus Halepensis (Aleppo Pine) in the Landscape of Early Bronze Age Megiddo .................. 332 List of Abbreviations ...................................................................................................................................... 344 -4- VOLUME XXX/1 (2003) CONTENTS SHLOMO BUNINIOVITZ - ZVI LEDERMAN The Final Destruction of Beth Shemesh and the Pax Assyriaca in the Judean Shephelah ............................ ISRAEL FINKELSTEIN - DAVID USSISHKIN The Cache of Egyptianized Vessels from Megiddo: A Stratigraphical Update ............................................ ORNIT ILAN - YUVAL GOREN The Egyptianized Pottery Vessels of Early Bronze Age Megiddo ................................................................ DEBORAH SWEENEY A Lion-Hunt Scarab and Other Egyptian Objects from the Late Bronze Fortress at Jaffa ............................ STEFAN MÜNGER Egyptian Stamp-Seal Amulets and Their Implications for the Chronology of the Early Iron Age ............... 3 27 42 54 66 DAVID BEN-SHLOMO The Iron Age Sequence of Tel Ashdod: A Rejoinder to 'Ashdod Revisited' By I. Finkelstein and L. SingerAvitz .................................................................................................................................................. 83 ITZHAEK SHAI - AREN M. MAEIR Pre-lmlk Jars: A New Class of Iron Age HA Storage Jars ............................................................................. 108 RONNY REICH On the Assyrian Presence at Ramat Ra|el ..................................................................................................... 124 YUVAL GADOT - YOTAM TEPPER A Pottery Workshop from the Late Byzantine Period at Khirbet Baraka ...................................................... 130 List of Abbreviations ...................................................................................................................................... 163 VOLUME XXX/2 (2003) CONTENTS OKTAY BELLI - ERKAN KONYAR Ernis-Evditepe: The Largest Early Iron Age Necropolis in Eastern Anatolia ............................................... 167 RON SHIMELMITZ A Glance at the Early Trans-Caucasian Culture Through Its Nomadic Component ..................................... 204 RAM GOPHNA - IANIR MILEVSKI Feinan and the Mediterranean During the Early Bronze Age ........................................................................ 222 MICHAL ARTZY Mariners and Their Boats at the End of the Late Bronze and the Beginning of the Iron Age in the Eastern Mediterranean ................................................................................................................................... 232 -5- NICOLAS COLDSTREAM Some Aegean Reactions to the Chronological Debate in the Southern Levant ............................................. 247 WILLIAM G. DEVER Visiting the Real Gezer: A Reply to Israel Finkelstein …………………………………………………...... 259 ISRAEL FINKELSTEIN - ELI PIASETZKY Wrong and Right; High and Low—14C Dates from Tel Re|ov and Iron Age Chronology ........................... 283 List of Abbreviations ...................................................................................................................................... 296 -6- VOLUME XXXI/1 (2004) CONTENTS YUVAL GOREN – AVNER AYALON – MIRYAM BAR-MATTHEWS – BETTINA SCHILMAN Authenticity Examination of the Jehoash Inscription .................................................................................... NIR LALKIN A Ramesses IV Scarab from Lachish ............................................................................................................ ASSAF YASUR-LANDAU - YUVAL GOREN A Cypro-Minoan Potmark from Aphek ......................................................................................................... AYELET GILBOA - ILAN SHARON - JEFFREY ZORN Dor and Iron Age Chronology: Scarabs, Ceramic Sequence and 14C ............................................................ ISRAEL FINKELSTEIN - NADAV NA’AMAN The Judahite Shephelah in the Late 8th and Early 7th Centuries BCE .......................................................... LILY SINGER-AVITZ 'Busayra Painted Ware' at Tel Beersheba ....................................................................................................... TALLAY ORNAN Idols and Symbols: Divine Representation in First Millennium Mesopotamian Art and Its Bearing on the Second Commandment ..................................................................................................................... 3 l7 22 32 60 80 90 ISRAEL FINKELSTEIN – LILY SINGER-AVITZ "Ashdod Revisited"—Maintained .................................................................................................................. 122 List of Abbreviations ……………………………………………………………………………………….. 136 VOLUME XXXI/2 (2004) CONTENTS DAVID USSISHKIN Editor's Note ................................................................................................................................................... 139 GUNNAR LEHMANN Reconstructing the Social Landscape of Early Israel: Rural Marriage Alliances in the Central Hill Country ...................................................................................................................................................... 141 DORON BEN-AMI The Casemate Fort at Tel Harashim in Upper Galilee ................................................................................... 194 ZE’EV HERZOG – LILY SINGER-AVITZ Redefining the Centre: The Emergence of State in Judah ............................................................................. 209 ALEXANDER FANTALKIN The Final Destruction of Beth Shemesh and the Pax Assyriaca in the Judahite Shephelah: An Alternative View .................................................................................................................................................. 245 -7- DINA AVSHALOM-GORNI – RAFAEL FRANKEL – NIMROD GETZOV Grooved Upper Grinding Stones of Saddle Querns in Israel ......................................................................... 262 HAYAH KATZ Commercial Activity in the Kingdoms of Judah and Israel ........................................................................... 268 Index of Volumes 21-30: Prepared by GILAD CINAMON – INBAL SAMET .................................................... 278 List of Abbreviations ...................................................................................................................................... 319 -8- VOLUME XXXII/1 (2005) CONTENTS RAM GOPHNA - TSVIKA TSUK Chalcolithic Settlements in the Western Samaria Foothills ........................................................................... AVSHALOM KARASIK – UZY SMILANSKY – ITZHAQ BEIT-ARIEH New Typological Analyses of Early Bronze Age Holemouth Jars from Tel Arad and Southern Sinai ........ AMIR GORZALCZANY Shuni: A New Middle Bronze HA Domestic Site on the Northern Bank of Na|al Tanninim ...................... JOE UZIEL - AREN M. MAEIR Scratching the Surface at Gath: Implications of the Tell e¡-Ÿafi/Gath Surface Survey ................................. RAN ZADOK On Anatolians, Greeks and Egyptians in 'Chaldean' and Achaemenid Babylonia ........................................ 3 20 32 50 76 ISRAEL ROLL Imperial Roads Across and Trade Routes Beyond the Roman Provinces of Judaea-Palaestina and Arabia'. The State of Research ............................................................................................................... 107 ISRAEL FINKELSTEIN Khirbet en-Nahas, Edom and Biblical History .............................................................................................. 119 List of Abbreviations ...................................................................................................................................... 127 VOLUME XXXII/2 (2005) PAPERS THE SONIA AND MARCO NADLER INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM, APRIL 29, 2004 BETWEEN EAST AND WEST: ERETZ ISRAELAND THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST— INTERCULTURAL TIES AND INNOVATION IN THE SECOND MILLENNIUM BCE Yoram Cohen and Assaf Yasur-Landau, Guest Editors CONTENTS YORAM COHEN – ASSAF YASUR-LANDAU Foreword ........................................................................................................................................................ 131 IRIT ZIFFER From Acemhöyük to Megiddo: The Banquet Scene in the Art of the Levant in the Second Millennium BCE ................................................................................................................................................... 133 -9- ASSAF YASUR-LANDAU Old Wine in New Vessels: Intercultural Contact, Innovation and Aegean, Canaanite and Philistine Foodways …………………………………………………………………………………….................. 168 YORAM COHEN Change and Innovation in the Administration and Scribal Practices of Emar during the Hittite Dominion 192 AVRAHAM FAUST The Israelite Village: Cultural Conservatism and Technological Innovation ................................................ 204 NILI WAZANA Natives, Immigrants and the Biblical Perception of Origins in Historical Times ......................................... 220 List o f Abbreviations ..................................................................................................................................... 245 -10- VOLUME XXXIII/1 (2006) CONTENTS THOMAS E. LEVY - MOHAMMAD NAJJAR Some Thoughts on Khirbet en-Na|as, Edom, Biblical History and Anthropology—A Response to Israel Finkelstein ......................................................................................................................................... ALEXANDER FANTALKIN - ISRAEL FINKELSTEIN The Sheshonq I Campaign and the 8th-Century-BCE Earthquake—More on the Archaeology and History of the South in the Iron I-IIA ............................................................................................................ ARAD HAGGI Phoenician Atlit and Its Newly-Excavated Harbour: A Reassessment .............................................................................................................................................. NADAV NA’AMAN - YIFAT THAREANI-SUSSELY Dating the Appearance of Imitations of Assyrian Ware in Southern Palestine ............................................. YIZHAR HIRSCHFELD - YOTAM TEPPER Columbarium Towers and Other Structures in the Environs of Shivta ......................................................... 3 18 43 61 83 List of Abbreviations ...................................................................................................................................... 117 VOLUME XXXIII/2 (2006) CONTENTS DORON BEN-AMI Early Iron Age Cult Places—New Evidence from Tel Hazor ....................................................................... 121 DAVID BEN-SHLOMO New Evidence of Seals and Sealings from Philistia ...................................................................................... 134 ZE’EV HERZOG - LILY SINGER-AVITZ Sub-Dividing the Iron Age HA in Northern Israel: A Suggested Solution to the Chronological Debate ..... 163 LILY SINGER-AVITZ The Date of Kuntille cAjrud ........................................................................................................................... 196 RAPHAEL GREENBERG - GILAD CINAMON Stamped and Incised Jar Handles from Rogem Gannim and Their Implications for the Political Economy of Jerusalem, Late 8th-Early 4th Centuries BCE .............................................................................. 229 List of Abbreviations ...................................................................................................................................... 244 -11- VOLUME XXXIV/1 (2007) THE GROWING CORPUS OF YEHUD STAMP IMPRESSIONS: NEW FINDS AND NEW RESEARCH Oded Lipschits and David Vanderhooft, Guest Editors CONTENTS ODED LIPSCHITS - DAVID VANDERHOOFT Yehud Stamp Impressions: History of Discovery and Newly-Published Impressions ................................. DAVID VANDERHOOFT - ODED LIPSCHITS A New Typology of the Yehud Stamp Impressions ...................................................................................... YITZHAK MAGEN – BENNY HAR-EVEN Persian Period Stamp Impressions from Nebi Samwil .................................................................................. RONNY REICH - ELI SHUKRON The Yehud Stamp Impressions from the 1995-2005 City of David Excavations .......................................... EPHRAIM STEM - ODED LIPSCHITS - DAVID VANDERHOOFT New Yehud Stamp Impressions from En Gedi .............................................................................................. ODED LIPSCHITS - MANFRED OEMING - YUVAL GADOT - DAVID VANDERHOOFT Seventeen Newly-Excavated Yehud Stamp Impressions from Ramat Rahel ................................................ YOAV FARHI A Yehud Stamp Impression from North Jerusalem ....................................................................................... HILLEL GEVA A Chronological Reevaluation of Yehud Stamp Impressions in Palaeo-Hebrew Script, Based on Finds from Excavations in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem ............................................. 3 12 38 59 66 74 90 92 GERALD FINKIEISZTEJN - SHIMON GIBSON The Retrograde-F-Shaped yh(d) Monogram: Epigraphy and Dating ............................................................ 104 ODED LIPSCHITS - DAVID VANDERHOOFT Summary Data of Yehud Stamp Impressions, Arranged by Type ................................................................. 114 List of Abbreviations ...................................................................................................................................... 121 VOLUME XXXIV/2 (2007) CONTENTS ERIC H. CLINE – ASSAF YASUR-LANDAU Musings from a Distant Shore: The Nature and Destination of the Uluburun Ship and Its Cargo ................ 125 ISRAEL FINKELSTEIN – ZE’EV HERZOG – LILY SINGER-AVITZ – DAVID USSISHKIN Has King David's Palace in Jerusalem Been Found? ..................................................................................... 142 -12- NADAV NA’AMAN Sargon II's Second palû according to the Khorsabad Annals ........................................................................ 165 AHARON SASSON Corpus of 694 Astragali from Stratum II at Tel Beersheba ........................................................................... 171 LILY SINGER-AVITZ On Pottery in Assyrian Style: A Rejoinder .................................................................................................... 182 MOSHE FISCHER - ITAMAR TAXEL Ancient Yavneh—Its History and Archaeology ............................................................................................ 204 List of Abbreviations ...................................................................................................................................... 285 -13- VOLUME XXXV/1 (2008) CONTENTS In Memoriam: Moshe Kochavi ....................................................................................................................... ERAN ARIE Reconsidering the Iron Age II Strata at Tel Dan: Archaeological and Historical implications ................... STEPHAN JAKOB WIMMER A New Hieratic Ostracon from Ashkelon ....................................................................................................... LILY SINGER-AVITZ The Earliest Settlement at Kadesh Barnea .................................................................................................... ISRAEL FINKELSTEIN - ELI PIASETZKY Radiocarbon and the History of Copper Production at Khirbet en-Na|as ................................................... DANNY ROSENBERG Spatial Distribution of Food Processing Activities at Late Iron I Megiddo .................................................. 3 6 65 73 82 96 RONNY REICH - ELI SHUKRON The Date of City-Wall 501 in Jerusalem ........................................................................................................ 114 MOSHE FISCHER - ISRAEL ROLL - OREN TAL Persian and Hellenistic Remains at Tel Yacoz ............................................................................................... 123 List of Abbreviations ...................................................................................................................................... 164 -14-