Ramat-Raḥel III : Final Publication of Yohanan Aharoni's Excavations (1954, 1959-1962)... [TWO VOLUMES] Emery and Claire Yass Publications in Archaeology, Tel Aviv University
Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2016. First edition. Octavo (10-3/4" x 8-3/4"). 2 volumes. (10), 283, (1); (8), (284)-736pp. Dark blue boards illustrated with color photos, spines lettered in yellow and white. Text illustrated throughout with drawings, black & white photos, ground plans and maps. An otherwise fine as new set, but one that is ex-library (with, however, minimal markings; i.e. rubber stamps on title pages and at bottoms of text blocks).
"This book brings to complete and final publication two past excavations conducted at the site of Ramat Rahel. A major part of the report is devoted to publishing the results of Yohanan Aharoni's long-term excavation project at the site during the years 1954, 1956, 1959-1962. The renewal of excavations at the site in 2004 triggered the need to reevaluate the site's architecture and stratigraphy, and from that the idea to publish this report was born." (OCLC)
Contents: Volume 1. Part 1. Introduction. Foreword / Oded Lipschits -- Aharoni at Ramat Raḥel / Boaz Gross -- Raw material and sources for the analysis of Aharoni's excavations / Oded Lipschits, Yuval Gadot and Liora Freud -- Publication methodology / Yuval Gadot and Oded Lipschits. Part 2. Stratigraphy, architecture and pottery. Sub-sector AES1 : the church and the annexed building / Yuval Gadot and Itamar Taxel -- Sub-sector AES2 : squares O-V/24-27 / Yuval Gadot and Oren Tal -- Sub-sector AES3 : squares K-P/18-23 / Yuval Gadot, Oren Tal and Itamar Taxel -- Sub-sector ACS1 : courtyard 380 (squares Q-W/15-20) / Yuval Gadot, Liora Freud, Oren Tal and Itamar Taxel -- Sub-sector ACS2 : squares W-AA/15-22 / Yuval Gadot, Liora Freud, Oren Tal and Itamar Taxel -- Sub-sector ACS3 : squares Q-V/20-23 / Yuval Gadot, Oren Tal and Itamar Taxel -- Sub-sector ACS4 : Squares M-R/9-16 and squares F/13-14 / Yuval Gadot and Oded Lipschits -- Sub-sector AWS1 : squares S-BB/6-14 / Yuval Gadot, Liora Freud, Oren Tal and Itamar Taxel -- Sub-sector AWS2 / Yuval Gadot and Oded Lipschits -- Sector APS / Yuval Gadot and Oded Lipschits -- Jewish ritual baths (Miqvaʼot) / Ronny Reich -- Pottery of the iron age : typology and summary / Liora Freud -- Pottery from the Persian and Hellenistic periods / Oren Tal -- The pottery of the late Roman, Byzantine and Islamic periods : summary and supplementary pottery types / Itamar Taxel -- Appendix : Pentagonal clay tiles / Itamar Taxel.
Volume 2. Part 3. Stamp impressions. lmlk stamp impressions / Omer Sergi -- "Private" stamp impressions / Ido Koch and Oded Lipschits -- Concentric circle incisions / Omer Sergi and Ido Koch -- Prancing horse impression / Ido Koch -- Rosette stamp impressions / Ido Koch -- Lion stamp impressions / Oded Lipschits and Ido Koch -- Forty unpublished yhwd stamp impressions / Oded Lipschits and David Vanderhooft -- Persian period stamp impressions / Keren Ras, Efrat Bocher and Ido Koch -- yršlm stamp impressions / Efrat Bocher -- "ṭet"-like stamp impressions / Efrat Bocher -- Roman army stamp impressions and related objects / Yotam Tepper, Efrat Bocher and Ido Koch -- A unique Byzantine eagle stamp impression / Efrat Bocher and Keren Ras. Part 4. Other finds. Hebrew epigraphic incisions / Ido Koch and Oded Lipschits -- Potter's marks / Efrat Bocher, Keren Ras and Liora Freud -- A clay seal depicting a schematic version of the "woman at the window" motif / Keren Ras -- Iron II clay figurines / Raz Kletter and Katri Saarelainen -- Iron II architectural elements / Oded Lipschits and Keren Ras -- Marked and inscribed pottery vessels of the late Byzantine and early Islamic periods / Itamar Taxel and Nitzan Amitai-Preiss -- Appendix 36.1 : Arabic inscribed jar / Itamar Taxel and Nitzan Amitai-Preiss -- Glass finds / Ruth E. Jackson-Tal -- The coins / Yoav Farhi -- Appendix 38.1 : The coins from the Roman bathhouse / Yoav Farhi -- Stone vessels and implements of the late Second Temple period / Ronny Reich -- A sundial sherd / Keren Ras -- Roman and Byzantine architectural elements / Efrat Bocher and Ido Koch -- Agricultural installations / Uri Davidovich -- Miscellaneous finds / Keren Ras and Yuval Gadot. Part 5. Post Aharoni excavations at Ramat Raḥel. Salvage excavations 2000-2002 / Gideon Solimany and Vered Barzel. Appendix 44.1 : Coins / Donald T. Ariel -- Appendix 44.2 : Three stamp impressions / Gabriel Barkay -- Appendix 44.3 : Figurines / Raz Kletter -- Appendix 44.4 : Glass vessels / Natalya Katsnelson. Part 6. Conclusions and index. Summary and conclusions / Yuval Gadot and Oded Lipschits.
This set is Monograph Number 35 of the Tel Aviv University, Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology series. Item #52925
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