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 ................................................................................. 3

NILI LIPHSCHITZ - GEORGES BONANI

Dimensions of Olive (Olea Europaea) Stones as a Reliable Parameter to Distinguish between Wild and
Cultivated Varieties: Further Evidence ............................................................................................. 23

RAM GOPHNA - EYAL BUZAGLO

A Note on an Egyptian Pottery Basin from cEn Besor .................................................................................. 26

ALEXANDER FANTALKIN
A Salvage Excavation at an Early Bronze Age Settlement on Ha-Shophtim Street, Qiryat cAta ................. 28
Appendix: MOSHE SADEH
Animal Bones from Qiryat cAta, Area L .......................................................................................... 57

HERMANN MICHAEL NIEMANN

Megiddo and Solomon: A Biblical Investigation in Relation to Archaeology .............................................. 61

ERNST AXEL KNAUF

Jerusalem in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages: A Proposal .................................................................... 75

IANIR MILEVSKI
The Mana|at and Gezer Cylinder Seals and Further Levantine Glyptics ...................................................... 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 Ha-
did …………………………………………………………………………………………………. 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

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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

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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

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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 Ta-
blets ................................................................................................................................................... 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

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CONTENTS

SHLOMO BUNINIOVITZ - ZVI LEDERMAN

The Final Destruction of Beth Shemesh and the Pax Assyriaca in the Judean Shephelah ............................ 3

ISRAEL FINKELSTEIN - DAVID USSISHKIN

The Cache of Egyptianized Vessels from Megiddo: A Stratigraphical Update ............................................ 27

ORNIT ILAN - YUVAL GOREN

The Egyptianized Pottery Vessels of Early Bronze Age Megiddo ................................................................ 42

DEBORAH SWEENEY
A Lion-Hunt Scarab and Other Egyptian Objects from the Late Bronze Fortress at Jaffa ............................ 54

STEFAN MÜNGER
Egyptian Stamp-Seal Amulets and Their Implications for the Chronology of the Early Iron Age ............... 66

DAVID BEN-SHLOMO
The Iron Age Sequence of Tel Ashdod: A Rejoinder to 'Ashdod Revisited' By I. Finkelstein and L. Singer-
Avitz .................................................................................................................................................. 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

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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

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 VOLUME XXXI/1 (2004)

CONTENTS

YUVAL GOREN – AVNER AYALON – MIRYAM BAR-MATTHEWS – BETTINA SCHILMAN

Authenticity Examination of the Jehoash Inscription .................................................................................... 3

NIR LALKIN
A Ramesses IV Scarab from Lachish ............................................................................................................ l7

ASSAF YASUR-LANDAU - YUVAL GOREN

A Cypro-Minoan Potmark from Aphek ......................................................................................................... 22

AYELET GILBOA - ILAN SHARON - JEFFREY ZORN

Dor and Iron Age Chronology: Scarabs, Ceramic Sequence and 14C ............................................................ 32

ISRAEL FINKELSTEIN - NADAV NA’AMAN

The Judahite Shephelah in the Late 8th and Early 7th Centuries BCE .......................................................... 60

LILY SINGER-AVITZ
'Busayra Painted Ware' at Tel Beersheba ....................................................................................................... 80

TALLAY ORNAN
Idols and Symbols: Divine Representation in First Millennium Mesopotamian Art and Its Bearing on the
Second Commandment ..................................................................................................................... 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 Coun-
try ...................................................................................................................................................... 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
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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

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CONTENTS

RAM GOPHNA - TSVIKA TSUK

Chalcolithic Settlements in the Western Samaria Foothills ........................................................................... 3

AVSHALOM KARASIK – UZY SMILANSKY – ITZHAQ BEIT-ARIEH

New Typological Analyses of Early Bronze Age Holemouth Jars from Tel Arad and Southern Sinai ........ 20

AMIR GORZALCZANY
Shuni: A New Middle Bronze HA Domestic Site on the Northern Bank of Na|al Tanninim ...................... 32

JOE UZIEL - AREN M. MAEIR

Scratching the Surface at Gath: Implications of the Tell e¡-Ÿafi/Gath Surface Survey ................................. 50

RAN ZADOK
On Anatolians, Greeks and Egyptians in 'Chaldean' and Achaemenid Babylonia ........................................ 76

ISRAEL ROLL
Imperial Roads Across and Trade Routes Beyond the Roman Provinces of Judaea-Palaestina and Ara-
bia'. 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

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ASSAF YASUR-LANDAU
Old Wine in New Vessels: Intercultural Contact, Innovation and Aegean, Canaanite and Philistine Food-
ways …………………………………………………………………………………….................. 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

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 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 ......................................................................................................................................... 3

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 ............................................................................................................ 18

ARAD HAGGI
Phoenician Atlit and Its Newly-Excavated Harbour:
A Reassessment .............................................................................................................................................. 43

NADAV NA’AMAN - YIFAT THAREANI-SUSSELY

Dating the Appearance of Imitations of Assyrian Ware in Southern Palestine ............................................. 61

YIZHAR HIRSCHFELD - YOTAM TEPPER

Columbarium Towers and Other Structures in the Environs of Shivta ......................................................... 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

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 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 ................................. 3

DAVID VANDERHOOFT - ODED LIPSCHITS

A New Typology of the Yehud Stamp Impressions ...................................................................................... 12

YITZHAK MAGEN – BENNY HAR-EVEN

Persian Period Stamp Impressions from Nebi Samwil .................................................................................. 38

RONNY REICH - ELI SHUKRON

The Yehud Stamp Impressions from the 1995-2005 City of David Excavations .......................................... 59

EPHRAIM STEM - ODED LIPSCHITS - DAVID VANDERHOOFT

New Yehud Stamp Impressions from En Gedi .............................................................................................. 66

ODED LIPSCHITS - MANFRED OEMING - YUVAL GADOT - DAVID VANDERHOOFT

Seventeen Newly-Excavated Yehud Stamp Impressions from Ramat Rahel ................................................ 74

YOAV FARHI
A Yehud Stamp Impression from North Jerusalem ....................................................................................... 90

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 ............................................. 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

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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

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CONTENTS

In Memoriam: Moshe Kochavi ....................................................................................................................... 3

ERAN ARIE
Reconsidering the Iron Age II Strata at Tel Dan: Archaeological and Historical implications ................... 6

STEPHAN JAKOB WIMMER

A New Hieratic Ostracon from Ashkelon ....................................................................................................... 65

LILY SINGER-AVITZ
The Earliest Settlement at Kadesh Barnea .................................................................................................... 73

ISRAEL FINKELSTEIN - ELI PIASETZKY

Radiocarbon and the History of Copper Production at Khirbet en-Na|as ................................................... 82

DANNY ROSENBERG
Spatial Distribution of Food Processing Activities at Late Iron I Megiddo .................................................. 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

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