Ashkelon

by Master, Daniel M.; Schloen, J. David; Stager, Lawrence E.

• ISBN13: 9781575069296
• ISBN10: 1575069296
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2017-11-01
• Publisher: Eisenbrauns

Table of Contents

Introduction: Ashkelon and Its Inhabitants	p. 3
Physical Environment	p. 11
Regional Settlement History	p. 17
Offshore Underwater Surveys
Underwater Survey, 1985-1987	p. 67
Underwater Survey, 1996-1997	p. 97
Site Formation	p. 101
Water Wells
The Wells of Ashkelon	p. 105
Survey of Wells	p. 107
Dating Ancient Water Using Readiocarbon and Ceramics	p. 127
Archaeobotanical Evidence of Birdliming at Ashkelon	p. 131
Early Explorations	p. 143
British and Israeli Excavations	p. 153
The Leon Levy Expedition	p. 165
Grid System and Field Methods	p. 185
Soil Flotation and Quantitative Analysis	p. 195
Zooarchaeological Procedures	p. 207
The North Slope	p. 215
The South Tell	p. 247
A Cuneiform Lexical Text with a Canaanite Column	p. 327
Inscriptions in Phoenician and Other Scripts	p. 333
Coins of the Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C.	p. 373
A Late Hellenistic Coin Hoard	p. 385
The Greek Inscription in the Grid 38 Bathhouse	p. 397
The Church by the Jerusalem Gate	p. 399
An Arabic Inscription Engraved with Crusader Shields	p. 405
Amphoras Through the Ages	p. 429
The Pottery in the Grid 38 Bathhouse	p. 463
The Export of Holy Wine from Byzantine Ashkelon	p. 471
Aspects of Islamic-Period Pottery	p. 489
Late Bronze Age Intramural Tombs	p. 515
Human Remains from the Babylonian Destruction of 604 B.C.	p. 533
DNA Analysis of Infant Human Remains in the Grid 38 Bathhouse	p. 537
Dog Burials of the Persian Period	p. 541
The Askelon Dog Burials: Data and Interpretations	p. 541
Dogs and Healing in phoenician Ashkelon	p. 565
A Cappadocian Cylinder Seal	p. 571
The Canaanite Silver Calf	p. 577
An Egypto-Phoenician Stone Statue from the Sea	p. 581
The Manufacture of Bone Artifacts	p. 587
Gold Jewelry of the Fatimid Period	p. 639
Bibliography	p. 647
Index	p. 685
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