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Graphic Design | Abdul Bashiru Yussif, Abdul Bashiru Yussif

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Graphic Design | Tara Holbrooks, Tara Holbrooks

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Graphic Design | Laney O'Neal, Laney O'Neal

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Graphic Design | Brittani Myers, Brittani Myers

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Graphic Design | Khaled Mahmud, Khaled Mahmud

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Graphic Design | Brandon Smith, Brandon Smith

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Buildings Of The Persian, Hellenistic And Early Roman Periods At Khirbat Kabar, In The Northern Hebron Hills (Hebrew, Pp. 49–71; English Summary, Pp. 205–207), Yuval Baruch

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Two buildings were exposed. The northern building comprised rooms surrounding a central courtyard; the pottery finds from this building date from the Persian period, and chiefly, to the Hellenistic and Early Roman periods (first century BCE). Only two rooms survived of the southern building, which apparently opened to a courtyard. Many storage-jar sherds were found, seemingly in situ. On two of them, Aramaic letters were incised before firing. An Achaemenid-style conical glass seal was unearthed, depicting a hero or a ruler holding flanking lions. This building may have had an administrative or storage function. Three tombs were uncovered in proximity …

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Drinking Vessels (Rytha) From Tel Ya‘Oz (Hebrew, Pp. 25–37; English Summary, Pp. 203–204), Irit Ziffer, Raz Kletter, Orit Segal

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Three drinking vessels (rytha) were found in the Persian-period building at Tel Ya‘oz: an almost complete human-headed rython and two animal heads, of a ram and a lion. The anthropomorphic rython is undoubtedly the most extraordinary of the three. It is a local adaptation of an Achaemenid vessel that was used at royal banquets. Its Egyptian appearance might suggest that is was created by an Egyptian working on the Levantine coast, or by a Levantine trained in Egyptian iconography.

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A Seventh-Century Ce Mosaic Floor At Pi Maẓuva (Hebrew, Pp. 57–66; English Summary, Pp. 185–187), Rina Talgam

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The mosaic floor uncovered at Pi Maẓuva comprises a broad border of acanthus medallions, surrounding a carpet of flower buds, with a woman’s bust depicted in its center, possibly a personification of abundance and agricultural fertility. The acanthus border is populated by floral and animal motifs, which seem to have been executed by experienced artists. Based on iconographic and stylistic considerations, the mosaic was dated to the seventh century CE, probably created after the Muslim conquest, attesting to a continuation of local Byzantine traditions throughout the seventh–eighth centuries CE. The mosaic might have adorned a room that was used for …

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Dwellings From The Byzantine Period At Pi Maẓuva In The Western Galilee (With A Contribution By Danny Syon) (Hebrew, Pp. 31–39; English Summary, Pp. 182–183), Gilad Cinamon, Yoav Lerer

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The excavation at Pi Maẓuva revealed building complexes, some separated by an alley, dating from the Byzantine period. The finds at the site included a bronze cross, an ashlar limestone lintel with a cross engraving, and pottery dated to the sixth–seventh centuries CE, which comprised local types, alongside many imported ones, some adorned with crosses. An interesting find is a high-quality, colorful, seventh-century CE mosaic floor adorned with floral motifs, animal and human figures, and two fragmentary Greek inscriptions. The finds at the site point to the existence of a rural Christian settlement, probably destroyed during the Persian conquest of …

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A Milestone Station In The Bet Neṭofa Valley, North Of Ẓippori, And Its Place In The Roman Imperial Road System In The Galilee (Hebrew, Pp. 1–24; English Summary, Pp. 163–165), Yotam Tepper

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A salvage excavation in the western Bet Neṭofa Valley exposed a square foundation, three large stone bases and three milestones. The three milestones are inscribed in Latin and seem to have been erected along a road that ran from north to south in two main phases: during the days of Hadrian (120 CE and 130 CE), and later, during the reign of Constantine (333–337 CE). The stone-built foundation dates to the fourth century CE. One of its stones bore a worn relief of an animal, probably a lion in profile. Its location beside the road suggests that it was a …

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Mosaic Floors, Liturgical Furniture And Architectural Sculpture From The Church At Ḥorbat Ḥadat (Hebrew, Pp. 119–134; English Summary, Pp. 145–146), Lihi Habas

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Excavations within the Ḥorbat Ḥadat church revealed several mosaic floors, a marble chancel screen post and a limestone column capital. The mosaic floors were laid in the early phase of the church and continued in use during its later phase. All the carpets and panels exhibit geometric and floral patterns made in a variety of colored tesserae. The low chancel screen post has a groove for fitting a chancel screen panel and two holes with metal remains, probably for fitting an offerings table. The capital bears an engraved cross within a circle.

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A Greek Inscription From The Church At Ḥorbat Ḥadat (Pp. 121–126), Leah Di Segni

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A three-line Greek inscription was uncovered in the church at Ḥorbat Ḥadat, set within the mosaic pavement of the nave, at the foot of the bema. The inscription includes a unique quotation from Psalms and an invocation to Christ. The inscription is dated to the fifth century CE, most likely in its second half, based on the shape of the letters.

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A Byzantine-Period Church At Ḥorbat Ḥadat (Hebrew, Pp. 93–118; English Summary, Pp. 141–143), Uzi ‘Ad, Orit Segal, Oren Shmueli, Rudolph Cohen

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Excavations at Ḥorbat Ḥadat revealed a church paved with colorful mosaic floors. Two phases of construction were discerned: an early phase, comprising a basilica-type church and a complex of adjacent rooms; and a later phase, when the plan of the church was altered and reduced in size. The construction of the church is dated according to a Greek inscription in a mosaic floor to the second half of the fifth century CE. It is plausible that the church belonged to a large agricultural monastery that was in use from the mid-fifth or early sixth century through the seventh or mid-eighth …

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Roman-Period Wall Paintings From The Western Quarter At Gamla (Pp. 83–120), Yoav Farhi, Lena Naama Sharabi

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The colored wall-painting fragments presented in this article were retrieved from the Western Quarter at Gamla. The fragments are of excellent quality, most of them colored red, yellow-ochre and green, often bordered by black or red bands. Several patterns were noticed among the fragments: molding and marble imitations, geometric patterns, meanders, vegetation, thin pilasters and decorative borders. These fresco and secco fragments complement the previously published stucco fragments from Gamla and serve an important role in the reconstruction of the decorative schemes of the houses.

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“Jerusalem Ivories”: Iron Age Decorated Ivory Panels From Building 100, Giv‘Ati Parking Lot Excavations, And Their Cultural Setting (Pp. 57–74), Reli Avisar, Yiftah Shalev, Harel Shochat, Yuval Gadot, Ido Koch

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This preliminary report presents an assemblage of ivory items found in the precincts of the City of David National Park in Jerusalem. Such prestigious ivory items have only been found in prominent cities, such as Late Bronze Age Megiddo and Iron Age Samaria, where they originated in buildings recognized as part of palatial complexes. These items are the first of their kind to be found in Jerusalem, revealing the wealth of Jerusalem’s elite on the eve of the city’s destruction in 586 BCE. The findings shed light on the cultural and economic role of the city’s elite in the “global” …

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Torso Of A ‘Weary Heracles’ Marble Statuette From Ḥorbat Ṭarbenet (Pp. 167–177), Gabriel Mazor, Walid Atrash

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A statuette of a free-standing naked male figure of Heracles was discovered in a fill partially covering a village bath at Ḥorbat Ṭarbenet. The appearance of Heracles in Roman baths is witnessed elsewhere in the region, forming part of the bath décor and usually set in niches in the frigidarium walls, the palestra, or the natatio. A statuette of Heracles in a bathhouse, although not an exceptional Hellenic cultural expression, is a rather unique find in a remote (Jewish?) village.

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A Zoomorphic Clay Figurine From ‘En Ḥakhlil, Migdal ‘Ha-Emeq (Pp. 113–116), Nadeshda B. Knudsen

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A nearly complete clay zoomorphic figurine was uncovered in the Early Bronze Age I–II burial cave at ‘En Ḥakhlil. The animal species represented is not clear, as the shape of the ears/horns is vague, and the tail is missing; it may represent a donkey or a bull. The figurine seems to have been deposited as a burial offering for the deceased.

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A Middle Bronze Age Scarab From Tamra (Ez-Zu‘Abiyya) (Pp. 159–162), Daphna Ben-Tor

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The scarab was found in the earth that was dug out of an Iron Age building, with which it was most likely associated. The scarab’s features and base design argue, however, for a date in the Middle Bronze Age, and thus, it is probably a heirloom.

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A Church From The Byzantine, Umayyad And Abbasid Periods Andremains From Iron Age I At Tamra (Ez-ZuʻAb Iyya ) In Ramat Issakhar (Hebrew, Pp. 55–106; English Summary, Pp. 168–171), Yotam Tepper

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Excavations at the village of Tamra ez-Zuʻabiyya exposed well-preserved basalt architectural remains of a rural settlement, dating from the Byzantine to the Early Islamic periods. Remains were also uncovered from the Iron Age and the Persian and Roman periods, as well as from the Fatimid, Mamluk and Ottoman periods. In the Byzantine period, a church was erected at the site, decorated with a colorful mosaic pavement, depicting doves and peacocks. During the Umayyad period, the church included a nave, a bema and a northern aisle. The nave was adorned with a colorful mosaic pavement, containing a four-line dedicatory inscription in …

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A Byzantine-Period Funerary Chapel In The Newe Yam Dalet Neighborhood In Ashqelon (Pp. 147–158), Yulia Ustinova, Gregory Seriy

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Excavations in Ashqelon’s Newe Yam Dalet neighborhood revealed a remarkable funerary chapel.The funerary complex comprises a courtyard, a tomb and a roofed chamber. The chamber floor was paved with mosaics, containing three Greek inscription; a fourth inscription was found on a marble slab in secondary use.The epigraphic evidence endorses the interpretation of the site as a cultic complex, perhaps aprivate memorial site of an individual venerated by the community.

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Mosaic Floors, Liturgical Vessels And Furniture, Andarchitectural Sculpture From The Byzantine Monasteryin Naḥal Qidron, Jerusalem (Pp. 83–100), Lihi Habas

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Salvage excavations in Naḥal Qidron, southof Jerusalem, revealed a monastery adornedwith mosaic floors. A composition of geometricinterlaces populated with animals decorated thefloor of the church hall, while geometric andvegetal carpets decorated the vestibule.Stylistic and technical analyses of the mosaicsindicatea datein the mid-sixth century CE.Liturgical furniture madeof imported marble, alongside local stoneimitations, as well as architectural sculpture,were also found at the site. Fragments of two liturgical vessels, a marblepanel, a fragment of a leg of an altar table and a limestonebracket were found.

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A Byzantine Monastery In Naḥal Qidron, Jerusalem (Pp. 49–82), Yehiel Zelinger, Hervé Barbé

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A salvageexcavation was conducted on the lowerwestern slope of a high hill east of NaḥalQidron, Jerusalem. The remains wereidentified as a Byzantine monastery.Most of the site washighly disturbed by construction activities andwas excavated as one large unit,including two courtyards, northern and southern, the rooms surrounding them on the north andsouth, and anundergroundburial complex in the east.The finds––pottery, roof tiles, glassand mosaic floors––date to the Byzantine–EarlyIslamic periods, up to the eighth century CE.Fragments of a few ossuaries date to the EarlyRoman period, but they lack a clear stratigraphiccontext. The monastic complex belongs to theone-story coenobium type that flourished inthe Judean Desert …

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Fragments Of A Roman-Period Wall Painting At ‘En Ya‘Al (Naḥal Refa’Im), Jerusalem (Pp. 77–79), Silvia Rozenberg

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Seventy-five painted plaster fragments were found in the Roman villa excavated on the northern bank of Naḥal Refa’im. The fragments are painted in basic colors: white, red, green and black. The poor technique and the dullness of the colors indicate that the murals should be dated between the late second and the early third centuries CE.

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A Villa And A Pottery Kiln From The Late Roman–Byzantine Periods At ‘En Ya‘Al (Naḥal Refa’Im), Jerusalem (With A Contribution By Anat Cohen-Weinberger) (Hebrew, Pp. 71–119; English Summary, Pp. 107–110), Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah

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The excavation on the northern bank of Naḥal Refa’im in Jerusalem unearthed the remains of three occupation phases: architectural remains from the late Hellenistic or Early Roman period (Stratum III); part of a Roman villa (Stratum II); and a pottery kiln from the Late Roman–Early Byzantine periods (Stratum I). Sections of two rooms belonging to the Roman villa were exposed; the southern room was decorated with colored wall paintings, and its floor was adorned with mosaics. The villa may have been part of an estate granted to a Roman army veteran or officer. Above the ruins of the villa, a …

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A Mosaic Floor With Xenia At ‘En YaʻAl (Naḥal Refa’Im), Jerusalem (Hebrew, Pp. 121–126; English Summary, Pp. 111–112), Rina Talgam

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Two rooms of a Late Roma-period villa were exposed on the northern bank of Naḥal Refa’im, Jerusalem. The southern room was paved with a white mosaic floor adorned with two colored panels: one, enclosed in a wide frame, contains xenia that usually adorn the floors of dining or reception rooms, and the other, is adorned with an intersecting rosette pattern. The composition, the colors and the quality of the mosaics indicate a third-century CE date.

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Finds From The Hellenistic ‘Favissa’ At ‘Akko-Ptolemais (Pp. 11–20), Donald T. Ariel, Natalie Messika

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A salvage excavation conducted south of the central bus station in ‘Akko uncovered a Hellenistic-period pit. The fill in the pit contained a large quantity of potsherds, including 21 stamped amphora handles and 3 terracotta figurines. The stamped handles belong to the Rhodian class, dating from the end of the third quarter of the third century until the third quarter of the second century BCE. The terracotta figurines are made of well-levigated clay, bearing white slip and traces of black and brown paint. They represent a bird/dove, a female human and a horse-and-rider. The figurines belong to the Western Greek …

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Two Decorated Potsherds From The Islamic Period From Danny Mass Street, Ramla (Hebrew, Pp. 127–128; English, P. 120), Nitzan Amitai-Preiss

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Two decorated potsherds were unearthed: a stamped jar handle depicting a “cross” and part of a flask. The flask bears an Arabic inscription, which was dated, based on comparisons, to the thirteenth–fourteenth centuries CE.

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Excavations Near The Triple Gate Of The Temple Mount, Jerusalem (Pp. 37–95), Yuval Baruch, Ronny Reich

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In the vicinity of the ‘western Hulda Gate’ in the southern wall of the Temple Mount, four areas were excavated. Area A revealed a large miqweh (ritual bath). Area B contained three rock-cut, vaulted rooms supporting the monumental staircase to the Triple Gate. In Area C, south of the vaulted rooms, fills were excavated and a rock-cut surface was exposed. In Area D, the rock-cut ‘Secco Room’ was cleaned. Several architectural fragments, including column drums, a column base, entablature fragments, staircase elements and a fragment of a threshold, were uncovered, many of which originated in Herod’s Royal Stoa. Some of …

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Buildings Of The Persian, Hellenistic And Early Roman Periods At Khirbat Kabar, In The Northern Hebron Hills (Hebrew, Pp. 49*–71*; English Summary, Pp. 205–207), Yuval Baruch

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Drinking Vessels (Rytha) From Tel Ya‘Oz (Hebrew, Pp. 25*–37*; English Summary, Pp. 203–204), Irit Ziffer, Raz Kletter, Orit Segal

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A Seventh-Century Ce Mosaic Floor At Pi Maẓuva (Hebrew, Pp. 57*–66*; English Summary, Pp. 185–187), Rina Talgam

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Dwellings From The Byzantine Period At Pi Maẓuva In The Western Galilee (With A Contribution By Danny Syon) (Hebrew, Pp. 31*–39*; English Summary, Pp. 182–183), Gilad Cinamon, Yoav Lerer

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A Milestone Station In The Bet Neṭofa Valley, North Of Ẓippori, And Its Place In The Roman Imperial Road System In The Galilee (Hebrew, Pp. 1*–24*; English Summary, Pp. 163–165), Yotam Tepper

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Mosaic Floors, Liturgical Furniture And Architectural Sculpture From The Church At Ḥorbat Ḥadat (Hebrew, Pp. 119*–134*; English Summary, Pp. 145–146), Lihi Habas

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A Greek Inscription From The Church At Ḥorbat Ḥadat (Pp. 121–126), Leah Di Segni

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A Byzantine-Period Church At Ḥorbat Ḥadat (Hebrew, Pp. 93*–118*; English Summary, Pp. 141–143), Uzi ‘Ad, Orit Segal, Oren Shmueli, Rudolph Cohen

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Roman-Period Wall Paintings From The Western Quarter At Gamla (Pp. 83–120), Yoav Farhi, Lena Naama Sharabi

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“Jerusalem Ivories”: Iron Age Decorated Ivory Panels From Building 100, Giv‘Ati Parking Lot Excavations, And Their Cultural Setting (Pp. 57–74), Reli Avisar, Yiftah Shalev, Harel Shochat, Yuval Gadot, Ido Koch

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Torso Of A ‘Weary Heracles’ Marble Statuette From Ḥorbat Ṭarbenet (Pp. 167–177), Gabriel Mazor, Walid Atrash

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A Zoomorphic Clay Figurine From ‘En Ḥakhlil, Migdal ‘Ha-Emeq (Pp. 113–116), Nadeshda B. Knudsen

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A Middle Bronze Age Scarab From Tamra (Ez-Zu‘Abiyya) (Pp. 159–162), Daphna Ben-Tor

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A Church From The Byzantine, Umayyad And Abbasid Periods Andremains From Iron Age I At Tamra (Ez-ZuʻAb Iyya ) In Ramat Issakhar (Hebrew, Pp. 55*–106*; English Summary, Pp. 168–171), Yotam Tepper

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A Byzantine-Period Funerary Chapel In The Newe Yam Dalet Neighborhood In Ashqelon (Pp. 147–158), Yulia Ustinova, Gregory Seriy

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Mosaic Floors, Liturgical Vessels And Furniture, Andarchitectural Sculpture From The Byzantine Monasteryin Naḥal Qidron, Jerusalem (Pp. 83–100), Lihi Habas

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A Byzantine Monastery In Naḥal Qidron, Jerusalem (Pp. 49–82), Yehiel Zelinger, Hervé Barbé

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Fragments Of A Roman-Period Wall Painting At ‘En Ya‘Al (Naḥal Refa’Im), Jerusalem (Pp. 77–79), Silvia Rozenberg

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A Villa And A Pottery Kiln From The Late Roman–Byzantine Periods At ‘En Ya‘Al (Naḥal Refa’Im), Jerusalem (With A Contribution By Anat Cohen-Weinberger) (Hebrew, Pp. 71*–119*; English Summary, Pp. 107–110), Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah

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A Mosaic Floor With Xenia At ‘En YaʻAl (Naḥal Refa’Im), Jerusalem (Hebrew, Pp. 121*–126*; English Summary, Pp. 111–112), Rina Talgam

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Finds From The Hellenistic ‘Favissa’ At ‘Akko-Ptolemais (Pp. 11–20), Donald T. Ariel, Natalie Messika

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Two Decorated Potsherds From The Islamic Period From Danny Mass Street, Ramla (Hebrew, Pp. 127*–128*; English, P. 120), Nitzan Amitai-Preiss

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Excavations Near The Triple Gate Of The Temple Mount, Jerusalem (Pp. 37–95), Yuval Baruch, Ronny Reich

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Buildings Of The Persian, Hellenistic And Early Roman Periods At Khirbat Kabar, In The Northern Hebron Hills (Hebrew, Pp. 49–71; English Summary, Pp. 205–207), Yuval Baruch

Drinking Vessels (Rytha) From Tel Ya‘Oz (Hebrew, Pp. 25–37; English Summary, Pp. 203–204), Irit Ziffer, Raz Kletter, Orit Segal

A Seventh-Century Ce Mosaic Floor At Pi Maẓuva (Hebrew, Pp. 57–66; English Summary, Pp. 185–187), Rina Talgam

Dwellings From The Byzantine Period At Pi Maẓuva In The Western Galilee (With A Contribution By Danny Syon) (Hebrew, Pp. 31–39; English Summary, Pp. 182–183), Gilad Cinamon, Yoav Lerer

A Milestone Station In The Bet Neṭofa Valley, North Of Ẓippori, And Its Place In The Roman Imperial Road System In The Galilee (Hebrew, Pp. 1–24; English Summary, Pp. 163–165), Yotam Tepper

Mosaic Floors, Liturgical Furniture And Architectural Sculpture From The Church At Ḥorbat Ḥadat (Hebrew, Pp. 119–134; English Summary, Pp. 145–146), Lihi Habas

A Byzantine-Period Church At Ḥorbat Ḥadat (Hebrew, Pp. 93–118; English Summary, Pp. 141–143), Uzi ‘Ad, Orit Segal, Oren Shmueli, Rudolph Cohen

A Church From The Byzantine, Umayyad And Abbasid Periods Andremains From Iron Age I At Tamra (Ez-ZuʻAb Iyya ) In Ramat Issakhar (Hebrew, Pp. 55–106; English Summary, Pp. 168–171), Yotam Tepper

A Villa And A Pottery Kiln From The Late Roman–Byzantine Periods At ‘En Ya‘Al (Naḥal Refa’Im), Jerusalem (With A Contribution By Anat Cohen-Weinberger) (Hebrew, Pp. 71–119; English Summary, Pp. 107–110), Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah

A Mosaic Floor With Xenia At ‘En YaʻAl (Naḥal Refa’Im), Jerusalem (Hebrew, Pp. 121–126; English Summary, Pp. 111–112), Rina Talgam

Two Decorated Potsherds From The Islamic Period From Danny Mass Street, Ramla (Hebrew, Pp. 127–128; English, P. 120), Nitzan Amitai-Preiss