Hellenistic Nysa-Scythopolis I
The German-Israeli Tell Iẓṭabba Excavation Project, the 2019–2020 Seasons
Achim Lichtenberger and Oren Tal
Hellenistic Nysa-Scythopolis I
The German-Israeli Tell Iẓṭabba Excavation Project, the 2019–2020 Seasons
Achim Lichtenberger and Oren Tal
This book deals with the first three campaigns of the German-Israeli Tell Iẓṭabba Excavation Project, conducted by the Institute for Classical Archaeology and Christian Archaeology / Archaeological Museum of the University of Münster and the Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University, under the direction of Achim Lichtenberger and Oren Tal. Tell Iẓṭabba is the location of the town of Nysa (Scythopolis), established in the Seleucid period, a short-lived Hellenistic site founded under Antiochus IV in the 160s BCE and destroyed under John Hyrcanus in 107 BCE. The excavations shed light upon the material culture of this period, as well as producing evidence of earlier (Early Bronze Age) and later (Byzantine) occupation.
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Achim Lichtenberger is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Münster and Director of the university’s Archaeological Museum, specializing in the archaeology of the Hellenistic and Roman Near East. He has been codirector of the German-Israeli Tell Iẓṭabba Excavation Project since 2019 and has codirected archaeological excavations in Jordan (Gerasa, 2011–2017) and Armenia (Artaxata, since 2018).
Oren Tal is Professor of Classical Archaeology at Tel Aviv University, specializing in the archaeology of the classical and medieval Near East. He has been codirector of the German-Israeli Tell Iẓṭabba Excavation Project since 2019 and director of the Apollonia-Arsuf Excavation Project since 2007 and has excavated many other sites in Israel.
PREFACE
CHAPTER 1 Introduction
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PART I: THE SITE
CHAPTER 2 A GIS Framework for the Historical and Modern Post-Occupational
Activities at Tell Iẓṭabba
MANUEL J.H. PETERS
CHAPTER 3 The Correlation between Magnetic Prospection Data and Excavation
Results at Nysa-Scythopolis
CORNELIUS MEYER
CHAPTER 4 Archival Archaeology: Beth-Shean in Philadelphia as a Test Case
PHILIP EBELING
PART II: STRATIGRAPHY AND ARCHITECTURE
CHAPTER 5 Introductory Remarks
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CHAPTER 6 Area A
MEIR EDREY, TAMAR HARPAK,
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CHAPTER 7 Area B
PHILIP EBELING, TAMAR HARPAK, ACHIM LICHTENBERGER AND OREN TAL
CHAPTER 8 Area C
MEIR EDREY, TAMAR HARPAK, ACHIM LICHTENBERGER AND OREN TAL
CHAPTER 9 Area D with Appendix: Spolia
MEIR EDREY, TAMAR HARPAK, ACHIM LICHTENBERGER AND OREN TAL
PART III: ARTIFACTS
CHAPTER 10 Pottery from the Persian and Hellenistic Periods
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CHAPTER 11 Lamps from the Hellenistic and Later Periods
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CHAPTER 12 Early Bronze Age Pottery and Flint Items
YITZHAK PAZ
CHAPTER 13 Vitreous Finds: Faience and Glass
RUTH E. JACKSON-TAL
CHAPTER 14 Metal Finds
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CHAPTER 15 Stone Finds
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CHAPTER 16 Terracotta Figurines with Appendix: A Handmade Ship-Like Object
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CHAPTER 17 Stucco Fragments and Their Chemical Analysis
DANA ASHKENAZI, ROMI SHNABEL, ACHIM LICHTENBERGER AND OREN TAL
CHAPTER 18 Textile Remains and Loom Weights
ORIT SHAMIR, ACHIM LICHTENBERGER AND OREN TAL
CHAPTER 19 Hellenistic Stamped Amphorae and Amphora Handles
DONALD T. ARIEL
CHAPTER 20 Inscribed Artifacts and Graffiti
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CHAPTER 21 Coins
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PART IV: ECOFACTS
CHAPTER 22 Faunal Remains
MIRIAM PINES
CHAPTER 23 Shells
HENK K. MIENIS AND OZ RITTNER
CHAPTER 24 Archaeobotanical Remains
ANDREA ORENDI
CHAPTER 25 Earthen Construction Practices
MARTA LORENZON AND BENJAMÍN CUTILLAS-VICTORIA
CHAPTER 26 Organic Residue Analysis: Preliminary Results
SILVIA POLLA, ANDREAS SPRINGER AND SHAILESHKUMAR VAGHASIYA
PART V: SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
CHAPTER 27 The 2019–2020 German-Israeli Excavations at Tell Iẓṭabba: New
Insights into the History and Archaeology of a Seleucid Site in the Beth-Shean Valley
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LIST OF LOCI
LIST OF WALLS
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TO SQUARES
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