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Author MacKenzie, Duncan

Title The Excavations of Beth Shemesh, November-December 1912
Published London : Routledge, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (165 pages)
Series The Palestine Exploration Fund Annual Ser
Palestine Exploration Fund Annual Ser
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 1.1. Duncan Mackenzie's life and work: a brief overview; Works by Duncan Mackenzie; 1.2. Mackenzie's work at Beth Shemesh; 1.3. Work conducted at the site after Mackenzie; Elihu Grant's excavations (1928-33); The renewed excavations (1990 to the present); Middle and Late Bronze Ages; Iron Age I; Iron Age IIA; Iron Age IIB-C; 1.4. Mackenzie's manuscript on the third campaign of excavations at Beth Shemesh of November-December 1912: its rediscovery and transcription
2. Transcription: The excavations of Beth Shemesh November-December, 19122.1. Further Investigations in the Area of the South Gate; 2.2. The City Well of Beth Shemesh; 2.3. The Exploration of the High Place Grotto Sepulchre; 2.4. The Pottery of the High Place Grotto: First Beth Shemesh Period; 2.5. The Hypogeum in the Area of the High Place; 2.6. The Hypogeum-cistern by the Olive Press; 2.7. Further Excavations in the Central City Area; 2.8. The Stratification of the Deposits; 2.9. The Deposits of the First Period; 2.10. The Deposits of the Second Period
2.11. The Deposits of the Third or Israelite Period2.12. The Deposits of the Period of Re-occupation; 2.13. The Olive Press; 2.14. Small Finds from the City Site of Beth Shemesh; 3. Mackenzie's third campaign at Beth Shemesh in the light of the renewed excavations at the site; 3.1. The renewed excavations of the South Gate; The eastern gate tower; The western gate tower; The gate passage; The gate's construction; The end of the South Gate; 3.2. 'Water of Beth Shemesh': The 'City Well' and underground water reservoirs of Beth Shemesh; The City Well; The hypogea in the Central City Area
Deciphering depositional processes: water drawing and its aftermathSequencing the water installations at Beth Shemesh; 3.3. The High Place Grotto Sepulchre, a Middle Bronze Pre-fortification Phase?; 3.4. The Central City Area Deposits, from the First to the Third Periods; The deposits of the First Period; The deposits of the Second Period; The deposits of the Third Period; Mackenzie's revised stratigraphical scheme of the First to Third Periods at Beth Shemesh; 3.5. Deconstructing the Myth of the Reoccupation at Beth Shemesh
3.6. Mackenzie's Olive Press and the Iron Age IIB Oil Industry at Beth Shemesh3.7. Small Finds: The Iron Age Sickle Blades of Beth Shemesh; Bibliography; Index
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Form Electronic book
Author Bunimovitz, Shlomo
Lederman, Zvi
Momigliano, Nicoletta
ISBN 9781317247951
1317247957