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Endnotes
1.
The first three seasons of excavations at Tel Moẓa were conducted by Zvi Greenhut and Alon De Groot, assisted by Hamudi Khalaily and Anna Eirikh. In 2012 excavations resumed under Anna Eirikh, Hamudi Khalaily, Shua Kisilevitz, and Zvi Greenhut, assisted by Daniel Ein-Mor and David Yeger. They were carried out in advance of the construction of a new segment of Highway 1, near the entrance to Jerusalem, on behalf of the IAA and financed by the National Roads Company of Israel. The excavation areas and the depth to which these were excavated was determined primarily by the requirements of the planned constructions.
2. See Zvi Greenhut and Alon De Groot, et al. Salvage Excavations at Tel Moza: The Bronze and Iron Age Settlements and Later Occupations, IAA Reports 39 (Jerusalem: IAA, 2009), p. 223.
3.
Two of the structures excavated in 2012-2013 may have continued into the Babylonian and perhaps early Persian periods (586-332 B.C.E.). If so, the site was not destroyed during the Babylonian conquest as previously believed but continued to function as an economic center for several decades after the fall of Jerusalem and the demise of the Kingdom of Judah. This tentative assertion is pending further examination of the material.