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Riches at Ein Yael

What’s a Roman Villa Doing Outside Jerusalem?

By Gershon Edelstein

Archaeology is full of surprises!

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Footnotes

1.

See Gershon Edelstein and Shimon Gibson, “Ancient Jerusalem’s Rural Food Basket,” BAR 08:04; Gibson and Edelstein, “Investigating Jerusalem’s Rural Landscape,” Levant 17 (1985).

2.

Support for our work was provided by the Jerusalem Foundation, the Jewish National Fund and the Israel Antiquities Authority.

3.

See Dan Cole, “How Water Tunnels Worked,” BAR 06:02.

4.

A satyr, in Greek mythology, is a woodland deity usually represented as part human and part goat. He is known for his riotous and lascivious character.

5.

Medusa, in Greek mythology, is one of the three Gorgon sisters. She has snakes for hair and a face that turns anyone who looks at her into stone.

Endnotes

1.

All material relating to the mosaics was provided by Lucille Roussin.

2.

Shimon Applebaum, Judea in Hellenistic and Roman Times (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1989), pp. 155–165.

3.

My thanks to Professor Yaakov Meshorer of the Israel Museum, who supplied this material.

4.

Yohanan Aharoni, Excavations at Rarnat Rahel 1962–3 Season (Rome: Centro di Studi Semitici, Instituto di Studi del Vicino Oriente Universita, 1964), pp. 14–17.