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Home > Books > The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land

Color Plates

PLATE I

Eilat Region: dwelling and sanctuary sites from the Neolithic period to the Early Bronze Age.

PLATE II

Sha‘ar ha-Golan: clay figurines of females with coffee-bean eyes, Pottery Neolithic period.

Tel Esur: Early Bronze Age IA elliptical buildings and Late Chalcolithic rectangular buildings.

PLATE III

Peqi‘in Cave: clay artifacts from the Chalcolithic period.

PLATE IV

Ashkelon: inner side of the mud-brick arched city gate of the Middle Bronze Age. Inset: falcon vase from the Middle Bronze Age IIB.

PLATE V

Hazor, finds from the Canaanite palace: basalt statue of a deity (left); and bronze figurines (right).

Hazor: Canaanite palace.

PLATE VI

Hazor, finds from the Canaanite palace: bone inlays of a jewelry box (upper left); inscribed clay tablet (lower left); and bronze statuette of a ruler (right).

Hazor, area A: the six-chambered gate and casemate wall (front) and Canaanite palace (under roof).

PLATE VII

Tel Beth-Shean: plaster painted in an Egyptian style, twelfth century BCE (left); and human figures painted on pottery, fourteenth century BCE (right).

Tel Beth-Shean, looking west.

PLATE VIII

Tel Reḥov, Iron Age IIA artifacts: ceramic model shrine (left); clay figurine (center); Phoenician painted jar (upper right); and ceramic altar (lower right).

Tel Reḥov: aerial view, looking east.

PLATE IX

Tel Miqne (Ekron), field IV lower: elite zone in the lower city, Iron Age I (foreground) and Iron Age II (background).

Tel Miqne (Ekron), field IV upper: temple complex 650, Iron Age II.

Tel Miqne (Ekron): royal dedicatory inscription of Ikausu, son of Padi.

PLATE X

Dan: inscription mentioning the House of David.

PLATE XI

Tel Beersheba: aerial view, looking southwest.

PLATE XII

Dor: limestone relief depicting the head of a Phoenician nobleman, Iron Age II.

Bethsaida (et-Tell): decorated stela, Iron Age II.

Bethsaida (et-Tell): eastern entrance to the inner Iron Age II gate.

PLATE XIII

Dor: two Persian period clay figurines of the child-god Horus-Harpocrates.

Dor: Persian period clay tile of a Gorgon (left); and head of a Hellenistic period clay figurine of Aphrodite (right).

PLATE XIV

Dor: Hellenistic period clay figurine of Cybele (left); and Roman period molded drinking vessel (right).

Dor: Hellenistic period mosaic fragment with a depiction of a theater mask and vegetation.

PLATE XV

Tel Kedesh: clay Hellenistic sealings.

Mareshah, Hellenistic ceramic artifacts: askos in the shape of a sandaled foot (left); Gorgon mask (center); and horse-head rhyton (right).

Mareshah: stone device for measuring liquids.

PLATE XVI

Mount Gerizim: view of the sacred precinct.

Mount Gerizim: inscription in Samaritan script, Middle Ages (left); and the tetragrammaton yhwh in Neo-Hebrew script, Hellenistic period (right).

PLATE XVII

Jerusalem: eastern side of the Second Temple period Pool of Siloam (left); and view of the Roman legionary kilnworks site at the Convention Center (right).

Jerusalem: paved Herodian street along the western wall of the Temple Mount enclosure, still partially covered by a heap of ashlars from the western wall.

PLATE XVIII

Lod: marine scene on the mosaic floor of the Roman hall.

Lod: main panel of the mosaic floor of the Roman hall.

PLATE XIX

Sepphoris: hunting scene on a mosaic in the Nile Festival building, Byzantine period.

Sepphoris: banqueting scene on the triclinium mosaic of the House of Orpheus, Roman period.

PLATE XX

Sepphoris synagogue mosaic, Byzantine period: zodiac panel (above); menorah and other Jewish symbols (lower left); and close-up of the Sagittarius sign on the zodiac (lower right).

PLATE XXI

Hippos (Sussita): view of the site, looking west toward the Sea of Galilee. Inset: dove-shaped bronze oil lamp from the Northwest Church, Byzantine period.

PLATE XXII

Caesarea: Christian saint on a painted mural (left); statue of a magistrate (center); and metal objects from a Fatimid hoard (right).

Caesarea: view of the southern area of the site, looking south.

PLATE XXIII

Marine Archaeology: Ottoman shipwreck at the southern anchorage of Dor (upper left); megalithic structure from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic site at ‘Atlit Yam (upper right); and cargo of basalt millstones from the Roman period at Apollonia-Arsuf (below).

PLATE XXIV

Beth-Shean: view of the site with the mound at center right and the civic center of the Roman-Byzantine period beyond it, looking southwest.

PLATE XXV

Beth-Shean: view of the agora with the mound in the background.

Beth-Shean: view of the Roman-Byzantine civic center.

PLATE XXVI

Beth-Shean: Tyche in the Byzantine Sigma mosaic floor (upper left); Early Islamic mosaic inscription (upper right); Byzantine anthropomorphic vessels (center left); marble statue of an emperor (center right); Byzantine tile floor (lower left); and Northeast Gate, city wall, and warehouse (lower right).

PLATE XXVII

Deir ‘Aziz: view of the synagogue, Byzantine period.

Ḥorvat Omrit: view of the temple complex, Roman period.

PLATE XXVIII

Khirbet Beit Sila: eastern end of the church, Byzantine period.

Khirbet Beit Sila: ambo (left) and reliquary (right) from the church.

PLATE XXIX

Apollonia-Arsuf: Crusader fortress, looking south.

PLATE XXX

Beth Guvrin: northern aisle of the Crusader church.

Acco: dining hall of the Hospitaller’s Compound.

Acco, Crusader period: ceramic bowl with a painting of a woman weaving (top); and decorative architectural fragments (center and bottom).

PLATE XXXI

Ramla: mosaic floor from a Fatimid building.

Nimrod Fortress: Mameluke relief depicting the lion emblem of Baybars.

Dor: Crusader painted ware.

PLATE XXXII

Beth-Shean: assemblage of decorative Ayyubid-Mameluke bowls.

PLATE I

Eilat Region: dwelling and sanctuary sites from the Neolithic period to the Early Bronze Age.

PLATE II

Sha‘ar ha-Golan: clay figurines of females with coffee-bean eyes, Pottery Neolithic period.

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