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ReViews: Masada Pottery

By Hershel Shanks

Masada VII, The Yigael Yadin Excavations 1963–1965, Final Reports, The Pottery of Masada

Rachel Bar-Nathan
(Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2006), 7 color plates, 425 pp., $92 (hardback)

Judea at the time of Herod, Jesus and the Jewish defenders of Masada made use of a pottery corpus different from its neighbors and different from what went before or after. That is the conclusion of Rachel Bar-Nathan, author of Volume VII of the final report of the excavations carried out at Masada between 1963 and 1965 under the direction of Israel’s most illustrious archaeologist, Yigael Yadin. Bar-Nathan calls this distinctive ceramic repertoire “Judean Pottery.” It is now more than 40 years since the excavation ended. Joseph Aviram, Yadin’s colleague and close friend who continues to lead the Israel […]

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