Footnote 2 – Digging the Talmud in Ancient Meiron
This designation itself raises problems. We know there were many more than four villages in Upper Galilee in this period. The four villages referred to were apparently the largest—the only ones more than tiny hamlets. Roman documents do not identify the settlements to which the provincial title refers and modern scholarship has not yet successfully identified them with certainty. Unfortunately, it is often difficult to determine the size of an ancient site.