Kuntillet ʻAjrud (Ḥorvat Teman) : an Iron Age II religious site on the Judah-Sinai border / Ze'ev Meshel ; with contributions by A. Aḥituv ... [and others] ; editor, Liora Freud ; English style, John Tresman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meshel, Zeev.

Contributor:

Aḥituv, Shmuel.

Freud, Liora

Ḥevrah la-ḥaḳirat Erets-Yiśraʼel ṿe-ʻatiḳoteha.

Edwin B. Cole Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iron age.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Kuntillat Jurayyah (Egypt)--Antiquities.

Kuntillat Jurayyah (Egypt).

Excavations (Archaeology)--Egypt--Kuntillat Jurayyah.

Iron age--Egypt--Kuntillat Jurayyah.

Egypt--Kuntillat Jurayyah.

Physical Description:

xxxv, 364 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 32 cm

Other Title:

Ḥorvat Teman

Place of Publication:

Jerusalem : Israel Exploration Society, 2012.

Contents:

The site : location, environment and exploration / Zeʼev Meshel

Architecture, plan and phases / Zeʼev Meshel and Avner Goren

¹⁴C dates from Kuntillet ʻAjrud / Israel Carmi and Dror Segal

The nature of the site and its biblical background / Zeʼev Meshel

The inscriptions / Shmuel Aḥituv, Esther Eshel and Zeʼev Meshel

The drawings and decorative designs / Pirhiya Beck

The pottery assemblage / Etan Ayalon ; Appendix A / Yuval Goren ; Appendix B / by the editor

The origin of the pottery / Jan Gunneweg, Isadore Perlman and Zeʼev Meshel

Textiles and basketry / Avigail Sheffer and Amalia Tidhar

Remains of cords and a textile impression on a clay stopper / Orit Shamir

Wooden objects / Yigal Sitry

The faunal remains and the function of the site / Liora Kolska Horwitz, Shlomo Hellwing, Omri Lernau and Henk K. Mienis ; Supplement / Baruch Arensburg and Regita Yakar

The botanical remains / Nili Liphschitz

Stone artifacts / Nadin Reshef.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 358-364).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edwin B. Cole Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9789652210883

9652210889

OCLC:

801986683