LIST OF FIGURES ................................................ ix
LIST OF TABLES .............................................. xxvii
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS .................................. xxix
INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND
1 Introduction ................................................. 1
David Ben-Shlomo and Gus W. Van Beek
2 Environmental Background of Tell Jemmeh ..................... 16
Gus W. Van Beek
THE ARCHITECTURE, STRATIGRAPHY AND FINDS FROM THE DIFFERENT
EXCAVATION FIELDS
3 Field III: The Southeastern Step Trench ..................... 21
David Ben-Shlomo
4 Field II: The Northwestern Stepped Trench .................. 162
David Ben-Shlomo
5 The South Trench (ST1) ..................................... 198
David Ben-Shlomo
6 Field I: The Late Bronze Age ............................... 209
David Ben-Shlomo
7 Field I Furnace (the Kiln), Square KB, and FUR 2-FUR 3 ..... 337
David Ben-Shlomo
8 Results from Field IV: The Iron II and Later Periods ....... 403
David Ben-Shlomo
9 Bread Ovens and Related Installations ...................... 642
Alexander Zukerman
POTTERY STUDIES
10 Decorated Canaanite Pottery ................................ 651
Gwanghyun Choi
11 Imported Cypriot and Mycenaean Wares and Derivative Wares .. 657
Celia J. Bergoffen
12 Decorated Philistine Pottery ............................... 721
David Ben-Shlomo
13 Assyrian-Style Pottery (Palace Ware) ....................... 732
David Ben-Shlomo
14 "East Greek" and Greek Imported Pottery of the First
Millennium ВСЕ ............................................. 749
S. Rebecca Martin
15 Petrographic Analysis of Pottery: Chalcolithic to Persian
Period ..................................................... 776
David Ben-Shlomo
16 Computerized Documentation and Analysis of Pottery
Vessels .................................................... 795
Avshalom Karasik
SMALL FINDS STUDIES
17 Ceramic Figurines and Figurative Terra-cottas .............. 804
David Ben-Shlomo, Ron Gardiner, and Gus Van Beek
18 Worked Sherds .............................................. 828
David Ben-Shlomo and Ron Gardiner
19 Ceramic Objects: Marked Pottery, Mud Objects, and Various
Ceramic Artifacts .......................................... 838
David Ben-Shlomo
20 Clay Sealings and Seal Impressions ......................... 857
David Ben-Shlomo and Othmar Keel
21 Nonjewelry Metal Objects ................................... 876
David Ben-Shlomo and Ron Gardiner
22 Metallic and Nonmetallic Jewelry Objects ................... 889
Amir Golani
23 Stone Artifact Assemblage from Tell Jemmeh ................. 917
Yorke M. Rowan
24 Egyptian Amulets from Tell Jemmeh .......................... 970
Christian Herrmann
25 Various Finds: Faience, Glass, Bone, Ivory, and Pumice ..... 977
David Ben-Shlomo
26 Chipped Stone Assemblage from Tell Jemmeh .................. 987
Steven A. Rosen and Jakob Vardi
27 Scarabs and Stamp Seals ................................... 1004
Othmar Keel
28 Cylinder Seals: A Clay Cylinder with Cuneiform Signs ...... 1017
Wayne Horowitz and Tallay Ornan
29 Cylinder Seals: A Mitannian Cylinder Seal with
a Worshipper and Divine Images ............................ 1020
Tallay Ornan
NUMBER
30 Coins: Coins from the 1970-1990 Excavation Seasons at
Tell Jemmeh ............................................... 1023
Donald T. Ariel
31 Coins: The Crusader Purse from Tell Jemmeh ................ 1026
Robert Kool
32 Ostraca from Tell Jemmeh .................................. 1031
Haggai Misgav
SUBSISTENCE STUDIES
33 Temporal Trends in Animal Exploitation: Faunal Analysis
from Tell Jemmeh .......................................... 1038
Edward R. Maher
CONCLUSIONS
34 Synthesis and Conclusions: The Significance of Tell
Jemmeh .................................................... 1054
David Ben-Shlomo
REFERENCES ................................................... 1067
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