Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Atiqot
Angaben zur Quelle:
100 (2020) 245-277
Keywords:
Urbanization History
;
Cities and towns Growth
;
History
;
Mitḥam Magen Avraham (Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel)
;
Eretz Israel Antiquities
;
Jaffa (Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel) Buildings, structures, etc.
Abstract:
The excavation in the Magen Avraham Compound exposed the remains of Yafo’s agricultural hinterland during the Hellenistic, Byzantine and Crusader periods. Seven strata were exposed, including a single Hellenistic-period wall, a Byzantine-period industrial (wine?) press of unusual size, Ottoman-period graves, a large late Ottoman-period well house and an irrigation channel. Most of the pottery found in fill accumulations throughout the compound dated to the Byzantine period, including mainly storage jars. Small ceramic assemblages from the Hellenistic, Roman, Early Islamic and Crusader periods, mostly unrelated to structures, were also found. The structures uncovered here furnish important insights regarding the historical development of Yafo and its agricultural hinterland.
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