Sprache:
Hebräisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
במעבה ההר; מחקרי הר אפרים ובנימין
Angaben zur Quelle:
10,2 (תשף) 195-225
Schlagwort(e):
Olive oil presses History
;
Olive oil mills History
;
Caves
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Eretz Israel History 1517-1917, Ottoman period
;
Bet-Shemesh (Extinct city) (Israel) Antiquities
Kurzfassung:
Extensive excavations in the eastern part of Tel Beth Shemesh, east of Route 38, have been carried during 2018–2020, by the Israeli Institute of Archaeology on behalf of the Institute of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University and the Israel Antiquities Authority, allowing theroad to be widened. The excavations uncovered remains from the Late Bronze Age to the Ottoman period. This article describes two caves containing olive oil presses in the Ottoman village of ‘Ain Shems, which was apparently abandoned in the late 18th or early 19th century. The stone parts of the oil presses that have survived enable us to understand the essence and operation of these installations, despite the disappearance of their wooden components.In the southwestern part of the site, a cave with a collapsed ceiling was excavated. The built base of a crushing basin was discovered, along with a complete crushing stone, a niche for anchoring the beam, a rock-cut collecting vat and a screw weight set within a pit. At alater stage the oil press was abandoned but the cave remained in use, apparently as a dwelling and storage space, and the collecting vat became a storage installation, sealed with a stone lid.The second cave was discovered in the northern part of the village, but has not yet been excavated; only the visible components have been documented. They include fragments of at least seven crushing basins and two complete crushing stones, a built niche to hold the beam, and a large, flat basin adjacent to it in which the pressing baskets were apparently filled with the crushed olives. Also found in the cave, not in situ, were the screw weight and a complete portable collecting vat typical of Iron Age oil presses. This oil press was also abandoned later, but use of the cave continued.
Anmerkung:
With an English abstract.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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