The Temple Complex at Horvat Omrit

Volume 2: The Stratigraphy, Ceramics, and Other Finds
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-46189-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 67, 408 Seiten, Format (B × H): 215 mm x 289 mm, Gewicht: 1798 g

Reihe: The Brill Reference Library of Judaism

Horvat Omrit is a Roman period sanctuary complex in northern Israel with well-preserved temple architecture. This report presents artifacts recovered in the temenos excavations from 1999 to 2011. The volume begins with a discussion of the excavated stratigraphy, the major building phases, and the dates associated with them. Subsequent chapters examine Hellenistic and Roman ceramics, lamps, terracotta figurines, wall paintings and frescoes, coins from the Roman and medieval periods, a dedicatory pavement inscription, a 3rd-century BCE Aramaic inscription, faunal remains, jewellery, an 8th-century BCE cylinder seal, a marble sphinx, a stucco relief, and a small, inscribed altar. An appendix associates the catalogued artifacts with their stratigraphic locations. Altogether the artifacts contribute to the archaeology and history of a diverse Galilee.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Overman, J Andrew

N Schowalter, Daniel

C Nelson, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Archäologie spezieller Regionen und Zeitalter
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Materielle Kultur, Wirtschaftsethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface, Excavation Methodology, and Nomenclature

List of Tables, Figures and Plates

Abbreviations

Introduction

J. Andrew Overman

1 The Stratigraphy

J. Andrew Overman, Daniel N. Schowalter, Michael C. Nelson, and Nanette Goldman

2 The Hellenistic and Roman Pottery

Débora Sandhaus

3 The Lamps: Catalog and Discussion

Renate Rosenthal-Heginbottom

4 The Terracotta Figurines

Adi Erlich

5 Wall Painting Remains in Horvat Omrit: Final Report

Silvia Rozenberg

6 The Coins from the Temple Excavations at Omrit

Gabriela Bijovsky

7 An Inscription on the Paving of the Omrit Temple Complex

Daniel N. Schowalter

8 A Fragmentary Aramaic Inscription from the 3rd Century BCE

Hagai Misgav

9 Sacrificial Holocaust: The Faunal Remains from the Roman Temple Excavations at Omrit

Rachel Hesse

10 Jewelry from the Temple Area

Tziona Grossmark

11 A Roman Sphinx Statue from Omrit

Tali Sharvit

12 A Neo-Assyrian Cylinder Seal from Horvat Omrit Dated to the Reign of Sargon II (721–705 BCE)

Baruch Brandl and Tziona Grossmark

13 A Stucco Relief

Adi Erlich

14 The Zeus Altar

Emily Prosch

Appendix: Square Stratigraphy and Associated Material Culture

Index

Plates

Über Autor(innen)

J. Andrew Overman, Ph.D. (1989) Boston University, is the Drake Distinguished Professor in Art History and the Humanities at Macalester College. He has excavated numerous sites in northern Israel and the Black Sea.

Daniel N. Schowalter, Th.D. (1989) Harvard University, is Emeritus Professor of Classics and Religion at Carthage College in Kenosha, WI. He also digs at Mandeure, a Roman theater/sanctuary in eastern France, and studies Roman religion at sites around the Mediterranean.

Michael C. Nelson, Ph.D. (2001), University of Toronto, is an Associate Professor of Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology at Queens College. He published Volume 1 which presented the architecture of the three Roman period temples.