The archaeology of the Ostraca House at Israelite Samaria : epigraphic discoveries in complicated contexts /

The archaeology of the Ostraca House at Israelite Samaria : epigraphic discoveries in complicated contexts /

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Main Author: Tappy, Ron E. (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Boston, MA : American Schools of Oriental Research, [2016].

Series: Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research ; 70.
AASOR ; 70.

Subjects:

Ostraka > West Bank > Samaria (Region)
Inscriptions > West Bank > Samaria (Region)
Excavations (Archaeology) > West Bank > Samaria (Region)
Samaria (West Bank : Region) > Antiquities.

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Call Number: DS101 .A45 v.70

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction and background
  • Horizontal axis : the ostraca building's original footprint and surrounding area
  • Vertical axis : the ostraca building's complex depositional history
  • Ceramic considerations
  • The Samaria ostraca and modern scholarship
  • Back to the backstory : the characters and concerns behind the Harvard expedition to Samaria
  • Appendix A: Ostraca : provenance data and vessel descriptions
  • Appendix B: Ostraca : sequence of discovery
  • Appendix C: Non-epigraphic pottery with provenance data matching those of the ostraca
  • Appendix D: D.G. Lyon's report to the president of Harvard University for the academic year 1898-1899, showing the financial generosity of Jakob Heinrich Schiff
  • Appendix E: Reisner's field drawings of selected ostraca.