Field Report on the 2023 German-Israeli Tell Iẓṭabbā Excavation Project (Beth Sheʾan), Israel

This article concerns the results of the third excavation campaign of the German-Israeli Tell Iẓṭabbā Excavation Project. Tell Iẓṭabbā is the location of the town of Nysa (Scythopolis) founded in the Seleucid period. This campaign was carried out in the months of February and March 2023. Based on...

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Authors: Edrey, Meir (Author) ; Ebeling, Philip (Author) ; Harpak, Tamar (Author) ; Lichtenberger, Achim 1970- (Author) ; Tal, Oren 1968- (Author)
Format: Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Harrassowitz 2023
In: Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins
Year: 2023, Volume: 139, Issue: 2, Pages: 218-233, Tafel 26-30
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Seleukiden / Archaeology / Settlement / Seleucid Empire / Bet Shean / History
IxTheo Classification:HH Archaeology
TB Antiquity
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Summary:This article concerns the results of the third excavation campaign of the German-Israeli Tell Iẓṭabbā Excavation Project. Tell Iẓṭabbā is the location of the town of Nysa (Scythopolis) founded in the Seleucid period. This campaign was carried out in the months of February and March 2023. Based on our geophysical prospection of the site in February 2019 as well as other archaeological considerations, three areas of archaeological interest were excavated (E, F and G). The excavated evidence sheds light on the Seleucid-period foundation site and its Hasmonean destruction; in addition, it yields records on both earlier (Early Bronze Age) and later (Byzantine) occupations. The focus was on studying the site's Hellenistic and Byzantine fortifications as well as domestic architecture. Construction methods employed in these complexes show the predominance of local building traditions, while the unearthed finds reveal a . mix of local and imported goods from the eastern Mediterranean.
ISSN:0012-1169
Contains:Enthalten in: Deutscher Verein zur Erforschung Palästinas, Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins