090) Ṣuwwanet eth-Thaniya/Jiser Abu Ghabush
[PADIS code 0173]
Arabic: صوانة الثنية
Site location: Lat. +31° 52' 54.88" N; Long. +35° 27' 23.24" E.
Site extension: 5 dunams.
State of preservation: under modern cultivations and modern edification.
Disturbance: modern cultivations, modern building activities.
Occupational periods: Late Chalcolithic, Middle Bronze Age, Iron II-III, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Late Islamic.
Plates: I, III.
Late Chalcolithic Period
Site typology: village.
Domestic architecture: pits, silos, hearths, mud-brick walls.
Material culture: stone objects, lithic material, pottery.
Bibliography: Landes 1968; 1975, 9-11, figs. 5-6; Greenberg - Keinan 2009, 66, site n. 308, map 2; excavations carried out by the Palestinian Department of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage in 1994.
Middle Bronze Age
Site typology: occupational layers.
Material culture: pottery.
Bibliography: Landes 1975, 1.
Iron Age II-III
Site typology: village.
Domestic architecture: houses, stone hearths.
Material culture: ostrakon with Hebrew inscription, glass, bronze buckle, pottery.
Bibliography: Landes 1968; 1975, 5-10, figs. 3-4, 7-8; Greenberg - Keinan 2009, 66, site n. 308, map 2.
Hellenistic Period
Site typology: occupational layers.
Material culture: pottery.
Bibliography: Landes 1975; Greenberg - Keinan 2009, 66, site n. 308, map 2.
Roman Period
Site typology: village.
Domestic architecture: houses, cistern.
Material culture: coins, clay loomweights, pottery.
Bibliography: Landes 1975, 3, 5, figs. 2, 9; Greenberg - Keinan 2009, 66, site n. 308, map 2; excavations carried out by the Palestinian Department of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage in 1997.
Byzantine Period
Site typology: occupational layers.
Material culture: pottery.
Bibliography: Landes 1975, 3, 9.
Late Islamic Period
Site typology: occupational layers.
Material culture: pottery.
Bibliography: Landes 1975, 3.
Bibliography
| Augustinović, A. | |
| 1951 | Gerico e dintorni, Jerusalem 1951 (plan). |
| Greenberg, R. - Keinan, A. | |
| 2009 | Israeli Archaeological Activity in the West Bank 1967-2007. A Sourcebook, Jerusalem 2009 (in particular p. 66, site n. 308, map 2). |
| Landes, G.M. | |
| 1968 | "Suwwanet eth-Thaniya, Notes and News", in Israel Exploration Journal 18 (1968), pp. 130-133. |
| 1975 | "Report on an Archaeological 'Rescue Operation' at Ṣuwwanet eth-Taniya in the Jordan Valley North of Jericho", in G.M. Landes (ed.), Report on Archaeological Work at Ṣuwwanet eth-Thaniya, Tananir, and Khirbet Minha (Munhata) (BASOR Supplemental Studies 21), Missoula, Montana 1975, pp. 1-22. |