007) Abu el-‘Alayiq South, Tell
[PADIS code 0016]
Arabic: تلول أبو العلايق الجنوبي
Site location: Lat. +31° 51' 6.31" N; Long. +35° 26' 10.74" E.
Site extension: see Tell Abu el-‘Alayiq North.
State of preservation: preserved.
Disturbance: modern cultivations.
Occupational periods: Pottery Neolithic B, Late Chalcolithic, Early Bronze I, Early Bronze II-III, Early Bronze IV, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Early Islamic, Middle Islamic, Ottoman.
Plates: I, III-VII, XI-XX.
Pottery Neolithic B
Site typology: occupational layers.
Domestic architecture: occupational layers.
Material culture: pottery.
Bibliography: Pritchard 1958, 14-16, 20 (diagnostic sherds: pls. 22:3, 30:11-12, 31:6-7, 12-13).
Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze I
Site typology: village.
Domestic architecture: occupational layers.
Material culture: flint tools, pottery (among which Grey Burnished Ware).
Bibliography: Kelso - Baramki 1955, 8-10, pls. 1, 10, 33, 35; Pritchard 1958, 17-21, 42-48 (diagnostic sherds: pls. 22:12, 37, 57:27-35, 41-43, 54-55, 56); Foerster 1993.
Early Bronze II
Site typology: village.
Domestic architecture: occupational layers.
Material culture: flint tools, pottery.
Bibliography: Pritchard 1958, 14-16, 20 (diagnostic sherds: pls. 23: 6, 28:1-4, 7-8, 10, 57:46).
Early Bronze III
Site typology: village.
Domestic architecture: occupational layers.
Material culture: flint tools, pottery.
Bibliography: Pritchard 1958, 14-16 (diagnostic sherds: pls. 21:10, 22:16, 24:11, 28:5, 29:2-3, 6, 57:22, 40, 45).
Early Bronze IV
Site typology: village.
Domestic architecture: occupational layers.
Material culture: pottery.
Bibliography: Pritchard 1958, 14-16, 20 (diagnostic sherds: pls. 21:8, 29:1, 4-5).
Hellenistic Period
Site typology: fortress.
Public architecture: fortress.
Material culture: pottery.
Bibliography: Netzer 2001a, 325-326; Greenberg - Keinan 2009, 71-72, site n. 357.
Roman Period
Site typology: palace complex.
Public architecture: Herodian villa (pre-Third Palace phase), Herod's First Palace, Herod's Third Palace (southern wing), bathhouse (related to Herod's Third Palace).
Domestic architecture: houses (pre-Third Palace phase), villa (post-Herodian Period), pits (post-Herodian Period: 2nd century AD).
Material culture: frescoes, column drums, capitals, mosaics, opus sectile floors, stone basins and furniture, glass, coins, Terra Sigillata Ware, pottery.
Bibliography: Conder - Kitchener 1883, 224-225; Sellin - Watzinger - Nöldecke 1909, 30-36; Sellin - Watzinger 1913, 12, fig. 4; Kelso 1950; Pritchard 1951; 1958, 1-14, 21, pls. 1-19, 53 (diagnostic sherds: pls. 40, 42, 45-47); North 1967; Kelso - Baramki 1955, 3-8, 10-13, pls. 1-3, 6-9, 18-21, 33-36, 38-40; North 1956; Johnson 1958, 24-29, pl. 60; Meshel 1973; Netzer 1974, 28-36; 1975, 93-100; 1977, 7-12, figs. 10-13; 1982, 48-49; 1983, 51; 1986; 1990, 44-46, figs. 9, 12; 1993, 687-690; 1999, 32-34, 40-54; 2001a, 7-10, 229-298, 317-324, 326-330, 339-341; 2001b; 2006, 45-49, 54-72; 2008, 45-49, 54-72; Gleason 1985; Nigro, F. 1998, 208-209; Donceel-Voûte 1999, 100-105; Netzer - Bar-Nathan 2002, 17-19, 119-121; Meshorer 2004; Yahya 2007, 15-17; Rozenberg 2008; Greenberg - Keinan 2009, 71-72, site n. 357.
Byzantine Period
Site typology: village (?).
Domestic architecture: houses.
Funerary Architecture: mausoleum.
Material culture: pottery.
Bibliography: Pritchard 1958, pl. 19:2-3 (diagnostic sherds: pl. 19:2-3, 41); Netzer 1977; 1993, 691; 2001a, 286, fig. 429.
Early Islamic Period
Site typology: fortress.
Public architecture: fortress.
Material culture: inscribed marble slab, coins, pottery.
Bibliography: Kelso - Baramki 1955, 39-41; Miles 1958, 24, 29-40, pls. 61-62; Pritchard 1958, 21-23 (diagnostic sherds: pl. 51:1-6); Netzer 1993, 691; 2001a, 10, 341; Cirelli - Zagari 2000, 368-369.
Middle Islamic Period
Site typology: scattered materials.
Material culture: coins.
Bibliography: Miles 1958, 40.
Ottoman Period
Site typology: scattered materials.
Material culture: coins.
Bibliography: Miles 1958, 41.
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