061) Mughr el-Maqrabanna (cemetery)
[PADIS code 0026]
Arabic: (مغر المغربانة (مقبرة
Site location: Lat. +31° 52' 13.87" N; Long. 35° 26' 15.64" E.
Site extension: 120 dunams.
State of preservation: partly preserved.
Occupational period: Roman.
Site typology: cemetery.
Funerary architecture: rock-cut tombs, kokhim with inscriptions (Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek).
Material culture: wall paintings, wooden coffins, ossuaries (with Aramaic, Hebrew and Greek inscriptions), glass, faïence and glass beads, coins, bronze tools and objects, iron tools, bone tools, wooden bowls, leather (sandals), stone and basalt weights, obsidian flakes, pottery.
Bibliography: Hachlili 1978; 1979a; 1979b; 1980; 1981; 1983a; 1983b; 1985; 1993; 1994; 1997; Hachlili et al. 1981; Hachlili - Killebrew 1981; 1983a; 1983b; 1999; Greenberg - Keinan 2009, 70, site n. 343.
Plate: I.
Bibliography
| Greenberg, R. - Keinan, A. | |
| 2009 | Israeli Archaeological Activity in the West Bank 1967-2007. A Sourcebook, Jerusalem 2009 (in particular p. 70, site n. 343, map 2). |
| Hachlili, R. | |
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| 1981 | "The House of 'Goliath' - A Family at Jericho in the First Century CE", in Qadmoniot 14 (1981), pp. 118-122 (Hebr.). |
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