‘Atiqot is an open access, non-profit thematic journal dedicated to specific topics related to the archaeology of Israel. It is published by the Israel Antiquities Authority three times a year, online and in print. All content published in the journal is subject to double-blind peer-review and language editing. The printed volumes are available for purchase via the IAA website.
Current Volume: Volume 119 (2025) Archaeological Perspectives on Water Use and Management
This volume provides insights into various aspects of water, including its storage and management from the Iron Age through the Ottoman period, emphasizing its fundamental role in the daily lives of ancient peoples. The range of activities related to water is broad, including the collection and storage of water for drinking, cooking, irrigation, bathing, ritual purification etc. Water is indispensable across all dimensions of human activity, both at the individual level and within the most complex social structures, and it remains vital in every endeavor.
Front Matter
Editorial Board and Zvi Greenhut
The Date and Function of the Horizontal Gutter-Like Water Channels along the Walls of the Herodian Temple Mount
Nahshon Szanton and Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah
Revisiting the ‘Aujah Aqueducts: New Insights and Discoveries
Yevgeny Aharonovich, Hananya Hizmi, Tal Orenshtein, and Haim Shkolnik
The Water Cisterns in the Roman-Period Jewish Town of Bet She‘arim
Danny Binshtok, Adi Erlich, and Tsvika Tsuk
The Circular Structure at ‘Ein al-Qastal: A Springhouse?
Jacob Sharvit and Ofra Barkai
The Naḥal ‘Avedat Reservoirs: A Unique Road Site in the Negev Highlands
Tali Erickson-Gini and Ofer Sion
Exploring the Wall Graffiti in the Raqafot Reservoir, Be’er Sheva‘
Davida Eisenberg-Degen and Deborah Cvikel
Strategic Water Management in the Fortified Monasteries of Western Samaria as a Tool for Controlling an Agricultural Region
Yair Elmakayes, David Ben-Shlomo, Naomi Hadad, and Amos Frumkin
The Water-Supply System to Ramla in the Early Islamic Period
Ron Toueg, Yuliya Gummeny, Oren Shmueli, and Omri Danziger
A Spring Tunnel, Aqueducts and Water-Powered Flour Mills along Naḥal Qeni: A History of Water Exploitation
Yotam Tepper
A Unique Historical Water Lifting System in Southern Palestine
Avraham (Avi) Sasson
Monumental Construction and Water Management at the Foot of the Temple Mount, Western Wall Tunnels Excavations, Jerusalem
Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah
The Pottery from the Western Wall Tunnels, Jerusalem
Peretz Reuven
Architectural Elements and a Statue Fragment from the Western Wall Tunnels, Jerusalem
Orit Peleg-Barkat
Coins from the Western Wall Tunnels, Jerusalem
Yanniv David Levy
Roman-Period Radiocarbon Chronology of the Great Causeway, Western Wall Tunnels, Jerusalem
Johanna Regev, Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah, Eugenia Mintz, Lior Regev, and Elisabetta Boaretto
Petaḥ Tiqwa, Mulabbis: A Crusader-Period Water Reservoir and Finds form the Byzantine, Early Islamic and Ottoman Periods (with contributions by Lior Rauchberger, Nitzan Amitai-Priess, Amir Golani)
Elie Haddad and Ruth Smadar Gabrieli
Glass Finds from Excavations at Petaḥ Tiqwa, Mulabbis
Yael Gorin-Rosen
