Abstract
The excavation revealed a burial cave containing three arcosolia, each with two or three burial troughs. Twenty-one complete clay candlestick lamps and numerous fragments of other lamps were retrieved, all of them dating to the Byzantine–early Umayyad periods. Two of the lamps bear Greek inscriptions. Also found were 300 fragments of glass vessels, of which only 23 were diagnostic. The glass vessels, free-blown and decorated in a variety of techniques, are characteristic of Byzantine-era Jerusalem; several vessels might also date later, to the early Umayyad period. Thirty glass beads were retrieved, one of which was made of mosaic glass (millefiori). Although they are typical of the Late Roman period, the beads seem to have been interred in the cave during the Byzantine period. The burial cave was probably part of the cemetery of Ḥorbat Gores (Khirbat al-Juarish), which was a small village in the agricultural settlement along Naḥal Refa’im during the Byzantine–Early Islamic periods.
Keywords
cemetery, burial goods, rural settlement, agricultural hinterland, anthropology
Recommended Citation
Solimany, Gideon; Winter, Tamar; and de Vincenz, Anna
(2006)
"A Burial Cave from the Byzantine and Early Islamic Periods in Ḥorbat Gores, The Gonen Quarter, Jerusalem (Hebrew, pp. 87*–94*; English summary, pp. 161–163),"
'Atiqot: Vol. 54, Article 15.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.70967/2948-040X.1335
Available at:
https://publications.iaa.org.il/atiqot/vol54/iss1/15
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