Abstract
A salvage excavation conducted at Moshav Alone Abba revealed an oil press of the Roman period that was situated within a cave. The crushing installation at Alone Abba is of a type used from the end of the Persian period until recent times. The olive mash was pressed in a Maresha-type lever-and-weights press, one of a variety of lever-press types in use in the country. The finds comprise pottery from the Hellenistic–Middle Roman periods; a stamped amphora handle; seven bone spatulas; a stone stamp; and two coins from the beginning of the second century CE. The Roman-period pottery evinces a marked affinity to that of Jewish sites of the period.
Keywords
Galilee, oil production, ethnicity, lever press, screw press, Talmud, historical sources, winepress typology, numismatics
Recommended Citation
Porat, Leea; Frankel, Rafael; and Getzov, Nimrod
(2012)
"The Lever Presses of Eretz Israel in the Light of the Alone Abba Oil Press (with contributions by Shulamit Hadad, Gerald Finkielsztejn and Danny Syon) (Hebrew, pp. 51–81; English summary, pp. 84*–86*),"
'Atiqot: Vol. 70, Article 7.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.70967/2948-040X.1530
Available at:
https://publications.iaa.org.il/atiqot/vol70/iss1/7
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