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Authors

Zubair Adawi

Abstract

Two excavation areas were exposed at the site of Khirbat el-Mughram: in the western area, a burial cave was partially excavated, and in the eastern area, a revetment wall for an agricultural terrace was unearthed. The burial cave consists of two arcosolia and two loculi (kokhim), a phenomena characteristic of the Second Temple period. The finds in the cave include pottery dating to the period between the two revolts (70–135 CE), six limestone ossuaries and six ossuary lids. All the ossuaries are decorated in low relief; one ossuary is incised with a name in Greek, and another exhibits traces of paint. A candlestick-type glass bottle was retrieved from the cave, pointing to a date in the first–third centuries CE. The terrace wall was preserved to a height of one course. In the fills abutting the wall were ceramic finds dating from the Iron Age to the Late Roman period.

Keywords

burial, grave goods, agriculture, hinterland, epigraphy, anthropology

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