Abstract
An excavation at the Ramlod Interchange exposed a subterranean circular, plastered installation, with one course of its vaulted roof still extant and two rectangular openings. The fill in the upper part of the installation consisted of animal bones, pottery sherds and fragments of glass vessels, and in the lower part were complete pottery and glass vessels, roof tiles and ceramic tiles mixed with charcoal and animal bones. It seems that the assemblage was discarded into the pit between the second half of the eighth and the first half of the ninth centuries CE. The installation, built on the hill at the outskirts of the city, was apparently one of many cesspits discovered in Ramla and its vicinity.
Keywords
Early Islamic period, Muslim, chronology, archaeozoology
Recommended Citation
Shmueli, Oren
(2016)
"An Early Islamic Installation at Ramla (pp. 27–39),"
'Atiqot: Vol. 86, Article 6.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.70967/2948-040X.1747
Available at:
https://publications.iaa.org.il/atiqot/vol86/iss1/6
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