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Abstract

The excavations at Mazor yielded architectural remains from the Byzantine and late Ottoman–British Mandate periods, and poor remains from the Early Islamic and Mamluk–early Ottoman periods; the Hellenistic and Early Roman periods are represented by small finds only. Three buildings were exposed, typical of the Byzantine period in the region (mid-fifth–early sixth centuries CE), which belonged to either a private estate or an agricultural monastery. The settlement probably formed part of the eastern hinterland of the urban center at Lod (Lydda/Diospolis). The next substantial phase at the site began in the Ottoman period (eighteenth century CE), with the establishment of the village of al-Muzayri‘ah over the earlier remains. The village continued to exist until the end of the days of the British Mandate.

Keywords

Samaria Hills, late Hellenistic, Hasmonean, Early Roman period, ceramics, numismatics, Christian population, agriculture

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