Salvage Excavations at Tel Moza: The Bronze and Iron Age Settlements and Later Occupations

Authors

Zvi Greenhut
Alon De Groot

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Description

The IAA excavations at Tel Moẓa, just outside Jerusalem, were initiated due to the relocation of the Jerusalem–Tel Aviv Highway, which stood to destroy all the antiquities along the new route. During three excavation seasons (1993, 2002–2003), 16 strata were defined, spanning the Pre-Pottery Neolithic period to the Ottoman period (the extensive Prehistoric finds are published elsewhere). This volume describes the finds from the Early Bronze Age onward, describing the pottery, glyptics and inscriptions, groundstone assemblages and other small finds. An outstanding discovery was a large silo complex of Iron IIB, leading the excavators to the interpretation that during this period, the site of Moẓa was a royal administrative center containing a large grain-storage facility to supply the capital Jerusalem.

EISBN

9789654065771

Publication Date

1-1-2009

Publisher

Israel Antiquities Authority

City

Jerusalem

Keywords

Administrative site, Iron Age, Judean Hills, silo site, Hasmonean

Disciplines

Historic Preservation and Conservation | History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology | Life Sciences | Religion | Social and Behavioral Sciences

Recommended Citation

Greenhut, Zvi and De Groot, Alon, "Salvage Excavations at Tel Moza: The Bronze and Iron Age Settlements and Later Occupations" (2009). IAA Reports—Monograph Series of the Israel Antiquities Authority. 38.
https://publications.iaa.org.il/iaareports/38