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Abstract

The excavation at Ḥorbat Ḥanut uncovered remains from the Roman to the Ottoman periods, and especially from the Roman, Byzantine, Mamluk and Ottoman periods. These include burial caves, pit graves, caves, olive presses, refuse pits, water cisterns, quarries and other installations typical of the outskirts of a settlement. The site's location on the western fringes of the Samarian Highlands, alongside main roads, provided its inhabitants with economic and settlement advantages, ensuring a mixed economy that included field crops, vineyards, olive groves, pasturing, production of raw glass and glass vessels, and stone quarrying. Despite the site's location in a distinct Samarian region during the Roman–Byzantine periods, only two lamps attributable to this population segment were uncovered, alongside finds suggesting a Jewish settlement. During the Mamluk period, and possibly during the Ottoman period, the caves and burial caves from the Roman–Byzantine periods were reused for industrial purposes, habitation and enclosures.

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