Biblical Archaeology Review

Yohanan Aharoni, The Archaeology of the Land of Israel (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1982).

I thank Dr. Lawrence E. Stager for my research associate position at the Harvard Semitic Museum. The funding to support this research came from Richard J. Scheuer, Eugene M. Grant, Leon Levy, Shelby White and P. E. MacAlister. Thanks to Dr. Lawrence T. Geraty, the president of La Sierra University in Riverside, California, this university has provided the institutional base for these donations.

Excavations at the site of ‘En Hatzeva in the Negev, Israel, were conducted on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA). We wish to thank Amir Drori, General Director of the IAA, for his continuing support of the excavations since 1989. Through 1992, work there was directed by Rudolph Cohen.

See Kathleen M. Kenyon, Digging Up Jerusalem (New York: Praeger, 1974), pp. 137–144, plates 56–61; and Jerusalem: Excavating 3,000 Years of History (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967), p. 101, figs. 8–10. Kenyon dates the pit a little earlier (to the reign of Hezekiah) and mentions that the figurines may have been broken intentionally. None of them, however, could be restored completely. Our vessels, on the other hand, were completely restored and are of a completely different type.

We are grateful to Michal Ben-Gal, Head Pottery Restorer at the Israel Antiquities Authority, whose skill, dedication and patience enabled the complete restoration of our assemblage.

Alois Musil, Arabia Petraea II. Edom (Vienna: k.u.k. Hof- und Universitäts-Buchhändler, 1907), pp. 207–208, figs. 144–145.