PEQ is the peer-reviewed journal of the PEF
PEQ was established in 1865 as the first scholarly society dedicated to the scientific study of what was then generally known as the Holy Land. In 1869, the Fund through its Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement aimed to illuminate the Bible for its readers with scholarly information about the land of the Bible. PEQ is the Statement’s successor and has greatly widened its original scope.
Despite its title, PEQ is concerned not just with Palestine/the land of Israel, but with the wider region of the Levant – its history, archaeology (including biblical aspects), art, languages, natural and earth ethnology, geography and natural and earth sciences. Its contents include reports of archaeological work (especially that supported by the PEF), studies of pottery and other artefacts, examination and interpretation of archaeological sites, publications and studies of inscriptions, ancient texts, archival material relating to the exploration of the Levant, and reviews of books.
Accessing PEQ
Presently four issues of PEQ are published each year. The journal is sent to all subscribing PEF members and institutions. The print journal can be found in many specialist and University libraries or can be consulted by our members within the PEF’s library in Greenwich.
The full text of PEQ is available online to PEF members and institutional subscribers via the Taylor and Francis online platform at www.tandfonline.com/ypeq
PEF members will need to go through a brief account registration and activation process. Current PEF members will receive details on how to register direct from Taylor & Francis.
Access to the online version is also available to current subscribers or on a pay-per view basis to non-subscribers.
PEQ back issues
Many of the issues of the Palestine Exploration Quarterly are now out of print. Four issues per year were published from 1869 to 1941. From 1942 onwards there have been two issues per year. Original issues, paper bound are currently available.
All issues: Years 1878-1879, 1888-90, 1892, 1897-1900, 1902, 1905, 1909-13, 1933, 1940-42, 1965-2005.
Incomplete: 1875-77, 1880-82, 1884-1885, 1887, 1891, 1901, 1907, 1914-15, 1931-32, 1936, 1938-39, 1961, 1964
Price: £10 per issue, £20 per year.
All out of print issues are available as pdfs – prices as above. Indices are available for £6 for the years 1869-1892, 1893-1910, 1911-1963.
Enquiries and orders should be directed to the Fund’s office, not to Taylor & Francis.
PEQ: Instructions for Authors
Contributors to the PEQ are advised to read this Instructions for Authors section. This section also includes instructions for authors and publishers to send books for the Reviews section of PEQ. For queries, please contact the Editor, Dr. J. Bjørnar Storfjell at editor@pef.org.uk
PEQ LATEST EDITION
September 2021
PEQ: Volume 153, Number 3
Front cover: PEF-P-2114: The spring of Robinson’s Arch at the south east end of the enclosure wall of the Temple Mount – Haram al Sharif, as it appeared at ground level in 1875. Photo by Frank Mason Good, 1875.
CONTENTS
Editorial
171 Hidden in plain sight
J. Bjørnar Storfjell
Articles
173 The Murder of James Leslie Starkey near Lachish. A different view from a Colonial
Office file
Josef Mario Briffa SJ
191 Frankish Viticulture, Wine Presses, and wine production in the Levant: New Evidence
from Castellum Regis (Mi ilya¯)
Rabei G. Khamisy
222 Archival notes on Robinson’s Arch and the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif in Jerusalem
Shimon Gibson
244 On the Archaeology of 10th Century BCE Israel and the Idea of the ‘State’
Zachary Thomas
Book Review
258 K. Shillington, Charles Warren: Royal Engineer in the Age of Empire
R L Chapman
260 Acknowledgements
PEQ PREVIOUS EDITIONS
JUNE 2021
PEQ: Volume 153, Number 2
Front cover: PEF-P-1152: General view of spring and ravine at Ayun Musa or Ain Nebbeh (Nebo), Jordan. Photograph by Sergeant Henry Phillips R.E., 1867.
CONTENTS
Editorial
81 To Flip or not to Flip
J. Bjørnar Storfjell
Articles
83 Iron Age Nebo: Preliminary investigations at Khirbat al-Mukhayyat and Rujm al-Mukhayyat,
Jordan
Andrew Danielson and Debra Foran
113 Gorer Tower and the Biblical Edom Road
Eli Cohen-Sasson, Oz. Varoner, Eyal. Frieman and Conn. Herriott
129 A Note on Olive Oil Production in Iron Age Philistia: Pressing the consensus
Aren M. Maeir, Eric L. Welch and Maria Eniukhina
145 Insufficient evidence for metal butchering marks at Tell el-Hesi during the Early Bronze Age:
Critique of the analysis of microscopic grooves in ‘Cultural Modification Analyses on Faunal
Remains in Relation to Space Use and Direct Provisioning from Field VI EBIIIA Tell el-Hesi’ by
Kara Larson, James W. Hardin, and Sara Cody
Haskel J. Greenfield
Report
156 On the Mediaeval and Ottoman Syro-Jordanian Hajj Roads to Mecca: The Pilgrim Camps in
their Landscapes: 2015 Report
Claudine Dauphin
Book Reviews
160 Győző Vörös, Machaerus I: History, Archaeology and Architecture of the Fortified Herodian Royal
Palace and City Overlooking the Dead Sea in Transjordan. Final Report of the Excavations and
Surveys 1807–2012
Győző Vörös, Machaerus II: The Hungarian Archaeological Mission in the Light of the American-
Baptist and Italian-Franciscan Excavations and Surveys: Final Report 1968–2014
Győző Vörös, Machaerus III: The Golden Jubilee of the Archaeological Excavations. Final Report
on the Herodian Citadel (1968–2018)
Joan E. Taylor
167 Haim Goren, ‘The loss of a minute is just so much loss of life’: Edward Robinson and Eli Smith in
the Holy Land
J. R. Bartlett
March 2021
PEQ: Volume 153, Number 1
Front cover: PEF-P-362: The synagogue at Meron – Khirbet Shema – in the Galilee, looking North. Photo by Sgt. Henry Phillips R.E., 1866.
CONTENTS
Guest Editorial
1 A response to ‘On delays in the publication of excavation reports’ by P.J. Parr
(PEQ 152.3, 181–83)
Aren M. Maeir
Articles
5 Via Nova Traiana between Petra and al-Khirbet al-Samra in Arabia Petraea
Fawzi Abudanah, Mansour A. Shqiarat, Adeeb al-Salameen and Mohammed B. Tarawneh
24 Tel Rosh: The forgotten Rehob in the Upper Galilee
Hayah Katz and Yigal Levin
42 ‘Estates’ or ‘forts’ in Persian period Yehud?
Raz Kletter and Jason M. Silverman
62 Eusebios’ aedicula tombstone from Hippos
Michael Eisenberg and Gregor Staab
Book Reviews
70 A. Dodson, Rameses III King of Egypt: His Life and Afterlife
A. Dodson, Afterglow of Empire: Egypt from the Fall of the New Kingdom to the Saite
Renaissance
Peter James
75 Raouf Abu Jaber, Al-Fahum and the al-Fahum Registry: A study of Nazareth
Sarah Irving
76 N. Cooke (ed.), Journeys erased by time: the rediscovered footprints of travellers in Egypt and the
Near East
Luciana Carvalho
DECember 2020
PEQ: Volume 152, Number 4
Front cover: PEF-P-82: Excavators working on the East Face of Tell el Hesi, towards the North West. Photo by Frederick Jones Bliss, 1891-93.
CONTENTS
281 Editorial
Tell el-Hesi: The Joint Expedition
Jeffrey A. Blakely and J. Bjørnar Storfjell
Articles
283 The Economic Base of Early Bronze Age Hesi
Lawrence E. Toombs, Roger W. Anderson and Jeffrey A. Blakely
304 The Early Bronze Age of Tell el-Hesi and its environs: From Petrie’s initial discovery to
today’s understanding
Geoffrey E. Ludvik and Jeffrey A. Blakely
332 Identification of an EB IIIA Incised Bone Tube Workshop at Tell el-Hesi, Israel
Geoffrey Ludvik and Kara Larson
365 Cultural Modification Analyses on Faunal Remains in Relation to Space Use and Direct
Provisioning from Field VI EBIIIA Tell el-Hesi
Kara Larson, James W. Hardin and Sara Cody
Book Review
389 O. Keel, 700 Skarabäen und Verwandtes aus Palästina/Israel
Pieter Gert Van der Veen
September 2020
PEQ: Volume 152, Number 3
Front cover: Adapted from PEF-M-WS-170: Field tracing for the Survey of Western
Palestine, Sheet 1, Trace 3: “Marakah Camp. 30 sq. miles Signed: Lt. H.H.
Kitchener R.E. 21.6 (June). 1877”.
CONTENTS
181 Editorial
On delays in the publication of excavation reports
Peter J. Parr
184 Notes and News
2020 Routledge Philip R. Davies Early Career Researcher Publication Award
Articles
186 The historical geography of 1 Kings 9:11–14
Kyle H. Keimer
207 A Late Hellenistic–Early Roman Fortress at Khirbat Mudayna as-Saliya,
Central Jordan
Chang-Ho Ji
234 Six milestone stations and new inscriptions discovered in the Negev along
the Petra-Gaza Incense Route
Chaim Ben David and Benjamin Isaac
248 Folded wheel-made oil lamps, standing pit burial caves and Judaean ethnic
identity in the Hasmonean period
Omri Y. Abadi and Eyal Regev
Book Reviews
273 Walter Crist, Anne-Elizabeth Dunn-Vaturi and Alex de Voogt, Ancient Egyptians
at play: board games across borders
Stuart Tyson Smith
274 B. A. Saidel and M. Haiman (eds), Excavations in the Western Negev Highlands: results
of the Negev Emergency Survey 1978–89
Steven A. Rosen
277 Ron E. Tappy, The archaeology of the Ostraca House at Israelite Samaria: epigraphic
discoveries in complicated contexts
Cat Quine
Acknowledgements
279 Books Received
June 2020
PEQ: Volume 152, Number 2
Front cover: PEF-P-GAR(G)-124 A view of central Amman looking southeast from the
slopes of the citadel. John Garstang, 1920.
CONTENTS
Editorial
79 Epidemics
J. Bjørnar Storfjell
Obituary
80 Judith McKenzie 1957–2019
Alison McQuitty
Articles
82 Iron age chronology and biblical history rejoinders: The late bronze/iron
age transition, Tel ʿEton and Lachish
Israel Finkelstein
94 The Iron Age lower settlement at Kabri revisited
Meir Edrey, Eric H. Cline, Roey Nickelsberg and Assaf Yasur-Landau
121 Hazor rulership and ritual manipulation
Matthew Susnow, Shlomit Bechar and Assaf Yasur-Landau
147 The funding of the PEF in its early years, associated issues and responses
David M. Jacobson
170 Roman sarcophagi at the lower terrace of Amman Citadel
Taher Al-Gonmeen and Hashem Khries
Book Reviews
176 J.R. Bartlett, Burchard of Mount Sion, OP Descriptio Terrae Sanctae
(Oxford Medieval Texts)
Charlotte Gauthier
177 Eric H. Cline, Digging up Armageddon: the search for the lost city of Solomon
C. A. Strine
Acknowledgements
180 Books Received
MARCH 2020
PEQ: Volume 152, Number 1
Cover Image: PEF-P-2296: General view of Kerak Castle in Moab.
Photo by Charles A. Hornstein, 1895.
CONTENTS
Editorial
1 Winter 2020
C. A. Strine
Articles
3 Greek Christian epitaphs from Charakmoba and the Land of Moab
Julien Aliquot and Younis Shdaifat
27 The appearance and disappearance of Birket El-Kamar, Jaffa, Israel
Elie Haddad, Haim Goren, Michal Artzy and Dorit Sivan
44 Boring philology: The meaning of zdh in the Siloam inscription
Raanan Eichler
53 Preference for periphery? Cultural interchange and trade routes along the boundaries of late Iron Age Moab
Annlee Elizabeth Dolan and Steven John Edwards
Notes and News
73 2019 Routledge Philip R. Davies early career researcher publication award
Book Reviews
74 F. Cobbing and D. Jacobson, Distant views of the Holy Land
Chloë Ward
76 Trevor Bryce, Babylonia: a very short introduction
John MacDermot
78 Acknowledgements
September - December 2019
PEQ: Volume 151, Number 3&4
Cover Image: PEF-P-GAR-Huleh 1926. A view of the Huleh Basin taken from Hazor.
John Garstang, 1926.
CONTENTS
Editorial
167 The PEF and the ethics of studying the past
Michael Press
Obituaries
169 Terence Croft Mitchell 1929–2019
Avantika Clark
170 Dr. Andrea Zerbini, 1984–2019
Chiara Fiaccavento
Notes From The Field
172 Antalya-Kumluca Bronze Age Shipwreck 2019 studies—first analyses
Hakan Öniz
Articles
184 Changing allegiances in disputed borderlands: Dan’s political status
on the eve of the Aramaean invasion
Yifat Thareani
202 Reconsidering the Ancient name of Nebi Samwil
Nadav Na’aman
218 The K8 House: A new domestic space from the Iron Age II at Tell Halif, Israel
Latif Oksuz, James W. Hardin and Jared Wilson
PEQ Grant Reports
245 Documentation of the British Museum’s Palestine Textile Collections
March–July 2018
Omar Joseph Nasser-Khoury
247 Eastern Badia Archaeological Project Report to Palestine Exploration Quarterly
Yorke M. Rowan
252 The Islamic Baydha Project, Baydha (Petra Region), season 2018
Micaela Sinibaldi
Minutes
256 Minutes of the annual general meeting for the Palestine Exploration
Fund, 6 JUNE 2019
Casey Strine
Book Reviews
266 B. Tabbah, A map and a lens: Jordan
Stephen D. Sutton
268 L. Kemal, Imperial perceptions of Palestine: British influence and power
in late Ottoman times
Sarah Irving
270 J. L. Kelly, The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in text and archaeology
John MacDermot
271 Z. Farber and J. Wright (eds), Archaeology and history of eighth-century Judah
C. A. Strine
274 Acknowledgements
275 Lecture Details
June 2019
PEQ: Volume 151, Number 2
Cover Image: PEF-DA-MACK-150: Painted Philistine Vase from the Central City Area of Beth Shemesh, side view. Original drawing by Francis G. Newton, 1912, text by Duncan Mackenzie.
CONTENTS
103 Editorial
C. A. Strine
Articles
105 ‘The Inhabitants of Philistia’: On the identity of the Iron I settlers in periphery of the Philistine heartland
Avraham Faust
134 A short history of Mulabbis (Petah Tikva, Israel)
Roy Marom
146 The murder of James Leslie Starkey: Addendum to the paper of Yosef Garfinkel
David Ussishkin
Book Reviews
155 S. Z. Aster and A. Faust (eds), The southern Levant under Assyrian domination
Karen Radner and Poppy Tushingham
158 D. Ussishkin, Biblical Lachish: A tale of construction, destruction, excavation and restoration
John MacDermot
160 John Starr, Classifying the Aramaic texts from Qumran: A statistical analysis of linguistic features
A. G. Daniel
164 Acknowledgements
165 Lecture Card
March 2019
PEQ: Volume 151, Number 1
Cover Image: PEF-P-2630. View of Solomon’s Pools, Photochrom Co. Zurich, 1880–1900.
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL
1 In praise of learned societies and their journals
Linda Hulin
FIELD REPORT
3 A new Bronze Age shipwreck along with ingots in the west of Antalya – preliminary results
Hakan Öniz
ARTICLES
15 Survey and excavations at Solomon’s Pools, Palestine: 2018 preliminary report
Matthew J. Adams, Mark Letteney and Max T. B. Peers
36 A zoomorphic sickle terminal from the Natufian site of Wadi Hammeh 27 in Jordan
Rosie Robertson, Phillip C. Edwards and Rosemary Coates
50 Petra, taxes and trade reconsidered in the light of the Petra Church archive
Mohammed Al-Nasarat
69 Two More Nabataean Inscriptions from the Syro-Jordanian Harrah desert
Ali Al-Manaser and Jérôme Norris
MINUTES
87 Minutes of the annual general meeting for the Palestine Exploration Fund, 7 June 2018
BOOK REVIEW
99 Alan V. Murray, The Franks in Outremer: studies in the Latin principalities of Palestine and Syria, 1099–1187
Stephen Donnachie
102 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
December 2018
PEQ: Volume 150, Number 4
Cover Photo: The 1926 Excavations at Megiddo. Photo by John Garstang from the PEF collections. PEF-P-GAR-Megiddo 1926.
CONTENTS
Editorial
261 C. A. Strine
Notes from the Field
263 New Research and Findings from Tell Sufan
Loay Abu Al Saud and Amer Qobbaj
Articles
265 The First Melchizedek Bottle? Notes on the Jerusalem Iron IIA Pithos Inscription
Raz Kletter
272 Tell el-Hesi: A Type Site for reevaluating so-called ‘Egptian Governors’ Redidencies’ of the South
Jeffrey A. Blakely
297 New Light on Schumacher’s Sudliches Burgtor at Megiddo
Robert S. Homsher and Israel Finkelstein
310 The Identification of the Medieval Church of St. Sabas in Jerusalem in the Light of new Documentary Evidence
Denys Pringle
Report
321 A Preliminary Research Trip: British Women In Mandate Palestine (PEF Report)
Charlotte Kelsted
Book Reviews
323 A. K. Marshak, The Many Faces of Herod the Great
David M. Jacobson
326 K. A. Ristau, Reconstructing Jerusalem: Persian-Period Prophetic Perspectives
Jason M. Silverman
328 S. Collins, C. Kobs and M. Luddenit (eds), Teh Tall al-Hammam Excavations, Vol. 1: An Introduction to Tall Al-Hammam
Owen Chesnut
330 R. Mairs, From Khartoum to Jerusalem: The Dragoman Solomon Negima and his Clients (1885 – 1933)
Sarah Irving
Acknowledgements
333
Lecture Card
334
September 2018
PEQ: Volume 150, Number 3
Cover photo: PEF-P-1680: Tancrede R. Dumas’ photograph of Umm al Jimaal taken in 1875 during the American Palestine Exploration Society’s survey of Eastern Palestine. It is Dumas’ number 48 in the series.
CONTENTS
181 Editorial
From trowel to tourist
Linda Hulin
Articles
183 Towards a Definition of the pre-Classical Phoenician Temple
Meir Edrey
205 Nomads of the H?arrah at Sea: A Safaitic inscription mentioning seafaring accompanied by a rock drawing of a boat from the Jordanian Badiyah
Zeyad Al-Salameen, Younis al-Shdaifat and Rafe Harahsheh
213 An Arab Chariot Monument at Umm al-Jimal
Thomas M. Weber-Karyotakis and Muaffaq Hazza S. al-Khdair
Notes from the field
235 Early Bronze Age Levantine Metal Weapons from the Collection of the Palestine Exploration Fund
Daria Montanari
Book Reviews
252 M. Goodman and Alexander P., Rabbinic texts and the history of late-Roman Palestine (Proceedings of the British Academy 165)
Claudine Dauphin
257 Marshak, A.K., The Many Faces of Herod the Great
David M. Jacobson
261 Ristau, K.A., Reconstructing Jerusalem: Persian-Period Prophetic Perspectives
Jason M. Silverman
263 Collins, S., Kobs. C., and Luddenit, M., The Tall Al-Hammam Excavations, Vol. 1:
An Introduction to Tall al-Hammam
Owen Chesnut
265 Mairs, R., From Khartoum to Jerusalem: the Dragoman Solomon Negima and his Clients (1885–1933)
Sarah Irving
268 Acknowledgements
June 2018
PEQ: Volume 150, Number 2
Cover Photo: Chambardia Shells from Jericho. Courtesy of L. Nigro.
CONTENTS
Editorial
87 Philip R. Davies, Chairman of the PEF, 2015-1018
John R. Bartlett
89 Notes and news
Articles
90 A Russian Before and After the Revolution: P. P. Efimenko a Pioneer of Levantine Prehistoric
Research
Ofer Marder, Isaac Gilead, Zinovi Matskevich, Ianir Milevski, Dmitry Yegorov and Alla Nagorsky
110 A hoard of Nilotic nacreous shells from Egypt to Jericho (Early Bronze II, 3000-2800 BC): Their
finding, content and historical archaeological implications
Lorenzo Nigro, Daria Montanari, Francesco Mura, Jehad Yasine and Teresa Rinaldi
126 A Note on Iron Age Figural Artefacts from Tell Dothan
Adam E. Miglio and Rebekah Dutton
143 Report on the pottery from Tell Sufan in Nablus, Palestine
Loay Abu Alsaud and Amer Qobbaj
Book Reviews
161 M., Mouton and S. G., Schmid, Men on the rocks: the formation of Nabataean Petra
Gregory A. Crawford
163 I. Hjelm and T. L. Thompson, History, archaeology and the Bible forty years after “historicity”
(Changing perspectives, 6)
Philip R. Davies
164 Davies, P.R., The History of Ancient Israel: A Guide for the Perplexed
Diana Edelman
166 Rolf Hachmann, Kamid el-Loz 20: Die Keilschriftbriefe und der Horizont von El-Amarna
(Saarbrücker Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 87)
Marlies Heinz
168 Y. Farhi, Khirbet Qeiyafa Vol. 5, excavation report 2007–2013. The numismatic finds: coins and
related objects
David M. Jacobson
171 Mahieu, B., Between Rome and Jerusalem. Herod the Great and His Sons in Their Struggle for
Recognition: A Chronological Investigation of the Period 40 BC–39 AD, with a Time Setting of
New Testament Events
Henry Curtis Pelgrift
173 L. Nigro Rome, Reading catastrophes. Proceedings of the International Conference “Reading catastrophes: Methodological Approaches and Historical Interpretation. Earthquakes, Floods, Famines, Epidemics between Egypt and Palestine—3rd-1st Millennium BC”, held in Rome, 3rd-4th December 2012 (Rome “La Sapienza” Studies on the Archaeology of Palestine and Transjordan, 11)
Robert Porter
176 Kennedy, D., Settlement and Soldiers in the Roman Near East
Alexandra Ratzlaff
179 Acknowledgements
March 2018
PEQ: Volume 150, Number 1
Cover Image: Tell el ‘Ajjul, photo by Olga Tufnell. PEF-P-TUF-12
CONTENTS
1 Editorial
Looking to the future
Linda Hulin
3 Notes and news
Articles
4 Tell el-‘Ajjul palaces I and II: Context and function
Holly A. Winter
33 Forts or agricultural estates? Persian period settlement in the territories of the former kingdom of Judah
Avraham Faust
59 Nabataean echoes in al-Harrah: New evidence in light of recent field work
Zeyad al-Salameen, Younis al-Shdaifat and Rafe Harahsheh
Book Reviews
79 Fantalkin, A. and Tal, O., Tell Qudadi: An Iron Age IIB fortress on the central Mediterranean coast of Israel
Frederick Mario Fales
84 Hoffmeier, J.K., Excavations in North Sinai: Tell el-Borg I
Manfred Bietak
86 Acknowledgements
