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.
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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. Charlotte Whiting at editor@pef.org.uk
PEQ LATEST EDITION
March 2024
PEQ: Volume 156, Number 1
Front cover: PEF-P20-GAR599: Detail of view of El Kishani, ancient Majuma Gazae, from Gaza. Photo by John Garstang, early 1920s.
CONTENTS
Articles
1 Guest Editorial: Gaza’s Cultural Heritage and Intellectual Life
Felicity Cobbing and Linda Hulin
4 Establishing a Baseline for the Study of Maritime Cultural Heritage
in the Gaza Strip
Georgia M. Andreou, M. Fradley, L. Blue and C. Breen
43 Sounds in the Desert: New Evidence of Ambos in Shivta Churches
Emma Maayan-Fanar and Yotam Tepper
65 The 2011 Season of Excavation at Gadara (Umm Qais) of the Decapolis
Lamia El-Khouri
92 Agency, Kinship and the Case of the Northern Kingdom of Israel
Erin Hall
Acknowledgements
107 Books Received
PEQ PREVIOUS EDITIONS
December 2023
PEQ: Volume 155, Number 4
Front cover: PEF-P-4209: Jabal Ghudian on the western side of the Wadi Araba.
Photo by E. Gordon Hull 1883.
CONTENTS
Articles
275 The End of Arabah Copper Production and the Destruction of Gath:
A Critique and an Alternative Interpretation.
Piotr Bienkowski
289 Tatami: the enigmatic toponym of Western Judah, and use of suffixes in
dating toponyms.
Noam Agmon
316 Invisible Excavators: The Quftis of Megiddo, 1925–1939.
Eric H. Cline
Book Reviews
340 Hoffman, Tracy, ASHKELON 8: THE ISLAMIC AND CRUSADER PERIODS.
Ian W. N. Jones
343 Eric M. Meyers, AN ACCIDENTAL ARCHAEOLOGIST: A PERSONAL MEMOIR.
John MacDermot
345 Kay Prag, RE-EXCAVATING JERUSALEM: ARCHIVAL ARCHAEOLOGY.
Chloe Emmott
Reports
348 Investigating changing socio-economic landscapes from the Early Bronze I–III
in the Levant through Zooarchaeology.
Gwendoline Maurer and Mariana Albuquerque
358 Towards a Chronological Framing of the Two Mosques of Islamic Baydha.
Micaela Sinibaldi
362 Contributions to the Archaeology of Palestine by Overlooked Twentieth-Century
Palestinian Archaeologists, Yusra Al-Ḥaifawiyah, Nasr Dwekat and
Ibrahim Al-Fanni.
Loay Abu Alsaud
Obituary
378 Jonathan Nicholas Tubb, 21st December, 1951 – 25th September, 2023.
Acknowledgements
382 Books Received.
DECEMBER 2023
PEQ: Volume 155, Number 3
Front cover: A watercolour sketch of one of the ‘Moabite Idols’ sold by Moses Wilhelm
Shapira in his Jerusalem shop. Claude R. Conder, May 1873. PEF-PI-221.
June 2023
PEQ: Volume 155, Number 2
Front cover: Guides and Camels at Wadi Deira.
Photo by C. Leonard Woolley, January 1914. PEF-P20-WL-62.
135 The Level V City Wall at Lachish Hoo-Goo Kang, Sang-Yeup Chang and Yosef Garfinkel
146 Tel ‘Afar (Tell al-Akhdar): A Monastic or Estate Church on the Via Maris South of Caesarea Ofra Barkai, Alexandra Ratzlaff and Itamar Taxel
166 ‘Nevermind the Camel!’: The Hogarth Archive and the Wilderness of Zin Adam John Fraser
182 Philip J. Boyes, SCRIPT AND SOCIETY: THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF WRITING PRACTICES IN BRONZE AGE UGARIT Ola Wikander
Notes and News
186 Acknowledgements
March 2023
PEQ: Volume 155, Number 1
Front cover: PEF-P-GAR-1334: View of Tell es-Safi, 1928. Photo by John Garstang.
24 The City Walls of Lachish: Response to Yosef Garfinkel, Michael Hasel, Martin Klingbeil and Their Colleagues. David Ussishkin
December 2022
PEQ: Volume 154, Number 4
Front cover: Portrait of John Bartlett by Olivia Bartlett. Oil on Canvas.
September 2022
PEQ: Volume 154, Number 3
Front cover: The Synagogue at Capernaum. Photo by J. Bjornar Storfjell, September 1993.
JUne 2022
PEQ: Volume 154, Number 2
Front cover: PEF-DA-Granqvist Archive: Arrangement of wildflowers and grasses from Artas, Palestine. Hilma Granqvist, 1930s
January 2022
PEQ: Volume 154, Number 1
Front cover: The Phoenician Temple of Ma’abed at Amrit, Syria. Photo Felicity Cobbing.
CONTENTS
Notes and News
1 Loay Abu Al-Saud
Articles
2 Liminality and Canaanite Cultic Spaces: Temple Entrances, Status Transformations
and Ritual in Threshold Contexts
Matthew Susnow
22 Something borrowed, something new? Semitic loanwords and transcriptions
in the Greek epigraphy of Palestine and Arabia
Michael Zellmann-Rohrer
35 A Group of Pilaster Capitals from Shivta: Marble Import in the Byzantine Negev
Moshe Fischer and Yotam Tepper
52 Tel Nami, Cyprus, and Egypt: Radiocarbon Dates and Early Middle Bronze Age
Chronology
Felix H flmayer
Book Reviews
70 Sabine A. Laemmel, Kom Tuman II: Late Period to Graeco-Roman Pottery,
Volumes I and II
Julia Budka
72 D. Gurevich and A. Kidron (eds), Exploring the Holy Land: 150 years of the Palestine
Exploration Fund
Sarah Irving
75 Lee Young, An Artist in Abydos: The Life and Letters of Myrtle Broome
John MacDermot
76 Brad Crowell, Edom at the Edge of Empire: A Social and Political History
Piotr Bienkowski
December 2021
PEQ: Volume 153, Number 4
Front cover: PEF-P-WL-7: Caravan in norther Sinai – Wadi Arabah, ‘Ain Gharandal. Photo by T. E. Lawrence, 8th February 1914.
CONTENTS
Guest Editorial
261 The Rockefeller Museum
Jonathan N. Tubb
264 Notes and News
Articles
266 ‘I am sorry for troubling you with the bother of replying! But I really want to know’:
An unpublished letter by T. E. Lawrence to Max van Berchem about a Mameluke
inscription from Naqb (Sinai/Negev)
Massimiliano Munzi and Corinne Sandoz
279 The Lion’s Mausoleum of Hippos of the Decapolis
Michael Eisenberg
304 Building 101 at Tel ‘Eton, the Low Chronology, and the Perils of a Bias-Perpetuating
Methodology: A Response and a Proposal for the Study of All the Phases in the History
of Buildings
Avraham Faust and Yair Sapir
Book Reviews
335 M. Peilstocker and S. Wolfram (eds), Life at the Dead Sea: Proceedings of the
International Conference held at the State Museum of Archaeology Chemnitz (smac),
February 21–24, 2018, Chemnitz
Nir Arielli
336 Jodi Magness, Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth
Michael Press
339 Stefan Szepesi, Walking Palestine: 25 Journeys into the West Bank
Stephen Sutto
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
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
