TY - JOUR
T1 - Roman and Byzantine Burials at Yavneh-Yam
T2 - New Insights into the Site’s Settlement History
AU - Piasetzky-David, Michal
AU - Fischer, Moshe
AU - Taxel, Itamar
AU - Jackson-Tal, Ruth E.
AU - Tal, Oren
AU - Efraimov, Iness
AU - May, Hila
AU - Ziffer, Irit
AU - Golyźniak, Paweł
PY - 2020/1/1
Y1 - 2020/1/1
N2 - This paper discusses Roman and Byzantine tombs and burial caves at Yavneh-Yam (the harbor site of ancient Iamnia) excavated in the 1960s and 1980s. It focuses on the finds recovered during these excavations as a means to enhance our knowledge on the site’s social and religious history vis-à-vis the inhabited site’s recent excavations and studies. More specifically, the discussed funerary remains reflect the changes in the site’s social composition between Early Roman to Byzantine times. While in the Early Roman period Yavneh-Yam was probably predominantly Jewish, in Late Roman and mainly Byzantine times it was developed into a large and thriving harbor town whose mixed population was composed of polytheists, Jews, Samaritans and Christians.
AB - This paper discusses Roman and Byzantine tombs and burial caves at Yavneh-Yam (the harbor site of ancient Iamnia) excavated in the 1960s and 1980s. It focuses on the finds recovered during these excavations as a means to enhance our knowledge on the site’s social and religious history vis-à-vis the inhabited site’s recent excavations and studies. More specifically, the discussed funerary remains reflect the changes in the site’s social composition between Early Roman to Byzantine times. While in the Early Roman period Yavneh-Yam was probably predominantly Jewish, in Late Roman and mainly Byzantine times it was developed into a large and thriving harbor town whose mixed population was composed of polytheists, Jews, Samaritans and Christians.
KW - Archaeology, Syro-Palestinian
KW - Tombs
KW - Excavations (Archaeology)
KW - Ossuaries
KW - Byzantine antiquities
KW - Roman antiquities
KW - Drinking vessels
KW - Coins, Ancient
KW - Palestine -- Antiquities -- Yavneh-Yam
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VL - 70
SP - 469
EP - 577
JO - Liber annuus
JF - Liber annuus
SN - 0081-8933
ER -