The archaeology of the Ostraca House at Israelite Samaria
Subtitle: epigraphic discoveries in complicated contexts
By: by Ron E. Tappy
Series: The annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research -- volume 70
Publisher: American Society of Overseas Research
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780897570954
Subjects: Inscriptions; Antiquities; Ostraka
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction and background; title: Horizontal axis : the building's original footprint and surrounding area; title: Vertical axis : the building's complex depositional history; title: Ceramic considerations; title: The Samaria ostraca and modern scholarship; title: Back to the backstory : the characters and concerns behind the Harvard expedition to Samaria; title: Appendix A: Ostraca : provenance data and vessel descriptions; title: Appendix B: Ostraca : sequence of discovery; title: Appendix C: Non-epigraphic pottery with provenance data matching those of the ostraca; title: Appendix D: D.G. Lyon's report to the president of Harvard University for the academic year 1898-1899, showing the financial generosity of Jakob Heinrich Schiff; title: Appendix E: Reisner's field drawings of selected ostraca.