Salvage excavations at Tel Moẓa
Subtitle: the Bronze and Iron Age settlements and later occupations
By: Zvi Greenhut and Alon de Groot ; with contributions by Eldad Barzilay [and others]
Contributors: De-Groot, Alon; Barzilay, Eldad
Series: IAA reports -- no. 39; IAA reports -- no. 39.
Publisher: Israel Antiquities Authority
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Jerusalem
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9789654062237
Subjects: Antiquities; Collection and preservation; Excavations (Archaeology); Salvage archaeology; Bronze age; Iron age
Notes: "The salvage excavations at Tel Moẓa ... were conducted over the course of three seasons in advance of the relocation of the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv Highway No. 1 ..."--P. vi.

"Tel Moẓa is located in the Judean Hills c. 5 km. west of Jerusalem ... on the southern slope of the spur where the modern town of Mevasseret Ziyyon (Mevasseret Yerushalayim) stands today ..."--P. [2].

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The geomorphological and geological setting / Eldad Barzilay; title: The excavations : stratigraphy and architecture / Zvi Greenhut; title: The pottery / Zvi Greenhut and Alon de Groot; title: Volume estimation of four Iron Age holemouth jars / Elena Zapassky; title: The Iron Age clay figurines and a possible scale weight / Marie Petersson-Solimany and Raz Kletter; title: Glyptics, impressed and incised sherds, and engraved inscriptions / Baruch Brandl, Zvi Greenhut, and Daniel Vainstub; title: A conoid stamp seal / Baruch Brandl; title: A scaraboid stamp seal / Zvi Greenhut; title: Impressed and incised sherds / Zvi Greenhut; title: Engraved inscriptions / Daniel Vainstub; title: The Egyptian-blue scepter head / Zvi Greenhut; title: Analysis of a blue sample from the scepter head / Irina Segal; title: The loom weights / Orit Shamir; title: Some technical aspects / Elisheva Kamaiski; title: The groundstone assemblage / Anna Eirikh-Rose; title: The small finds / Zvi Greenhut; title: The archaeozoological remains / Moshe Sade; title: Radiocarbon dating / Elisabetta Boaretto; title: Tel Moẓa in context / Zvi Greenhut and Alan De Groot.