A History of Pottery and Potters in Ancient Jerusalem - Excavations by K.M. Kenyon in Jerusalem 1961-1967 - H. J. Franken †
The Pottery from Square A XVIII, 6th–5th Centuries BCE
A History of Pottery and Potters in Ancient Jerusalem - Excavations by K.M. Kenyon in Jerusalem 1961-1967 - H. J. Franken †
H. J. Franken † [+]
H. J. Franken, who died in 2005, was Emeritus Professor at the State University Leiden, The Netherlands, and the author of Excavations at Tell Deir 'Alla: The Late Bronze Sanctuary (Louvain, 1992) and of numerous articles on Near Eastern archaeology.
Description
Chapters 7–10 present pottery from the Neo-Babylonian, Persian, Hellenistic and Early Roman times is described. All this pottery was found in the ancient dumps overlying the Iron Age ruins on the eastern slope of the Ophel. This chapter is concerned with the study of Square A XVIII, 6th–5th Centuries BCE.