Publisher's Synopsis
Text in English and Hebrew Contents: The Finds from Cave 39C West of Horbat Barfiliya, Modi'in ( Ianir Milevski and Hamoudi Khalaily ) Finds from the Hellenistic ' Favissa ' at 'Akko-Ptolemais ( Donald T. Ariel and Natalie Messika ) Two Pottery Assemblages from Khirbat el-Ni'ana ( Anna de Vincenz and Ofer Sion ) The Clay Oil Lamps from Khirbat el-Ni'ana ( Varda Sussman ) Local Glass Production in the Late Roman-Early Byzantine Periods in Light of the Glass Finds from Khirbat el-Ni'ana ( Yael Gorin-Rosen and Natalya Katsnelson ) The Coins from Khirbat el-Ni'ana ( Ariel Berman ) An Islamic Amulet from Khirbat el-Ni'ana ( Nitzan Amitai-Preiss ) Summaries of the Hebrew Section The Agricultural Hinterland West of Horbat Barfiliya, Modi'in ( Elena Kogan-Zehavi and Yehiel Zelinger, with contributions by Gabriela Bijovsky and Deborah A. Sklar-Parnas ) The Excavations at Khirbat el-Ni'ana ( Ofer Sion ) Building Remains and an Installation from the Byzantine and Early Islamic Periods at Nahal Daliya (Umm Tut) ( Rina Avner ) The Coins from Nahal Daliya (Umm Tut) ( Helena Sokolov ) Remains of an Early Islamic Settlement and a Hellenistic (Roman?) Tomb at Khirbat Deiran, Rehovot ( Elena Kogan-Zehavi, with contributions by Robert Kool, Helena Sokolov and Orit Shamir ) The Pottery from Stratum 2 at Khirbat Deiran, Rehovot ( Miriam Avissar ).