Publisher's Synopsis
The final report on rescue work carried out between 1975 and 1979 on an area of threatened Hellenistic and Roman tombs which lay along the Judean hills to the west of modern Jericho. Illustrated throughout, the volume contains reports on the architecture of the tombs, inscriptions, grave markers, wall paintings and the finds, including wooden coffin remains. Other chapters discuss the significant contribution of this previously unkown cemetery for our understanding of Jewish burial customs, as well as the culture as a whole, during the Second Temple Period.
