Sade Moshe (2 results)

RARE FIRST VOLUME of the final report of the excavations of the Persian and Hellenistic settlements at the site of Apollonia-Arsuf - an ancient city south of Caesarea, Israel. In Hellenistic and Roman Judea the city was called Apollonia (renamed in the late Roman era to Sozusa), and after falling to the Muslim conquest in 640 and fortified against Byzantine attacks, was known as Arsuf (Latinized Arsur). Re-conquered by the kingdom of Jerusalem in 1101, it was a strategically important fortress in the Third Crusade, during which the Battle of Arsuf (1191) was fought nearby. The fortress fell to the Mamluks in 1265 and was destroyed. The site of Arsuf (Tel Arshaf) is now in Herzliya municipality, Israel, and was intensively excavated from 1994 and opened for visitors as Apollonia National Park in 2002. This volume is the first in the series of three (in preparation). Contains many color and b&w plates and figures. 275x225mm. XVI+300 pages. Dark blue cloth Hardcover with gilt front cover and spine. Cover and spine somewhat stained/dirty. Cover upper corners wrinkled/slightly bumped. Spine edges rubbed. Spine bottom edge slightly wrinkled. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare report of excavations of an important cite in Persian, Hellenistic, Roman and medieval periods, is in good condition. The book is in : English.

RARE final report of the excavations of the large fortress of Horvat `Uza, which was originally built in the Iron Age and re-used with modifications in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, and the smaller frontier outpost of Horvat Radum, which was abandoned at the end of the Iron Age. The results of the excavation of part of a newly-discovered Iron Age settlement (no. 24) are also presented. These excavations, which spanned the years 1982-1988 and 1996, were carried out as a joint venture by the Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University and the University of Waco, Texas, under the direction of Itzhaq Beit-Arieh and Bruce C. Cresson. This publication contains the contributions of several specialists in their fields and covers the architecture, stratigraphy, pottery, epigraphic finds, numerous small finds, archaeobotanical and archaeozoological remains, and an historical overview. Contains numerous b&w illustrations. 275x225mm. VI+347 pages. Blue cloth Hardcover with illustrated dust-jacket. Gilt lettering and illustration/symbol on front cover and spine. Jacket edges/corners wrinkled. Jacket spine bottom edge slightly peeling/worn. Spine edges bumped. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare important contribution to the knowledge of the Judahite defense system on its eastern border during the last days of the kingdom in the First Temple Period and the nature of its relationship with Edom, is in good condition. The book is in : English.