List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Chapter 1 - Introduction and Background
A. The Site: Physical Setting and Early History
B. The Backstory: Early Challenges for the Harvard Expedition
C. The Harvard Expedition: Excavation Strategy, Methods, and
Ensuing Challenges
1. 1908 Fieldwork
2. 1909 Fieldwork
3. 1910 Fieldwork
D. Summary
Chapter 2 - Horizontal Axis: The Ostraca Building's Original
Footprint and Surrounding Area
A. The Ostraca House
1. Wall A: Ahab's "Main Wall"
2. The Ostraca House: Entrance Halls, Storerooms, and Eastern
Corridors (Long-Rooms)
3. Reconstructions
4. Later Additions (?)
B. The Osorkon House
C. Problems North and East of the Ostraca and Osorkon Houses
D. Summary
Chapter 3 - Vertical Axis: The Ostraca Building's Complex
Depositional History
A. Stratigraphic Analysis: Summary of Sections Published by the
Harvard Expedition
B. Stratigraphic Analysis: Discussion of Sections Relevant to the
Ostraca House
1. Principal Longitudinal Section CD
2. Principal Lateral Section GH
3. Subsidiary Lateral Section AB
C. Summary
Chapter 4 - Ceramic Considerations
A. The Harvard Excavations and the Joint Expedition: Collating the
Data
B. Reisner's Presentation of Pottery: A Meager Repertoire
C. The 1910 Ostraca: Spatial Distribution
D. The 1910 Ostraca: Typological Notes
E. The 1910 Ostraca-related Pottery: Typological Notes
F. The 1910 Ostraca and Ostraca-related Pottery: Comparative
Ceramic Analysis
1. Epigraphic Pottery
2. Bowl Types Representing Parallels for Ostraca Pottery Forms
3. Non-epigraphic Pottery from the Same Findspots as the
Ostraca
4. Comments on Some Jar Types Associated with Ostraca Pottery
Forms
G. Summary
Chapter 5 - The Samaria Ostraca and Modern Scholarship
Chapter 6 - Back to the Backstory: The Characters and Concerns
behind the Harvard Expedition to Samaria
Appendix A - Ostraca: Provenance Data and Vessel Descriptions
Appendix B - Ostraca: Sequence of Discovery
Appendix C - Non-epigraphic Pottery with Provenance Data Matching
those of the Ostraca
Appendix D - D. G. Lyon's Report to the President of Harvard
University for the Academic Year 1898-1899, Showing the Financial
Generosity of Jakob Heinrich Schiff
Appendix E - Reisner's Field Drawings of Selected Ostraca
Plates
Bibliography
Indices
Biblical References
Author Index
Subject Index
Robert Jehu Bull was the emeritus director of the Drew University's
Institute for Archaeological Research, later the Joint Expeditions
to Caesarea Maritima, where he excavated from 1971 to 1996,
exposing major parts of the city's street plan, warehouse complex,
a residential quarter, and parts of the hippodrome. Before
excavating at Caesarea, he excavated and led excavations at
Shechem, Balatah, Ai, Pella, Tell er-Ras, and Khirbet Shema'.
Andrew H. Bobeck His book "Techniques for Improving Digital
Photographs" by OutSkirts Press covers in depth the graphics
technique he used to recover the faded colours of the Caesarea
fresco.
Jane DeRose Evans is a Professor of Art History and is affiliated
with the Department of Greek and Latin Classics at Temple
University. She has excavated in Greece, Italy, England, Israel,
and France. Currently, she is the specialist numismatist for the
Archaeological Exploration of Sardis (Harvard and Cornell
universities) and Bir Madkhour (George Washington University).
Robert S. Fritzius has published the Introduction and First Part of
an English translation of Walter Ritz's "Recherches critiques sur
l'Électrodynamique Générale", and served as staff artist for the
excavations at Elusa, Israel. He is a member of the American
Astronomical Society, the Committee on Space Research, and the
Venus Exploration and Analysis Group.
Alexandra L. Ratzlaff is a Fellow at the Albright Institute of
Archaeological Research in Jerusalem and a University Postdoctoral
Fellow in the Department of Maritime Civilizations at the
University of Haifa. She recently completed a two-year Fulbright
Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Haifa. Her research
and publication projects focus on the Roman army, Roman and
Byzantine ceramics, the Late Antique maritime economy and trade
networks of the Mediterranean world.
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