During Spring 2013, the MOTA-DACH Office of Bethlehem was informed of the retrieval of a tomb during the construction of an industrial area roughly 2.2 Km south-east of the Basilica of the Nativity on the Hindaza hill slope called Khalet al-Jam’a. Palestinian archaeologists recovered a number of items identifying there a multi-period necropolis. The site was the object of a rescue excavation in the following Spring 2014. Eleven tombs and their fittings were rescued and recovered in the MOTA storerooms. In May 2015, a joint Italian-Palestinian team preliminary surveyed the necropolis and recorded its finds, planning a future systematic exploration. At a provisional exam, KJ necropolis was in use during Intermediate Bronze Age (EB IV), Middle Bronze Age and, successively, through the whole Iron Age.

Khalet al-Jam’a. A Middle Bronze and Iron Age necropolis near Bethlehem (Palestine) / Nigro, Lorenzo; Montanari, Daria; Ghayyada, Mohammed; Yasine, Jehad. - In: VICINO ORIENTE. - ISSN 0393-0300. - STAMPA. - XIX:(2015), pp. 185-218.

Khalet al-Jam’a. A Middle Bronze and Iron Age necropolis near Bethlehem (Palestine)

NIGRO, Lorenzo;MONTANARI, DARIA;
2015

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During Spring 2013, the MOTA-DACH Office of Bethlehem was informed of the retrieval of a tomb during the construction of an industrial area roughly 2.2 Km south-east of the Basilica of the Nativity on the Hindaza hill slope called Khalet al-Jam’a. Palestinian archaeologists recovered a number of items identifying there a multi-period necropolis. The site was the object of a rescue excavation in the following Spring 2014. Eleven tombs and their fittings were rescued and recovered in the MOTA storerooms. In May 2015, a joint Italian-Palestinian team preliminary surveyed the necropolis and recorded its finds, planning a future systematic exploration. At a provisional exam, KJ necropolis was in use during Intermediate Bronze Age (EB IV), Middle Bronze Age and, successively, through the whole Iron Age.
2015
Bethlehem; necropolis; Early Bronze IV; Middle Bronze; Iron Age
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Khalet al-Jam’a. A Middle Bronze and Iron Age necropolis near Bethlehem (Palestine) / Nigro, Lorenzo; Montanari, Daria; Ghayyada, Mohammed; Yasine, Jehad. - In: VICINO ORIENTE. - ISSN 0393-0300. - STAMPA. - XIX:(2015), pp. 185-218.
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