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Andrew J. Danielson, Aaron A. Burke, Martin Pleistöcker, Krister Kowalski, Edward Maher. “Persian and Hellenistic Jaffa: Re-Examining Jacob Kaplan’s Excavations in Area A (1970-1974)”

Maria Gabriella Micale
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Andrew J. Danielson, Aaron A. Burke, Martin Pleistöcker, Krister Kowalski, Edward Maher. “Persian and Hellenistic Jaffa: Re-Examining Jacob Kaplan’s Excavations in Area A (1970-1974)”, ANES 54 (2020), p. 189-257.

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1The Authors present and discuss the excavation results of the Jaffa Cultural Heritage Project (hereafter JCHP) (campaigns 2014-2016) together with an examination of the unpublished contexts of area A excavated by Jacob Kaplan between 1970 and 1974. Combining this data with the most recent publications of the Persian-Byzantine period finds from Kaplan’s excavations (1955-1981), the A. try to offer a new archaeological and historical perspective on Jaffa in the centuries of the Achaemenid and Hellenistic control over the region, beginning with the reinterpretation of Kaplan’s so-called Lion Temple area. In particular, the attention of the A. is concentrated on Building M, a relative large structure (early 5th-mid 4th cent. BCE). This structure was initially interpreted by Kaplan as a warehouse for the storage of goods imported through Jaffa’s port due to the presence of imported pottery, but the A. now firmly interpret it as a complex of mostly domestic areas.

2A detailed description of the JCHP phases, from the early Persian to the late Hellenistic occupation, represents the core of the article, providing references to Kaplan’s preliminary publications as well as to the most recent publication of the finds from Jaffa dating to the same period—all supplemented by both archival and new graphic and photographic documentation of the architectural contexts as well as of the finds.

3As Kaplan had already noticed, the A. register an intensification of the building activities in the Lion Temple area already during the transition between the 6th and 5th centuries, culminating in the construction of building M. The A. certainly try to emphasize the long life of the building through both Persian and Hellenistic periods. However, the important role that the building must have had throughout its life despite the change of governance over the region (documented also in the partial destruction of the building between the two periods) seems to be only generically explained with the Sidonian control of the settlement that continued at least in the first years after the conquest of Alexander the Great.

4Among the finds presented by the A. in this article, it may be of some interest to note the almost complete lack of terracotta anthropomorphic figurines as well as the presence of two canine burials in an open-air sector of area A interpreted as a metal workshop dated to the Hellenistic period (phase LT-3a).

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Maria Gabriella Micale, « Andrew J. Danielson, Aaron A. Burke, Martin Pleistöcker, Krister Kowalski, Edward Maher. “Persian and Hellenistic Jaffa: Re-Examining Jacob Kaplan’s Excavations in Area A (1970-1974)” »Abstracta Iranica [En ligne], Volume 42-43 | 2021, document 76, mis en ligne le 30 décembre 2021, consulté le 28 mars 2024. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/abstractairanica/54444 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/abstractairanica.54444

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