The Landfill of Early Roman Jerusalem : : The 2013‒2014 Excavations in Area D3 / / Yuval Gadot.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Gadot, Yuval,
• MitwirkendeR: Adler, Yonatan,; Antler, Chen,; Farhi, Yoav,; Freestone, Ian,; Gadot, Yuval,; Huang, Shan,; Jackson-Tal, Ruth E.,; Langgut, Dafna,; Lernau, Omri,; Machline, Hélène,; Melech, Nitsan Ben,; Peters, Ilana,; Reich, Ronny,; Roth, Helena,; Sapir-Hen, Lidar,; Sharabi, Lena Naama,; Spiciarich, Abra,; Weiss, Ehud,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Ancient Jerusalem Publications ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 70 color/11 b&w illustrations/6 maps

This is the story of the landfill that operated in Jerusalem during the first century CE and served as its garbage dump during the ca. 50-year period that followed Jesus’s crucifixion through to the period that led to the great revolt of the Jews just prior to the city’s destruction.The book presents an extensive investigation of hundreds of thousands of items that were systematically excavated from the thick layers of landfill. It brings together experts who conducted in-depth studies of every sort of material discarded as refuse—ceramic, metal, glass, bone, wood, and more. This research presents an amazing and tantalizing picture of daily life in ancient Jerusalem, and how life was shaped and regulated by strict behavioral rules (halacha). The book also explores why garbage was collected in Jerusalem in so strict a manner and why the landfill operated for only about 50 years. Half a century of garbage from Early Roman–period Jerusalem provides an abundance of new data and new insights into the ideological choices and new religious concepts emerging and developing among those living in Jerusalem at this critical moment. It is an eye-opener for archaeologists, historians, anthropologists, and theologians, as well as for the general reader.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PART I: INTRODUCTION AND STRATIGRAPHY -- CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 2 STRATIGRAPHY -- PART II: THE FINDS -- CHAPTER 3 THE POTTERY -- CHAPTER 4 THE NUMISMATIC FINDS -- CHAPTER 5 THE CHALK VESSELS -- CHAPTER 6 THE GLASS FINDS -- CHAPTER 7.1 THE METAL ARTIFACTS -- CHAPTER 7.2 REPORT ON GLASSY SLAG FRAGMENTS -- CHAPTER 8 THE PLASTER FRAGMENTS -- CHAPTER 9 THE STONE SCALE-WEIGHTS -- CHAPTER 10 MISCELLANEOUS FINDS -- PART III: FLORA AND FAUNA -- CHAPTER 11 FAUNAL REMAINS -- CHAPTER 12 FISH REMAINS -- CHAPTER 13 ARCHAEOBOTANICAL ANALYSIS -- CHAPTER 14 SEEDS, GRAINS AND OTHER PLANT ORGANS -- PART IV: SYNTHESIS AND SUMMARY -- CHAPTER 15 COMMITTING THE KIDRONʼS WESTERN SLOPES TO GARBAGE DISPOSAL: JEWISH URBANISM UNDER ROMAN HEGEMONY -- INDEX OF LOCI