Elijah's cave on Mount Carmel and its inscriptions / / Asher Ovadiah and Rosario Pierri.

• Superior document: Archaeopress archaeology
• VerfasserIn: Ovadiah, Asher,; Pierri, Rosario,
• TeilnehmendeR: Pierri, Rosario,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd,, [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Archaeopress archaeology.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (v, 138 pages) :; illustrations.

Artistic and epigraphic evidence suggest that Elijah's Cave, on the western slope of Mt. Carmel, had been used as a pagan cultic place, possibly a shrine, devoted to Ba'al Carmel (identified with Zeus/Jupiter) as well as to Pan and Eros as secondary deities.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter I -- Plan, Ornamentation and Surroundings -- Chapter II -- Mount Carmel and Elijah's Cave: Context, Meaning and Function -- Chapter III -- Literary/Historical Sources -- Chapter IV -- The Inscriptions -- Epilogue -- Appendix I Onomasticon of Masculine and Feminine Greek, Latin and Semitic Personal Names -- Appendix II Hebrew Inscriptions (on the east wall, without continuation to the consecutive numbers of the inscriptions in Chapter IV) -- Appendix V Peculiar Expressions -- Abbreviations -- Appendix III Formulae -- Appendix IV Invocations -- Appendix VI Exclamations -- Bibliography -- Figures -- Index.