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.