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- ISBN 9781646023288
- Weight: 1474g
- Dimensions: 216 x 279mm
- Publication Date: 29 Jul 2025
- Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book deals with the first three campaigns of the German-Israeli Tell Iẓṭabba Excavation Project, conducted by the Institute for Classical Archaeology and Christian Archaeology / Archaeological Museum of the University of Münster and the Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University, under the direction of Achim Lichtenberger and Oren Tal. Tell Iẓṭabba is the location of the town of Nysa (Scythopolis), established in the Seleucid period, a short-lived Hellenistic site founded under Antiochus IV in the 160s BCE and destroyed under John Hyrcanus in 107 BCE. The excavations shed light upon the material culture of this period, as well as producing evidence of earlier (Early Bronze Age) and later (Byzantine) occupation.
Achim Lichtenberger is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Münster and Director of the university’s Archaeological Museum, specializing in the archaeology of the Hellenistic and Roman Near East. He has been codirector of the German-Israeli Tell Iẓṭabba Excavation Project since 2019 and has codirected archaeological excavations in Jordan (Gerasa, 2011–2017) and Armenia (Artaxata, since 2018).
Oren Tal is Professor of Classical Archaeology at Tel Aviv University, specializing in the archaeology of the classical and medieval Near East. He has been codirector of the German-Israeli Tell Iẓṭabba Excavation Project since 2019 and director of the Apollonia-Arsuf Excavation Project since 2007 and has excavated many other sites in Israel.
