The Archaeology of the Ostraca House at Israelite Samaria: Epigraphic Discoveries in Complicated Contexts - ASOR Annual 70

About Ron E. Tappy

Robert Jehu Bull was the emeritus director of the Drew University's Institute for Archaeological Research later the Joint Expeditions to Caesarea Maritima where he excavated from 1971 to 1996 exposing major parts of the city's street plan warehouse complex a residential quarter and parts of the hippodrome. Before excavating at Caesarea he excavated and led excavations at Shechem Balatah Ai Pella Tell er-Ras and Khirbet Shema'. Andrew H. Bobeck His book Techniques for Improving Digital Photographs by OutSkirts Press covers in depth the graphics technique he used to recover the faded colours of the Caesarea fresco. Jane DeRose Evans is a Professor of Art History and is affiliated with the Department of Greek and Latin Classics at Temple University. She has excavated in Greece Italy England Israel and France. Currently she is the specialist numismatist for the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis (Harvard and Cornell universities) and Bir Madkhour (George Washington University). Robert S. Fritzius has published the Introduction and First Part of an English translation of Walter Ritz's Recherches critiques sur l'Électrodynamique Générale and served as staff artist for the excavations at Elusa Israel.  He is a member of the American Astronomical Society the Committee on Space Research and the Venus Exploration and Analysis Group. Alexandra L. Ratzlaff is a Fellow at the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem and a University Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Maritime Civilizations at the University of Haifa. She recently completed a two-year Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Haifa. Her research and publication projects focus on the Roman army Roman and Byzantine ceramics the Late Antique maritime economy and trade networks of the Mediterranean world.