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Excavator · Antiquities official · Scholar · Other

Avraham Biran

fl. 1963–2019 · Israel

Israeli excavator and antiquities official, active 1963–2019.

Life and work

  1. 1967
  2. 1968
  3. 1969–1970
    Excavated Tomb 387 (the 'Mycenaean' tomb) at Tel Dan in 1969 and 1970, which contained three Cypriot vessels among its finds.

    Seymour Gitin; William G. Dever, Recent Excavations in Israel: Studies in Iron Age Archaeology (1989), p. 73

  4. 2019
    Said in the recorded talk «How Ancient Israel Began: A New Archaeological Perspective» (The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, 2019-06-06): Ilan's predecessor at Tel Dan who called the pithos form the Galilean pithos.

    David Ilan, «How Ancient Israel Began: A New Archaeological Perspective», recorded lecture, David A. Kipper Ancient Israel Lecture Series, The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, published on YouTube 2019-06-06, at 0:41:58

  5. Undated
    Director of the Israel Department of Antiquities and Museums; dated an imported Cypriot amphora from Tel 'Ira to the sixth or fifth century BCE.

    Revising Tell Abu Hawam (1985), p. 70

  6. Undated
    Excavator who dated the imported Cypriot amphora from Area L at Tel 'Ira to the 6th-5th centuries B.C.E. and wrote the excavator's note on it.

    Itzhak Beit-Arieh, Tel 'Ira: A Stronghold in the Biblical Negev (1999), p. 216

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  8. Undated
    Visited Cyprus briefly to study in museums and ancient monuments.

    Anon., "Archaeological Review", Cyprus Today vol. 5, no. 2 (April–June 1967), p. 8.

In the field

1 record

Tell Sippor

1963–1965

  • Directed excavations · 1963–1965Avraham Biran directed soundings by the Department of Antiquities and Museums at Tell Sippor.

    limestone temple-boy from Tell SipporNo. IDAM 60–66Beer 1994, p. 49

Mentioned in

6 mentions

Documents · 6

Sources

  1. 1.C. Beer (1994). Temple-boys: A Study of Cypriote Votive Sculpture, Part 1. Catalogue. Jonsered, Paul Åströms Förlag.
  2. 2.Carol Bell, The Evolution of Long Distance Trading Relationships across the LBA/Iron Age Transition on the Northern Levantine Coast: Crisis, continuity and change (2006).
  3. 3.Seymour Gitin; William G. Dever, Recent Excavations in Israel: Studies in Iron Age Archaeology (1989).
  4. 4.Varda Sussman, Oil-Lamps in the Holy Land: Saucer Lamps From the beginning to the Hellenistic period Collections of the Israel Antiquities Authority (2007).
  5. 5.Revising Tell Abu Hawam (1985).
  6. 6.Itzhak Beit-Arieh, Tel 'Ira: A Stronghold in the Biblical Negev (1999).
  7. 7.Varda Sussman, Greek and Hellenistic Wheel- and Mould-Made Closed Oil Lamps in the Holy Land Collection of the Israel Antiquities Authority (2009).
  8. 8.Anon., "Archaeological Review", Cyprus Today vol. 5, no. 2 (April–June 1967).
  9. 9.David Ilan, «How Ancient Israel Began: A New Archaeological Perspective», recorded lecture, David A. Kipper Ancient Israel Lecture Series, The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, published on YouTube 2019-06-06, at 0:41:58. Online

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