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Engberg

fl. 1931–1938

Excavator and cataloguer, active 1931–1938. Worked with Einar Nilson Gjerstad.

Life and work

  1. 1931
  2. 1938
    With Guy, excavated and published the Megiddo tombs (1938), among them a grave on the eastern slope that held a Cypriot Bichrome bowl.

    Matthew J. Adams; Eran Arie; Eric H. Cline; Israel Finkelstein; Norma Franklin; Mario A.S. Martin; David Ussishkin, Megiddo V: The 2004-2008 Seasons (2013), p. 725

  3. 1938
    Excavated Tomb 1101A at Megiddo and published the Mycenaean sherds and group in their 1938 report, dating the group to Early Iron I.

    Penelope A. Mountjoy, A Mycenaean Vase from Megiddo (2008), p. 13

  4. 1938
    Excavated and published the Megiddo tombs (Tombs 63, 73, 80, 877, 912) in 1938, reporting the Aegean and Iron Age pottery found in them.

    The Aegean Pottery at Megiddo: An Appraisal and Reanalysis (1998), p. 1998

  5. Undated
  6. Undated
    Excavated and published Megiddo Eastern Cemetery Tomb 26 slender ovoid jars, noting their likely original decoration in blue, red and black.

    Manfred Bietak, Ägypten und Levante / Egypt and the Levant, Volume XIX (2009), p. 214

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Sources

  1. 1.Matthew J. Adams; Eran Arie; Eric H. Cline; Israel Finkelstein; Norma Franklin; Mario A.S. Martin; David Ussishkin, Megiddo V: The 2004-2008 Seasons (2013).
  2. 2.Varda Sussman, Oil-Lamps in the Holy Land: Saucer Lamps From the beginning to the Hellenistic period Collections of the Israel Antiquities Authority (2007).
  3. 3.Penelope A. Mountjoy, A Mycenaean Vase from Megiddo (2008).
  4. 4.Israel Finkelstein; David Ussishkin; Eric H. Cline; Matthew J. Adams; Eran Arie; Norma Franklin; Mario A.S. Martin, Megiddo V: The 2004-2008 Seasons, Volume II (2013).
  5. 5.Manfred Bietak, Ägypten und Levante / Egypt and the Levant, Volume XIX (2009).
  6. 6.The Aegean Pottery at Megiddo: An Appraisal and Reanalysis (1998).

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