Excavator · Scholar
Kochavi
fl. 1964–1993
Excavator and scholar, active 1964–1993. Excavated with Ohata; worked for Tel Aviv University Institute of Archaeology.
Life and work
- 1977Published the ostracon from 'Izbet Sartah in TA 1977, dating it to the Period of the Judges.
- 1993Excavator of Tel Zeror, Tel Aphek and Tel Hadar who identified a decorated jug as Cypriot of the sixth century BCE (1993).
- 1993Cited in note 39 as the author of a 1993 publication on Tel Hadar I, the 8th-century town with a public building, Aramaic inscription and tambourine-holder.
Herbert Niehr, The Aramaeans in Ancient Syria (2014), p. 347
- 1993Cited as determining the Decorated East Greek jug as Cypriot and dating it to the 6th century BCE (1993: 934–936).
Itzhaq Beit-Arieh; Liora Freud, Tel Malḥata: A Central City in the Biblical Negev (2015), p. 209
- UndatedCurrently excavating Tel Aphek on behalf of the Tel Aviv University Institute of Archaeology, producing a stratified ceramic sequence.
Patty Gerstenblith, The Levant at the Beginning of the Middle Bronze Age (1983), p. 28
- UndatedCited in the index for pages on Israelite archaeology, with no described action regarding Cyprus.
Mentioned in
5 mentionsDocuments · 3
Lectures and videos · 2
- Historical Perspectives of Jewish Presence: Archives and Memory of the British Detention Camps in Cyprus
Chair · 2018
Offenbach & Kutner 2018
- Historical Perspectives of Jewish Presence: World War II Refugees and the British Detention Camps in Cyprus
Speaker · 2018
Margaritis et al. 2018
Sources
- 1.Aaron Greener, Late Bronze Age Imported Pottery in the Land of Israel: Between Economy, Society and Symbolism (2015).
- 2.Patty Gerstenblith, The Levant at the Beginning of the Middle Bronze Age (1983).
- 3.Gershon Galil; Ayelet Gilboa; Aren M. Maeir; Dan'el Kahn, The Ancient Near East in the 12th-10th Centuries BCE: Culture and History (2012).
- 4.Herbert Niehr, The Aramaeans in Ancient Syria (2014).
- 5.Itzhaq Beit-Arieh; Liora Freud, Tel Malḥata: A Central City in the Biblical Negev (2015).
- 6.Near Eastern Archaeology 1973-1982: 36-45 Index.
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