Excavator · Cataloguer · Archaeologist · Scholar
Moshe Dothan
fl. 1947–1973 · Israel
Israeli excavator and cataloguer, active 1947–1973. Worked with Porath.
Life and work
- 1954–1959Excavated the Middle Bronze Age temple precinct at Nahariya in 1954–55 and Tel Mor in 1959–60.
Patty Gerstenblith, The Levant at the Beginning of the Middle Bronze Age (1983), p. 38
- 1956–1958Excavator who reported on the Nahariya sanctuary with its Cypriot sherds (1956), the Iron Age tombs at Azor with Cypriot vessels (1958), and Ashdod stirrup jars.
- 1956Author of the 1956 report on the Nahariyah excavations, describing the temple, cult objects, mould and Cypriote sherds found at the sacred site.
- 1958Presented a paper on Iron Age tombs at Azor, where about 30 graves were unearthed in 1958 containing Cypriote vessels and a bronze mirror resembling one from Enkomi.
- 1959–1960Excavated Tel Mor in 1959-1960 and published preliminary reports; the author consulted him and his material at the Israel Antiquities Authority.
Higginbotham Carolyn R., Egyptianization and Emulation in Palestine (2000)
- 1969Gave a paper on Cyprus and Philistine coast relations in the Late Bronze Age (14 April 1969).
Connections
1 personColleagues & contacts
- Connected with Immanuel Ben-DorNahariya temple precinct Patty Gerstenblith, The Levant at the Beginning of the Middle Bronze Age (1983), p. 381947–1955
Mentioned in
6 mentionsDocuments · 5
- A preliminary study of the Mycenaean IIIC:1 pottery assemblages from Tel Miqne-Ekron and Ashdod
2004
directed the Ashdod excavations
Dothan & Zukerman 2004
- The Philistines and Aegean Migration at the End of the Late Bronze Age
2010
excavated Ashdod, proposed two waves
Yasur-Landau 2010
- 12. Aegean-Style Early Philistine Pottery in Canaan During the Iron I Age: A Stylistic Analysis of Mycenaean IIIC: 1 b Pottery and Its Associated Wares
2000
- The Levant at the Beginning of the Middle Bronze Age
Gerstenblith 1983
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Meyers 1997
- People · 1listed under Connections
Sources
- 1.12. Aegean-Style Early Philistine Pottery in Canaan During the Iron I Age: A Stylistic Analysis of Mycenaean IIIC: 1 b Pottery and Its Associated Wares (2000).
- 2.Israel Exploration Journal 1960: Vol 10 Iss 1 (1960).
- 3.Israel Exploration Journal 1956: Vol 6 Iss 1.
- 4.Patty Gerstenblith, The Levant at the Beginning of the Middle Bronze Age (1983).
- 5.Higginbotham Carolyn R., Egyptianization and Emulation in Palestine (2000).
- 6.Press and Information Office, Republic of Cyprus, press release of 14 April 1969, «Η εναρκτήριος Συνεδρία και αι εργασίαι της πρώτης ημέρας του Πρώτου Διεθνούς Κυπρολογικού Συνεδρίου».
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