Excavator · Cataloguer
Saller
fl. 1937–1964
Excavator and cataloguer, active 1937–1964.
Life and work
- UndatedExcavated tombs at Dominus Flevit on the Mount of Olives (1953) and at el-'Eizariya (1937) and published them; the Dominus Flevit tomb held about 50 Bronze Age Cypriot sherds.
- UndatedPublished the Mount of Olives cave in detail as 'The Jebusite Burial Place'.
Rivka Gonen, Burial Patterns and Cultural Diversity in Late Bronze Age Canaan (1992), p. 134
- UndatedExcavated a burial cave at el-'Eizariya in 1937 whose oil lamps are listed; published the cave in his 1957 Bethany report.
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3 mentionsDocuments · 3
- Burial Patterns and Cultural Diversity in Late Bronze Age Canaan
Gonen 1992
- Late Bronze Age imported pottery in the Land of Israel: Between economy, society and symbolism
Greener 2015
- Oil-Lamps in the Holy Land: Saucer Lamps From the beginning to the Hellenistic period Collections of the Israel Antiquities Authority
Sussman 2007
Sources
- 1.Aaron Greener, Late Bronze Age Imported Pottery in the Land of Israel: Between Economy, Society and Symbolism (2015).
- 2.Rivka Gonen, Burial Patterns and Cultural Diversity in Late Bronze Age Canaan (1992).
- 3.Varda Sussman, Oil-Lamps in the Holy Land: Saucer Lamps From the beginning to the Hellenistic period Collections of the Israel Antiquities Authority (2007).
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