A Happy Camper Digging DestructionExcavating an 8th Century KitchenStorage Jars Destroyed by the ArameansLarge Storage Jar in SituExamining an Iron Age JugletThe 9th Century BCE AssemblageDigging A Destroyed JarLMLK StampA Large and Small ContainerLate Bronze Age FigurineExcavating a 9th Century Chalice
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Putting a jar together An array of flint bladesEgyptian Dieties at SafiGetting dirty in the digA Chalice in SituA Pomegranate-shaped vesselA Crusader Glass BottleAn 8th Century Kitchen
Archaeology and Science at its bestA 9th Century BCE Doughnut?A Canaanite Diety in a Philistine World9th Century BCE vesselsA Late Bronze Age Lamp and Bowl DepositExcavating an animal skeletonA Late Philistine Cultic CornerAn Early Bronze Age Storage Jar stuck in the ground
  
A Philistine HearthDigging in the darkArea F and its leaderSitting in A Middle Bronze GlacisSmashed JugsWe've struck gold!!!We've struck gold again!!!Young at Heart!
Working NightsDigging a donkeyThe Crusader FortDogs are best at diggingAn amphoriskos in SituA 9th Century BCE JugIts Never too early to start diggingWorking on the 9th Century Destruction
Sifting for small findsCarefully brushing findsA Middle Bronze Age Knife in a Late Bronze Age WorldA Building from the 8th Century BCEA bottle from the cultic cornerA strainer jug
Prof. Aren M. Maeir, Director
Tell es-Safi/Gath Excavations
The Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology
Bar Ilan University
Ramat Gan, 52900
aren.maeir@biu.ac.il