Excavations in the eastern Lower City of Tel Hazor revealed part of a courtyard building (Area Q2) and a rampart (Area Q3), as well as a drainage channel and a rampart system (Area N). The building, dating to the Late Bronze Age, exhibited three building phases. Beneath the Phase II floor, two storage-jar burials were found, one of which contained fragmentary bones of a child. The finds in the building were sparse, including decorated ware, Bichrome ware and Chocolate-on-White ware. Also found were a zoomorphic figurine, an anthropomorphic(?) object and an alabastron. The building was of public (administrative?) character, as attested by the stone paving, basalt orthostats in secondary use and a red-plaster fragment. In a probe (Area Q3), dug in the center of the earthen ramparts surrounding the Lower City, a large quantity of pottery was unearthed, dating to late Middle Bronze Age IIA. Although small in scale, these excavations illuminate issues regarding the nature and chronology of the eastern Lower City of Tel Hazor during MB II and LB I.