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‘Atiqot 60 (2008)
ISBN 2948-040X
A Burial Complex from the Roman Period in Ancient Haifa
(with contributions by Donald T. Ariel and Yossi Nagar)
(Hebrew, pp. 1*–11*; English summary, pp. 197–198)
Shalom Yanklevitz
Keywords: Carmel, burial, burial goods, wooden coffins
Within the boundaries of Ancient Haifa (Haifa el-‘Atiqa) a burial cave was exposed, hewn in the
kurkar
rock. Two burial chambers and the remains of two others survived, entered through a courtyard. Chamber 1 was well-preserved, containing eight burial troughs hewn in two
arcosolia
and an additional trough near the entrance. The cave was dated based on the finds within Chamber 1, including coins, to the fourth–sixth centuries CE; it served for burial up to the seventh century CE. The cave was probably part of the Jewish cemetery of Haifa during the Roman and Byzantine periods.