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‘Atiqot 66 (2011)
ISBN 2948-040X
An Early Byzantine-Period Burial Cave at Kabul
(pp. 107–136)
Fanny Vitto
Keywords: cemetery, burial goods, Jewish population
The burial cave excavated at Kabul, in the western Galilee, is of the chamber-tomb type, surrounded by six vaulted chambers, each containing two troughs. The finds in the cave consist of glass vessels, jewelry and a coin—no pottery vessels or lamps were discovered—all dating to the late fourth century CE; a New Kingdom scarab was apparently reused in a piece of jewelry. The cave was probably used for family burial, possibly of a Jewish family, based on the finds and rabbinic sources describing Kabul as a Jewish town.