Current Issue
Past Issues
Editoral Policy
About Us
Guide to Contributors
Call for Papers
Submission
‘Atiqot 83 (2015)
ISBN 2948-040X
Meron: A Late Roman–Ottoman Settlement
(pp. 125–142)
Howard Smithline
Keywords: Upper Galilee, Jewish pilgrimage, itineraries of Jewish travelers, Jewish community, Crusader documents, Frankish population, Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem
Three squares were excavated, revealing four strata: Stratum 1, from the Late Ottoman period (eighteenth–early twentieth centuries); Stratum 2, dating to the Crusader/Mamluk period; Stratum 3, from the Byzantine period; and Stratum 4, from the Late Roman period. The ceramic finds date mainly from the thirteenth through the fifteenth centuries CE; exceptions include Ottoman Rashaya el-Fukhar ware and a cooking pot from the Late Roman–Byzantine periods. The excavation at Meron yielded additional information regarding the Roman and Byzantine settlements there. The excavated area appears to have exposed the southern limits of the Crusader and Mamluk settlements. The site remained abandoned from the end of the Mamluk period until the establishment of a Late Ottoman settlement, probably in the eighteenth century, which continued intensively through the early twentieth century.