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‘Atiqot 96 (2019)
ISBN 2948-040X
Remains from the Byzantine to the Late Ottoman–British Mandate Periods at Mazor
(pp. 67–123)
Itamar Taxel and David Amit
Keywords: Samaria Hills, late Hellenistic, Hasmonean, Early Roman period, ceramics, numismatics, Christian population, agriculture
The excavations at Mazor yielded architectural remains from the Byzantine and late Ottoman–British Mandate periods, and poor remains from the Early Islamic and Mamluk–early Ottoman periods; the Hellenistic and Early Roman periods are represented by small finds only. Three buildings were exposed, typical of the Byzantine period in the region (mid-fifth–early sixth centuries CE), which belonged to either a private estate or an agricultural monastery. The settlement probably formed part of the eastern hinterland of the urban center at Lod (Lydda/Diospolis). The next substantial phase at the site began in the Ottoman period (eighteenth century CE), with the establishment of the village of al-Muzayri‘ah over the earlier remains. The village continued to exist until the end of the days of the British Mandate.