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‘Atiqot 97 (2019)
ISBN 2948-040X
Middle Bronze Age Burial Pits in Ashqelon
(pp. 1–83)
Lilly Gershuny
Keywords: Southern Levant, coastal plain, cemetery, jar burials, offerings, burial customs, Cypriot White Painted V amphora, anthropology, petrography, Egypt, southern Canaan, population, mollusks, flint
The excavations at Ashqelon unearthed 76 Middle Bronze Age burial pits, cut in the
kurkar
sandstone ridge. The burial pits are irregular in shape and vary in size. They contained skeletal remains of one individual or more, and a burial kit comprising pottery vessels: a store jar, a dipper juglet and a platter or carinated bowl. Additions to the burial kit included other pottery vessels and various artifacts such as a scarab, toggle pins, daggers, an alabaster pommel, a bone comb and beads. This cemetery is an important addition to the study of Middle Bronze Age burial customs and sites.