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‘Atiqot 100 (2020)
ISBN 2948-040X
The Molluscs from the French School on Yefet Street, Yafo (Jaffa)
(pp. 529–532)
Inbar Ktalav
Keywords: malacology
An assemblage of 76 malacological remains was retrieved from the French School in Yafo. It includes 11 species of local Mediterranean seashells and land snails, one indo-pacific bivalve, one bivalve from the Nile River and two fragments of freshwater bivalves. A cross made of mother of pearl was found in a soil accumulation of the late Ottoman period. The shells were used as construction material and as objects of aesthetic or symbolic value, possibly amulets.