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‘Atiqot 107 (2022)
ISBN 2948-040X
Coins from the Pools of ‘Ein el-Jarab, Ḥammat Gader
(pp. 143–151)
Ariel Berman and Gabriela Bijovsky
Keywords: numismatics
A total of 189 bronze coins, 52 of which were identifiable, were retrieved from the Ḥammat Gader excavations. According to the numismatic evidence, the slope east of ‘Ein el-Jarab was first settled during the second half of the fourth century CE (Straum 4). The bulk of the coins assigned to Stratum 3 date to the fourth–sixth centuries CE, the latest belonging to the Umayyad caliph al-Walid I, dated to the beginning of the eighth century CE and an Umayyad post-Reform
fals
. All the coins associated with Stratum 2 are Umayyad post-Reform issues, for the most part dating to the eighth century CE. No coins were associated with Stratum 1.