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‘Atiqot 51 (2006)
ISBN 2948-040X
Aspects of Phoenician Burial Customs in the Roman Period in Light of an Excavation near El-Kabri (Kabri)
(pp. 91–123)
Edna J. Stern and Nimrod Getzov
Keywords: burial, glass vessels, iron nail, bracelet, bronze bell, spindle whorls, bead, numismatics, anthropology, ethnicity
Seven tombs were excavated, belonging to three types: three loculi (
kokhim
) tombs, with clay coffins; three shaft tombs; and one pit grave. The first two types date to the Late Roman period, and the third type, to the Ottoman period. The burial goods found within the Roman-period tombs are typical of Phoenician burials, thereby identifying the ethnic identity of the deceased. This observation is further confirmed by historical sources describing the geographical border between the Jewish and Phoenician populations in western Galilee during the second and third centuries CE.