The Temple Complex at Horvat Omrit

J. Andrew Overman, Ph.D. (1989) Boston University, is the Drake Distinguished Professor in Art History and the Humanities at Macalester College. He has excavated numerous sites in northern Israel and the Black Sea. Daniel N. Schowalter, Th.D. (1989) Harvard University, is Emeritus Professor of Classics and Religion at Carthage College in Kenosha, WI. He also digs at Mandeure, a Roman theater/sanctuary in eastern France, and studies Roman religion at sites around the Mediterranean. Michael C. Nelson, Ph.D. (2001), University of Toronto, is an Associate Professor of Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology at Queens College. He published Volume 1 which presented the architecture of the three Roman period temples.

Preface, Excavation Methodology, and Nomenclature

List of Tables, Figures and Plates

Abbreviations



Introduction

 J. Andrew Overman



1 The Stratigraphy

 J. Andrew Overman, Daniel N. Schowalter, Michael C. Nelson, and Nanette Goldman



2 The Hellenistic and Roman Pottery

 Débora Sandhaus



3 The Lamps: Catalog and Discussion

 Renate Rosenthal-Heginbottom



4 The Terracotta Figurines

 Adi Erlich



5 Wall Painting Remains in Horvat Omrit: Final Report

 Silvia Rozenberg



6 The Coins from the Temple Excavations at Omrit

 Gabriela Bijovsky



7 An Inscription on the Paving of the Omrit Temple Complex

 Daniel N. Schowalter



8 A Fragmentary Aramaic Inscription from the 3rd Century BCE

 Hagai Misgav



9 Sacrificial Holocaust: The Faunal Remains from the Roman Temple Excavations at Omrit

 Rachel Hesse



10 Jewelry from the Temple Area

 Tziona Grossmark



11 A Roman Sphinx Statue from Omrit

 Tali Sharvit



12 A Neo-Assyrian Cylinder Seal from Horvat Omrit Dated to the Reign of Sargon II (721–705 BCE)

 Baruch Brandl and Tziona Grossmark



13 A Stucco Relief

 Adi Erlich



14 The Zeus Altar

 Emily Prosch



Appendix: Square Stratigraphy and Associated Material Culture

Index

Plates