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This study is primarily concerned with placing the pottery of these cisterns before students of archaeology in order to get the benefit of their criticism before final publication. A big majority of the cistern material was pottery, and other artifacts are merely noted, excepting a few items whose bearing on the pottery study made a brief treatment valuable. As groups they are important, especially as two of them are assigned mainly to the Late Iron period,2 " Early Iron III," " Iron III," or " Persian." \* Of more importance is the fact that they are part of a series of tombs and cisterns having dating material; a series which will be used, together with information from comparative studies, for the evaluation of the larger body of Tell en-Nasbeh remains. The limitations of space have made condensation imperative. The charts of chronological spread of pottery forms serve to obviate much comparative discussion as well as to direct attention towards the main import of the evidence. The earliest group is considered first. ## CISTERN 370, AF20 This cistern is located in the southwestern part of the site, just to the west of the highest bed rock. One course of a rubble masonry shaft no

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Author

Joseph Carson Wampler

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published

1941

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)