• DOI:10.5356/ORIENT1960.20.109
• Corpus ID: 129119690

HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN TOWERS ON THE NORTH RISE, TEL ZEROR

@inproceedings{Ogawa1984HELLENISTICAR,
  title={HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN TOWERS ON THE NORTH RISE, TEL ZEROR},
  author={Hideo Ogawa},
  year={1984}
}

• H. Ogawa
• Published 1984
• History

The first, second, and third season's excavations by the Japanese Expedition to Tel Zeror, Isreal, were conducted in 1965-1967.(1) At this time massive stone foundations were discovered on the summit of the north mound about thirty-five meters above sea level.(2) They are thought to represent the building complex with the highest elevation at Tel Zeror.(3) When the first small section of this complex was excavated in 1965 it was named the "Hellenistic Building" (Towers A and B in this article). Later, in 1966 and 1967, the rest of the remarkably large complex was uncovered further to the east. It was called the "Watch Tower" (Tower C in this article). The reports(4) on these two sections of the site were publishedseparately and suggest that some parts of them are not related. Neither site, futhermore, has been dated precisely. In this paper I will call the entire complex "towers." The purpose of this work is to reconstruct the original plans of the "towers", date them more precisely, and discuss their possible uses and historical meaning.