General

Stratum

Local stratigraphy in each of the excavation areas

Period^a

Date^b

I

A-1

B-1

J1-2

Early Islamic

8-11^th Centuries CE

II

A-2

B-2

-

-

-

J-3

Iron Age IIB/C

After 732

III

A-3a

A-3b

B-3

J-3-4

Iron Age IIB

Until 732 

IV

A-4

B-4^C

C-1a

D-1a

E-1a

F-1

G-1

J-5

Iron Age IIA

Until

ca. 830-840

From ca. 980

V

B-5a*

B-5b

C-1b

D-1b

E-1b

G-2

G-2

J-6-7

VI

B-6

C-2

D-2

E-2

F-3-4

G-3

J-8

VII

B-7

C-3

D-3

D-4

D-5

Iron Age IB

Until 990-980

ca. 1130 (?)

D-6

D-7

Iron Age IA

12^th century

D-8

D-9a

D-9b

Late Bronze

IIA-B

14th -13th  centuries  

D-10

Late Bronze

I-IIA

15^th-14^th century

D-11

MB/LBI

16^th century

^a  Terminology  and following  E.Stern (editor) Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land 1993: 1529.

^b   Dates following Stern op. cit; Iron Age IIA dates following the Modified Conventional Chronology (Mazar 2005). BCE dates in all cells except the upper one.

^c   Needs further clarification in the future. It is possible that 5a should be correlated with general Stratum IV.

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