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Bagatti                 Kopp                        Description                                       #                    Movable

    #                            #                          data / location                             kokhim                Finds?

  
—                            1                           Discovered 1935.                                6                              —

  
—                            2              Large tomb. Had rolling stone.                      13                           —

  
72                           3                           “Richmond” tomb                               9                              √

Another kokh tomb could have abutted this one (Kopp 1938:194)

   —                            4              Once connected to nos. 3 & 5?                       6                             —

  
—                            5                           Has stone ledge.                                  16                           —

  
70                           6              “Laham” tomb (
Exc
. Fig. 192)                       13                           √            

Had rolling stone.

   73                           7           Sisters of Nazareth (2 chambers)                    7+                           —          

                                                                                     Rolling stone.

   —(!)                       8                                Unfinished.                                      1+                           —

   74                           9                “A classic kokhim tomb” (Kopp)               10                           —          

   —                            10                             Destroyed.                                       ?                              —

   76                           12                        Greatly damaged.                                6                              —          

   77                           13                        Large kokh complex.                          24+                         —

   —                            14                             Trough tomb.                                  2                              —

   79                           15               With graffiti (Bagatti:1967b).                    12                           —

   —                            16               Made into cistern (filled in)                      14                           —

   —                           17                        (No plan available.)                            8                              —

   78                           18              One chamber destroyed.                             6+                           —

   —                           19             Destroyed. (Contiguous tombs?)               4+                           —

   —                            20             Sunken graves (“
Senkgräber
”)                    2+                           —

   —                            21             Unspecified no. of sunken graves.              ?                             —

(“Many similar [
unexcavated
] tombs” nearby [Kopp 1938:204])

   71                           22        4 chambers (largest tomb in basin).               Many                      √

Bagatti: “A description is wanting” (
Exc
.240). When Kopp visited the site, he wrote that a rolling stone sealed the still unexplored 4
th
chamber.

   —                            23                        Largely destroyed.                                8                            —

 27(!)                         —         Under CA. (Kopp 1938:196–97)       5+           —

 29(!)                         —                              Under CA.                                         ?                             —

 o/p(!)                       —                              Under CA.                                         2+                           —

   —                            —                         El Batris St. (ESI 18[1998]:32).       5+                           √

                                                                                (3–4 chambers. Sparse finds.)        

Appendix 5:
Independent Datings of Nazareth Lamps and Pottery

 

A.
Rosenthal and Sivan 1978 (RS)

An asterisk signifies that the lamp is also dated by Fernandez 1982.

 

• RS 81 “Herodian lamp”: 4 bow-spouted oil lamps (
Exc
: 239 & fig. 192:6*;
Exc
. Fig. 233:1, 2, 3* on pp. 300, 305, 307, and fig. 235:3–4
[796]
  on p. 304).                                                                    à
c
. 25 BCE–
c
. 150 CE
[797]

 

• RS 85 “Mould-made lamp”:  4 “Darom” lamps (QDAP 1 [1932], pl. 34:2 lower right
[798]
 
;
Exc
. pp. 239 and fig. 192:7*, 8*, 9*on p. 238).
 
[799]
                                                                                                à
c
. 70 CE–
c
. 135 CE.

 

• RS 89 “Round lamps with decorated discus”: 4 Middle Roman lamps (QDAP 1 [1932], pl. 34:2 upper row left and right;
Exc
. pp. 239 nos. 13–14
[800]
and fig. 192 on p. 238).             à
c
. 50 CE–III CE

 

• RS 100 “Lamps of the third and fourth centuries”: 1 Roman lamp

(
Exc
. pp. 239:12  and fig. 192:12 on p. 238). à III–IV CE

 

• RS 111 “Ovoid lamps with low relief decoration on the rim and discus”:

3 Roman lamps (
Exc
. fig. 235:17, 18, 20*).   à III–IV CE

 

• RS 112 “Bi-lanceolate lamps”: 2 Roman lamps

(
Exc
. fig. 81*, left; fig. 235:21).         à III–IV CE

 

• RS 120 “Large lamps: Radiated decoration”: 1 lamp

(
Exc
. fig. 234:17).                à VI CE “at the earliest”

 

• RS 138 “Lamps with linear pattern”: 1 lamp

(
Exc
. fig. 234:27).                                à VI CE+

 

• RS 137 “Mameluke lamp”: 1 lamp

(
Exc
. fig. 234:14).                                                à XIII–XIV CE

 

B.
Fernandez 1982

(An asterisk signifies that the lamp is also dated by

Rosenthal and Sivan 1978.)
[801]

 

Oil lamps

 

Page
                                                                                     
Type
                                                     
Date

 

32, 63   The “Hellenistic nozzle”                                     L 1                                                                          Uncertain.
[802]
                                        

(
Exc
. fig. 192:15)

33           Bow-spouted lamp                                             L 3.2                                                       15 BCE–60 CE
[803]
                

(
Exc
. fig. 192:6*)

34           Bow-spouted lamp                                             L 3.4b                                                     40 CE–80 CE
[804]
                                   

(
Exc
. fig. 233:3*)

36           Bow-spouted lamp                                             L 7                                                          70–115 CE

                (
Exc
. fig. 192:10)

36           Bow-spouted lamp                                             L 8.1                                                       80–140 CE

                (Berytus 14/2 [1963], n. 516)

37           3 lamps “Darom”                                                L 8.2                                                       80–140 CE

                (
Exc
. fig. 192:7*, 8*, 9*)

37           Roman lamp                                                         L 9.1a                                                     50–130 CE

                (
Exc
. fig. 235:9b)

38           2 Roman lamps                                                   L 9.1c                                                     100–260 CE

                (
Exc
. fig. 192:13, 14)

39           3 Roman lamps                                                   L 10.2                                                     130–340 CE

                (
Exc
. fig. 235:10. 11. 13)

40           2 Roman lamps                                                   L 12                                                        275–360 CE

                (
Exc
. figs. 81* and 235:21)

41           Roman lamp                                                         L 14                                                        260–350 CE

                (
Exc
. fig. 235:20*)

41           Roman lamp                                                         L 15                                                        230–330 CE

                (
Exc
. fig. 192:12)Pottery

 

C.
Bagatti 
Excavations

 

               
Page
                                                 
Artefact
                           
figure #
                         
Type
                    
Date

 

            108                                           Jar                           (217:4)                   T 1.5                 60
BCE
–70
CE
[805]
            112                                            Flask                      (220:6)                   T 5.1                 80
CE
–290
CE
[806]
 
            115                                            Jug                       (192:20)                   T 8.3                 70   
CE
–300   
CE
                                                             Jug                       (192:22)                   T 8.4                 40   
BCE
–210 
CE
[807]
            119                                           Cooking pot           (192:26)                   T 10.5               70 
BCE
–70
CE
12
 
                       
120                                           2 cooking pots         (192:18; 224:7)        T 10.6a             50   
CE
–180
CE
                                                            Cooking pot           (224:8)                     T 10.6b             150  
CE
–300
CE
            121                                           Cooking pot           (224:9)                     T 10.6c             260  
CE
–360
CE
                                                            Cooking pot           (224:3)                     T 10.6d             250
CE
–360
CE
            124                                           Kettle                     (224:10)                   T 12.2               120
CE
–300
CE
            126                                           Pan                        (226:1)                     T 15.1c             200
CE
–360
CE
            127                                           Pan                       (226:4)                     T 15.2a             50  
CE
–170
CE
                                                            Pan                        (226:2)                     T 15.2b             150
CE
–250
CE

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