Nazareth Report

Post by **Minimalist** » Sun Apr 19, 2009 8:58 am

From the Israel Antiquities Authority on a recent series of excavations.

http://www.hadashot-esi.org.il/report_d ... mag_id=115

even excavation areas (I–III, C–F) were opened. Remains of three masonry quarries that dated to the Roman period were discovered in Areas I, III and F; three farming terrace walls were excavated in Areas C–F, as well as the remains of two field towers. Fragments of pottery vessels that mostly dated to the Roman, Byzantine, Mamluk and Ottoman periods were found scattered on surface in each of the excavation areas. It seems that the remains belonged to a farmstead (farmhouse was not excavated), which was established in the Roman period, continued to exist in the Byzantine period and used again during the Mamluk and Ottoman periods.

No 'town', though. Consistent with what Stephen Pfann found when he excavated the site in the late 90's. The ancient city of Sepphoris would have been a few miles away while the town of Jotapata (famously defended by Josephus against Vespasian) was about a mile away.

E.P. Grondine · Post by **E.P. Grondine** » Sun Apr 19, 2009 9:15 am

"Show me the stone the builder's have rejected. That is the cornerstone"

Post by **Minimalist** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 11:46 am

You lost me, E.P. (Not that that's particularly difficult to do!)

E.P. Grondine · Post by **E.P. Grondine** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 8:25 pm

The quarries, Min.

Post by **Minimalist** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 8:37 pm

http://www.bibleplaces.com/sepphoris.htm

Sepphoris was about an hour’s walk from Nazareth.

And we know what the stone was used for. Still, an actual first century town of "Nazareth" has still not been found by archaeologists..