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Melbourne Day 3 update 14 Aug 2013 | 06:08 pm
Another great day in Melbourne! Started with an intense 6 hours with Louise and Brent working on a joint article (on the social and symbolic significance of Philistine writing system(s) and language(s...
Melbourne report 2 13 Aug 2013 | 05:17 pm
Today, my 2nd day in Melbourne was quite nice as well. Not only was the weather great (sunny all day – I brought sunshine from Israel in my suitcase…), I had another very productive day working with L...
Safi team in Melbourne 12 Aug 2013 | 04:56 pm
I arrived in Melbourne this morning (Monday morning) and spent the day working with Louise on several joint articles that we are writing. This evening, we had a really nice get together of about 25 of...
This year’s T-Shirt on the youngest yet! 9 Aug 2013 | 11:43 am
See below this year’s T-shirt on our youngest team member – Merav Edrei’s newly born son Aviad (mazal tov!!!) We got the smallest size that was available – he’ll have to wait till he’s 1 years old to...
Article on new “Archaeological Science” applications at Tell es-Safi/Gath 1 Aug 2013 | 11:29 am
An article appeared today in the Jerusalem Post on the new handheld XRF spectrometer that the project will be receiving, courtesy of the president of Bar-Ilan University, Prof. Moshe Kaveh. Although t...
Great curse to keep handy! 30 Jul 2013 | 06:37 pm
Today, Lawson Younger mentioned in a lecture that he gave the recently published new curse that appears in the Esarhaddon treaty text from Tel Tayinat (recently discussed by J. Lauinger in the Journal...
Panoramic view of Area F 29 Jul 2013 | 11:37 am
Eric Welch, supervisor in Area Lower F, has sent me a great panoramic picture of Area F which he took with the IPhone panoramic picture feature. Here it is – cool!
New Photos of the “Make believe you are a Philistine day”! 29 Jul 2013 | 09:38 am
Assaf, who was our major domo this season (and hopefully, in future seasons as well), has sent me a bunch of photos that he took last Monday morning when we all dressed up as Philistines and tried to ...
Great news – Tell es-Safi/Gath, Vol. I receives award! 28 Jul 2013 | 08:22 am
I have received the very nice news that the first volume of the final reports on the excavations at Tell es-Safi/Gath has been selected for the 2013 Biblical Archaeology Society Publication award in t...
And two nice pictures from Louise 27 Jul 2013 | 10:49 pm
Here are two nice pictures that Louise sent: One shows a group of us looking at the ivory bowl as it was being uncovered, and the second shows camaraderie that developed during the season! ...
