Volume 70 no. 2
June 2007

Sissota-Hippos of the Decapolis: Town Planning and Architecture of a Roman-Byzantine City

Forum: Reading Northwest Semitic Inscriptions
by Aaron Demsky

The Harbor of Atlit in Northern Canaanite/Phoenician Context
by Arad Haggi and Michal Artzy

Sussita-Hippos of the Decapolis: Town Planning and Architecture of a Roman Byzantine City
by Arthur Segal and Michael Eisenberg

DEPARTMENTS

ARTI-FACTS

Mind the Gap: Continuity and Change in Iranian Sistan Archaeology
{Mehdi Mortazavi)

"Crossing Jordan" in Washington, D.C.: The Tenth International Conference on the History and Archaeology of Jordan
(Douglas R. Clark and Barbara A. Porter)

REVIEWS

A Guide to Biblical Sites in Greece and Turkey
{Peter Lampe)

Hidden Treasures of Ancient Egypt: Unearthing the Masterpieces of Egyptian History
(Darren Glazier)

Idols of the People: Miniature Images of Clay in the Ancient Near East
(Beth Alpert Nakhai)

Architecture and Mathematics in Ancient Egypt
(T. Musacchio)

Towns in Ancient Israel and the Southern Levant
(Steve Ortiz)

68 Forum: Reading Northwest Semitic Inscriptions
by Aaron Demsky

The author, one of the foremost epigraphers of Northwest Semitic languages, offers insights into the process he uses to unravel the mysteries of ancient texts. From potsherds to monumental inscriptions, ancient scripts once again speak to us, revealing much about the social world of the peoples of the Levant in the biblical period.

75 The Harbor of Atlit in Northern Canaanite/Phoenician Context
by Arad Haggi and Michal Artzy

Serving its city throughout the Iron Age, the harbor at Atlit has provided modern excavators with a unique opportunity to isolate the characteristics of Phoenician marine construction techniques.

86 Sussita-Hippos of the Decapolis: Town Planning and Architecture of a Roman Byzantine City
by Arthur Segal and Michael Eisenberg

Recent excavations on the site of Hippos-Sussita near the Sea of Galilee have revealed a city founded in the second century BCE, but whose urban plan belongs to the Roman and Byzantine periods. The colonnaded thoroughfare that runs through the center of the city with intersecting streets that demarcate residential and public quarters; a temple, or kalybe, for the imperial cult; and the remains of a triumphal arch, all suggest that this city of the Decapolis, although Greek in culture, was very Roman in its town planning.