The Beth-Shean Valley Regional Project


 

Plan of Tel Beth-Shean, with location of the excavations area of the Hebrew University expedition

Air view of Tel Beth-Shean during 1994 season, looking west towards the Jezreel Valley.

Basalt relief showing combat between a lion and a dog or lioness (Late Bronze Age).

A gold ram head; made of thin gold sheet. 12th century BCE.

Lid of an anthropomorphic coffin, 12th century BCE

Paintings on pottery sherds, 14th century BCE. Above: from the University Museum excavations; below: a trumpeter, from the H.U. excavation

Plan of Early Bronze Ib public building, 32-31st centuries BCE (Area M).

Alabaster vessels from a grave of the Middle Bronze Age II (17th century BCE).

View of the temple of Stratum R2 (15th century BCE).

Isometric reconstruction of the Stratum R2 temple

Plan of the Egyptian garrison quarter at Beth-Shean during the time of the 20th Dynasty (12th century BCE, Stratum Lower VI).

A group of pottery vessels in Egyptian shape, produced at Beth-Shean (20th dynasty).

Plan of the Egyptian governor residency (Building 1500) of Stratum Lower VI, 12th century BCE

Top: Plan of the building found below Building 1500; below: plan of the citadel at Deir el-Balah (13th century BCE)

Detail of reconstruction of the Egyptian Governor Building on Tel Beth-Shean

Reconstruction and conservation of the Egyptian Governor Building on Tel Beth-Shean

Reconstructed plan of an Iron Age II dwelling, destroyed by fire probably during the Assyrian destruction of 732 BCE