> Thank you Ian for your comments on En Gedi. By "Herodian" remains, did
>the excavators include the period of Herod the Great, or are we speaking
>later Herodian?
Mazar and Dunayevsky talk of two phases of usage, the second of which featured two
coins from Agrippa I. They suggest it was first a public building then it was turned
into a private dwelling, but they don't really give clear indications of the date
range of the first phase.
They talk generically of the pottery of the building they say it has a close
affinity to that of the conflagration layer of in western tower (stratum II), then
they suggest that stratum II should be redated to the time of Herod's successors --
"However, the beginning of this stratum may well be earlier". I guess this apparent
side discussion about the western tower stratigraphy must be taken as some attempt
at a general dating.
Ian
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