Jerusalem, Giv‘ati Parking Lot 2017–2018
Israel Antiquities Authority, Yuval Gadot, Bocher, Yiftah Shalev, Israel Antiquities Authority, Nitsan Shalom, Israel Antiquities Authority, Efrat Bocher, Israel Antiquities Authority, Hélène Machline
Abstract
In July 2017-December 2018, excavations were conducted in the Givʻati Parking Lot in the City of David in Jerusalem (License Nos. G-71/2017, G-11/2018; map ref. 22234/63128; Fig. 1). The excavation, undertaken on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority and Tel Aviv University and funded by the Elad Association, was directed by Y. Gadot and Y. Shalev, with the assistance of N. Mizrachi (administration), E. Bocher and N. Shalom (senior field archaeologists), H. Machline, D. Gellman, H. Roth and A. Zilberstein (area supervision), R. Zalut, S. Aber, Y. Hockema and M. Hadash (area supervision assistance), V. Essman (surveying and drafting), A. Van-Zuiden (conservation planning and implementation), A. Peretz (field photography), Y. Izbozky (aerial photography), A. Wiegmann, A. Rose and O. Bejarano (photogrammetry), D. Tanami (metal detection), J. Regev and E. Boaretto (radiocarbon dating), D. Sandhaus, L. Freud and A. Berlin (pottery), Y. Wiener, S. Salem and D. Menahem (pottery restoration), C. Hersch (pottery drawing), A. German-Levanon (pottery scanning), D.T. Ariel (numismatics), C. Amit, E. Yannai and D. Gazit (studio photography), A. Erlich and A. Polokoff (jewelry analysis), Y. Vaknin (paleomagnetism), D. Langgut and Y. Hockema (archaeobotany), A. Spiciarich (archaeozoology), H. Kupershmidt and I. Naor (metallurgical conservation), Y. Zelinger (consultation and archaeological guidance), R. Cohen-Amin (transfer storerooms) and A. Karasik (digital documentation). Workers of the Elad Association participated in the excavation, as did students from premilitary programs and girls' high schools, student groups of the 'On Your Walls' program, and students from the universities of Bonn and Heidelberg in Germany.