A Hiding Complex and Ritual Bath (Miqveh) at Ḥorvat Maskana and the Question of Their Use in the Byzantine Period

Figures & data

Figure 1. Map of Ḥorvat Maskana and sites with hiding complexes.

Figure 2. Plan of the Hiding Complex.

Figure 3. The area around Ḥorvat Maskana. (Photography M. Osband).

Figure 4. The hiding complex tunnel. (Photography Y. Shivtiel).

Figure 5. Hiding complex cavity B. (Photography Y. Shivtiel).

Figure 6. Plastered stairs of the miqveh. (Photography Y. Tor).

Figure 7. Plastered wall and pool at the bottom of the miqveh. (Photography Y. Shivtiel).

Figure 8. Selected pottery from Ḥorvat Maskana 1 hiding complex and miqveh³. (Drawn by Alexander Iermolin).

Table 1. Pottery Table for Figure 8.

Pottery Figure	Location	Parallel and Dating
1 Storage Jar	Miqveh, Locus 100, B.1000a	Loffreda 2008, 133–34, ANF 20; Early and Middle Byzantine
2 Storage Jar	Miqveh, Locus 100, B.1000b	Loffreda 2008, 133–34, ANF 20; Early and Middle Byzantine
3 Bottom of Cypriot Red Slip Bowl	Miqveh, Locus 100, B.1000e	Possibly form LRD (CRS) 2, Hayes 1972, 373–76, mid-5th– early 6th centuries ce
4 Casserole	Hiding Complex, Locus 201, B.2002a	Leibner 2018, 310, KH Casserole Form 3a/b (rim fragment too small to attribute to Form KH3a or KH3b); Roman period, likely 2nd–3rd century ce
5 Cooking Pot	Hiding Complex, Locus 201, B.2002b	Loffreda 2008, 191, Pent 15; Middle to Late Byzantine

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