The Iron IIA Judahite Temple at Tel MozaFootnote

¹This article is a partial synopsis of a thesis recently submitted by the author to Prof. Tallay Ornan and Dr. Doron Ben-Ami of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. I would like to thank my colleagues in this project, Zvi Greenhut, Hamudi Khalaily and Anna Eirikh, for entrusting me with the publication of the temple and its artefacts.

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