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Annette Landes-Nagar
Israel Antiquities Authority
Judea and Samaria staff officer
PhD graduate student
Bar-Ilan University
Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology
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Paz Y. and Landes-Nagar A. 2022. A Sixth-Fifth Millennia BCE Stone Stamp Seal from Khirbet Harsis, Judean Shephelah, Israel. Neo-Lithics 22: 27-32
Neo-Lithics 22:27-32
Introduction. Horned Animals in Glyptic Art from the Ancient Near East Horned animals were very c...
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Introduction. Horned Animals in Glyptic Art from the Ancient Near East Horned animals were very commonly depicted in glyptic art of the Ancient Near East from the 7 th to the 3 rd millennia BCE. These animals include both domesticated and wild species and were often accompanied by additional elements e.g., other animals, human figures and various emblems that were often called "space fillers". The current paper discusses a stone stamp seal that was found during a salvage excavation at Khirbet Harsis (Sha'ar Ha-Gāy) in the Judean Shephelah of Israel. The seal depicts a crouching ibex and associated lentoid and triangular emblems. We believe they represent the symbolic realms of the Late Neolithic-Early Chalcolithic with their cultural and social aspects. Horned wild animals, such as gazelles, antelopes, and ibexes, are the stamp seals' main features at sites
Habas L. and Landes-Nagar A. 2022. A Roman Marble Sculpture Base from the Old City of Jerusalem
ARAM 34: 1&2 (2022), 271-292
Kool R. and Landes-Nagar A. 2023. A Unique Crusader-Period Lead Seal from the Old City of Jerusalem
Atiqot 110: 229-239.
A unique lead seal of the Byzantine Patriarch of Jerusalem, Leontios II (1176-1184/85), was disco...
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A unique lead seal of the Byzantine Patriarch of Jerusalem, Leontios II (1176-1184/85), was discovered in a salvage excavation in Jerusalem's Old City. This is the first seal of this patriarch to have been found, confirming the sojourn of Leontios II to the Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1177-1178. It also sheds new light on the attempts of the Byzantine emperor, Manuel I Komnenos, to maintain his influence over the reigning Jerusalem dynasty.
Landes-Nagar A. 2021. Excavations at Gloria Hotel, near Jaffa Gate Jerusalem: Building Remains from the Early Roman, Late Byzantine, Crusader-Ayyubid and Ottoman Periods (Hebrew)
New Studies in the Archaeology of Jerusalem and Its Region 14: 309-324
Nagar A. 2010. Archaeological Exhibitions at Kibbutz Beit Guvrin (Hebrew)
Teva Hadvarim 178: 112-113
Nagar A. 2007. Kikar Zahal, Jerusalem: 19th Century French Monastery of the Sisters of Mary Reparatrix (Hebrew)
New Studies in the Archaeology of Jerusalem and its Region. Vol. 1: 135-136
Bar-Nathan, R., Zilberbod, I., Landes-Nagar, A., Di Segni, L. and Taxel, I. 2020. Moẓa in the First Centuries CE: On the Identification and Nature of Roman Colonia.
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Itamar Taxel
and
Annette Landes-Nagar
The Mega Project at Motza (Moẓa): The Neolithic and Later Occupations up to the 20th Century. Jerusalem.
, 2020
Landes-Nagar A. 2020. Sha'ar HaGai (Kh. Harsis) - An Iron Age 2 Settlement and a Byzantine and Ottoman Road Station (Hebrew)
Segula 119: 38-49
Sha'ar Hagai (Kh. Harsis) functioned as a Road Station in ancient times due to the location of th...
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Sha'ar Hagai (Kh. Harsis) functioned as a Road Station in ancient times due to the location of the site at the gate way of Wady Nahshon ascending to Jerusalem. In the Late Ottoman Period a Khan and a military watch tower were built at the site and can be seen besides road no, 1. Excavations at the site undertaken by the author on behalf of the Israel Antiquity Authority  revealed an Iron Age 2 Settlement and a Byzantine Road Station featuring  a Bath-house.
Finkielsztejn G., Landes-Nagar A. and Billig Y. 2009. The Northwestern Corner of Jerusalem's Old City Wall: Medieval Archaeology and Modern History. New Studies in the Archaeology of Jerusalem and its Regions, Vol III: *5-*9
The Settlement Pattern along the Emmaus- Kiryat Ye’arim -Jerusalem Road: In Light of New Archaeological Evidence from the 2nd century BCE until the 2nd century CE (Hebrew).
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Daniel Ein- Mor
Benyamin Storchan
, and
Annette Landes-Nagar
Studies on the Land of Judea
, 2019
Landes-Nagar A. 2018. A Byzantine Church near Beit Neqofa along the Ancient Road Between Jaffa and Jerusalem. Aram 30, 1&2: 25-44
Aram 30: 1&2 : 25-44.
, 2018
Nagar A. 2016. A Byzantine Church near Bet Nekofa along the road from Jaffa to Jerusalem. New Studies in the Archaeology of Jerusalem and its Regions, Vol. 10. pp. 197-211 (Hebrew)
New Studies in the Archaeology of Jerusalem and its Region, Vol. 10
, 2016
Secondary Burial and Bone Collection in 'Daroma' after the Second Temple Period. An Archaeological Perspective (Heb. version)
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Yuval Baruch
and
Annette Landes-Nagar
Secondary Burial and Bone Collection in 'Daroma' after the Second Temple Period. An Archaeologica...
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Secondary Burial and Bone Collection in 'Daroma' after the Second Temple Period. An Archaeological Perspective
Yuval Baruch and Annette Landes-Nagar
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After the Second Temple's destruction and even more after the failure of the Bar Kokhba revolt, the inner Jewish theological dispute about the belief in personal resurrection came to an end. It then became a significant principle in Judaism and a common custom.
Despite this, the number of ossuaries found until today in the 'Daroma' region (southern Judea) dated to the Late Roman Period is very limited compared with hundreds of ossuaries found in that same area from the Second Temple Period.
The later ossuaries manufactured in the 'Daroma' were made of hard limestone. Some of them were simple, while others were richly ornamented. Simultaneously, or possibly somewhat later, special types of ossuaries begun to appear, shaped with a Roman sarcophagi lid. Those ossuaries are known as the South Ossuaries or the Sarcophagi-like ossuaries.
Even though the later ossuary types are relatively rare – of which only a few dozen has been discovered, they can be used as an important chronological characteristic of the Late Roman Period in the ''Daroma'' district. Furthermore, they may represent the settlement character and its continuity in the 'Daroma' after the Second Temple's destruction.
During the Byzantine period, and in particular after the 5th century CE, the use of ossuaries among the Jewish population in Israel, completely disappears: not only in the 'Daroma' region, but all over the country.
In our view, the reason for the disappearance of the ossuaries is related to the Christian-Jewish controversy.
Landes-Nagar A. 2015. Reconsidering the Date of the 2nd Temple Period 'Qumeran Type' Graves in Beit Safafa, Jerusalem to the Late Roman Period in Light of the Renewed Excavations Between the Years 2013-2014 (Hebrew).
New Studies on Jerusalem, Vol. 21, (Hebrew): 221-235
, 2015
Between the years 2013-2014 four seasons of salvage excavations were conducted at an ancient cem...
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Between the years  2013-2014 four seasons of salvage excavations were conducted at an ancient cemetery on the western margins of the village of Beit Safafa, Jerusalem due to the construction of High way 4 . The excavation uncovered sealed rock-hewn graves dated to the Late Roman Period, 3rd-4th Century CE based on the findings in them. This dating disputes the previous dating of the cemetery by Zissu B. and Moyal H. to the 2nd temple period  and the buried to the  Essene's Community.
2013 The Excavations Outside New Gate (the Light Train Track) After Three Years of Study New Studies On Jerusalem 19
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Gerald Finkielsztejn
and
Annette Landes-Nagar
Introduction In 2010, I submitted a presentation to the 16 th meeting on New Studies on Jerusalem...
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Introduction In 2010, I submitted a presentation to the 16 th meeting on New Studies on Jerusalem about the excavations outside New Gate undertaken as probes ahead of the construction of the rails of Jerusalem Light Train undertaken in 2008-2010. The focus was mainly on the main 19 th century CE building in the area and its connection with the War of Israel Independence, in 1948. The article was published in the acts (Finkielsztejn et al. 2010), but I did not deliver my lecture at the conference due to the flu that hit me the evening before. The study of the buildings and of the material during the ensuing three years produced new documents (mostly pictures) and a better understanding of the finds and of aspects of the history of the area. The results are presented here. It should be noted that both articles are to be taken into account together, and their illustrations complement each other. For the location of the buildings described below, see Finkielsztejn et al. 2010: Figs 1 and 2.
2010 The Convent Outside the New Gate that Saved West Jerusalem (1894-1948) New Studies On Jerusalem 16
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Gerald Finkielsztejn
and
Annette Landes-Nagar
Excavation Reports by Annette Landes-Nagar
Landes-Nagar A. 2025. The old City of Jerusalem, Bet Ha Bad Street. Remains of the Byzantine Cardo and Mamluk Installations
Hadashot Arkheologiyot 137
directed by A. Landes-Nagar (probes and field photography), with the assistance of V. Essman (sur...
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directed by A. Landes-Nagar (probes and field photography), with the assistance of V. Essman (surveying and drafting), A. Peretz (field photography), S. Cohen (wet sieving), O. Zakaim (location map and plan), S. Terem (Byzantine-period pottery), E.J. Stern (Crusader-Ayyubid, Mamluk and Ottoman pottery finds), A. Shapiro (Beirut Wares), A. Karasik (pottery scanning), Y. Gorin-Rosen (glass), A. Varnai-Ganor and R. Lewis-Bloom (glass restoration), I. Lidsky-Reznikov (glass drawing), R. Kool and D.T. Ariel (numismatics), D. Gazit (studio photography), I. Peters (analytical laboratory), I. Taxel (consultancy) and workers from an employment agency company. Bet Ha-Bad Street retains the route of the Roman-and Byzantine-period Western Cardo, and has been one of the main streets of the Old City of Jerusalem ever since. The shop in which the excavation was undertaken is in a segment of the street close to the summit of a spur bordered by the Tyropoeon Valley to the east and by the Transversal Valley to the south. Three occupation strata (III-I) were uncovered in the excavation area (3.6 × 12.0 m, max. depth excavated down to bedrock c. 0.85 m; 754 m asl; Figs. 2-4): in Stratum III, the paving of the Byzantine-period Cardo was uncovered (sixth century CE); in Stratum II were the remains of construction from the Mamluk period (thirteenth-fifteenth century CE); and in Stratum I, the foundations of the presentday shop walls were uncovered (nineteenth-twentieth centuries CE). The paving stones of the shop were removed prior to the excavation, and a longitudinal trial trench (depth c. 0.5 m) was manually excavated. It became evident that a longitudinal terracotta sewage pipe, probably dating to the British Mandate time, and a plastic sewage pipe Annette Landes-Nagar 09/09/2025
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Three distinct occupation strata observed, with Byzantine, Mamluk, and modern constructions, suggesting cultural transitions over centuries.
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Landes-Nagar A. 2024. Excavations at Motza near Jerusalem: A Roman Settlement Between the First and Second Jewish Revolts (70-132 CE)
Hadashot Arkheologiyot 136
Moza, Area J During April-August 2017, a trial excavation was conducted to the south of the Moza ...
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Moza, Area J During April-August 2017, a trial excavation was conducted to the south of the Moza bend on the former route of Highway 1 (Area J; Permit No. A-7987; map ref. 215550/633255; Fig. 1) prior to the construction of Highway 16, the rerouting of Highway 1 and the construction of a bridge. The excavations, undertaken by the Israel Antiquities Authority and financed by the Netivei Israel Company, were directed by A. Landes-Nagar (field photography, Marseille roof tiles), with the assistance of R. Chalaf (administration), R. Fister (area supervision), H. Khalaily (mega projects), V. Essman (surveying and drafting), E. Delerzon (location map and plans), A. Peretz (field photography), A. Wiegmann (aerial photography), S. Terem, Y. Rapuano and Y. Milevsky (pottery), Y. Gorin-Rosen and R. Lewis-Bloom (glass), I. Lidsky-Reznikov (digital documentation and finds drawing), K. Amit and D. Gazit (studio photography), L. Kupershmidt and I. Reznitsky (metallurgical laboratory), V. Nosikovsky (organic laboratory), G. Bijovsky and D.T. Ariel (numismatics), N. Marom (archaeozoology), I. Ktalav (malacology), R. Rosenthal-Heginbottom (identification of the goddess Victoria and fibula inscription), A. De Groot (warrior figurine), A. Paz (warrior figurine, mace head and stamped pottery handle), N. Weiler (mace-head stone identification), A. de Vincenz (pottery from the later periods), O. Shamir (pottery spindle whorl), B. Storchan (hobnail identification), N. Bashukevich (photo archive) and K. Arbiv, S. Mizrahi, Z. Matskevich, O. Chalaf and Y. Billig (probe trenches), as well as laborers from East Jerusalem and students from Boyer High School in Jerusalem. The excavation area extended westward from Nahal Soreq, beside the ancient main road that led eastward to Jerusalem until recent times. Many trial and salvage excavations have been conducted at the nearby Tel Moza and to its south, particularly during the past decade (as part of the mega project excavations) that document a settlement sequence dating from the Epipaleolithic period to the present day (Greenhut
Landes-Nagar A. 2023. Kh. Bet Telem, Survey: A ruin, Springs and a British Mandate Water System
Hadashot Arkheologiyot 135
, a survey was conducted at Horbat Bet Telem and its surroundings (Permit No. A-5302; map ref. 21...
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, a survey was conducted at Horbat Bet Telem and its surroundings (Permit No. A-5302; map ref. 216360-429/634636-716; Fig. 1), as part of development works by the Israel Nature and Parks Authority (INPA). The survey, on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, was directed by A. Landes-Nagar (field photography), with the assistance of A. Hajian and M. Kipnis (surveying and drafting), O. Zakaim (plans), D. Levy (GPS), the Griffin company (aerial photography), D. Amit (guidance), M. Avissar (pottery), N. Ze'evi and Y. Barschak (photographic archive), A. Rochman-Halperin (IAA archive) and workers of the INPA. The surveyed area (c. 75 dunams) comprises a ruin and springs. It extends over the flank of a spur sloping southeast to the Arazim Valley and Nahal Soreq. At the bottom of the spur, where Nahal Luz and Nahal Soreq converge, are three springs ('Enot Telem) comprising three rock-cut tunnels and rock-cut and built water systems. The majority of the ruin's structures are located on the upper parts of the spur, about 120 m southwest of the springs. The slope is covered in farming terraces that integrate ancient wall segments and ancient building stones in secondary use. The site and its surroundings were surveyed in the past (Archive of the Department of
Landes-Nagar A. 2023. Bet Neqofa (South): A Late Roman-Byzantine Settlement-a Farmstead, an Insudtrial Winery, Structures and a Kiln
Hadashot Arkheologiyot 135
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Excavation revealed prehistoric flint items and pottery from Hasmonean and Early Roman periods, highlighting significant human activity.
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