Pablo Betzer
Biographic Data
| ID | 4048175 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pablo Betzer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pablo |
| FAMILY NAME | Betzer |
| SIGNATURE | BETZER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Israel Antiquities Authority |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-4592-1593 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Rock-Cut “Bowties” of Yavne, Israel
In the course of salvage excavations southwest of Tel Yavne, remains from three distinct periods were uncovered. The earliest stratum, dating to the Intermediate Bronze Age, held 68 shaft tombs. Three of these tombs were later expanded and reused as burial caves during the late Hellenistic to late Roman periods, containing artifacts such as cooking pots, unguentaria, and glass vessels. In the final stratum of the Late Ottoman and British Mandate …
An ‘Assyro-Levantine’ Stamp Seal with a Worship Scene Found near Tel Yavne
The city of Yavne is located in the southern Coastal Plain, ca. 15 km from Ashdod and ca. 40 km from Ashkelon. During an extensive archaeological excavation conducted approximately 200 m east of Tel Yavne, a large-scale pottery-production site was uncovered within layers dating to the Iron IIC (7th century BCE). A limestone seal depicting a human figure alongside symbols of worship was discovered on a working surface. This paper analyses the reli…
Geochemical investigation of Late Roman glass and available raw material at the industrial complex of Tel Yavne, Israel
A Late Roman primary-glass production site was discovered near Tel Yavne, Israel, within a large Late Roman-Byzantine industrial complex. Due to its location near several sandy quartz-rich deposits, the site offers a unique opportunity to simultaneously investigate natron glass production and raw material sourcing in the southern Levant. The glass and the nearby sand deposits were investigated using grain-size, mineralogy, detailed chemical compo…
Identifying buried byzantine-early Islamic agricultural soils in the Yavne Hinterlands, Israel
Yavne in the Hellenistic Period
From ancient times to the present day, Yavne has been an important center for several ancient cultures, a fact reflected in numerous archaeological excavations conducted throughout the modern city and its surroundings. Yavne was inhabited and flourished in nearly every period from the Late Chalcolithic to the modern era. This article focuses on the Hellenistic period, combining analysis of ancient sources, historical research, and the results of …
Roman Burial Caves South of Tel Yavneh and Roman Iamnia Town Limits
This study examines two clusters of Roman burial caves located approximately 1 km south of Tel Yavneh, forming part of a necropolis on the town’s southern perimeter. The first cluster, excavated in 1962 on Beth Gamliel hill, comprises eight rock-cut caves of loculi and arcosolia types, while the second, uncovered in 2022 in Area D, includes three caves adapted from earlier Intermediate Bronze Age shaft tombs. Analysis of architectural features, s…
A New Type of Late Roman-Period Tomb from Yavne (East)
The large-scale trial and salvage excavations at Yavne (East) uncovered the remains of seven different Roman-period burial grounds, exhibiting various burial types, including infant jar burials, simple unlined and stone-lined cist tombs, sarcophagi, a vault tomb and a mausoleum.This article focuses on a newly identified Roman-period tomb type termed "side-accessed cist tomb," the plan of which includes a horizontal entrance, a built facade and a …
A Settlement and Two Mausolea from the Roman Period at Khirbat Umm edh-Dhiyab, Ramat Bet Shemesh
Researching Chalcolithic Ivories from the Southern Levant
The Late Chalcolithic period in the Southern Levant, mainly the Ghassulian culture (mid-fifth–mid-fourth millennia BCE), heralded a new and unique trajectory in craft specialization, with ivory objects, including figurines, tools and vessels, among the outstanding ones. Hippopotamus and elephant ivory, probably of varied geographic provenience, were the raw materials employed. This paper presents two recently excavated ivory caches from the Late …
The Late Chalcolithic site of Yavne East
Gaia Cecconi, גאיה צ'קוני, غايا تشيكّوني, Pablo Betzer, פבלו בצר, بابلو بتسر, Daniel Varga, דניאל ורגה, دانيئيل فَرْغَا, Ianir Milevski, יניר מילבסקי, ويانير ميلِفْْسكي, The Late Chalcolithic site of Yavne East - התקופה הכלקוליתית המאוחרת ביבנה מזרח, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך נ"ה (2025), pp. 129-156
Spindle Whorls from the Chalcolithic Village of Yavne East
During the excavation seasons of 2021–2024 at the site of Yavne East, fifty-three spindle whorls have been recovered in areas Q and R2-4. Most of them date to the Late Chalcolithic Period (Ghassulian culture), while a few others to the Middle Bronze Age and Persian-Hellenistic-period. The preliminary study of the Chalcolithic assemblage revealed interesting new data about the textile industry carried out in the site of Yavne East and the southern…
Life on The Soreq Riverbank
Yael Abadi-Reiss, יעל עבאדי-רייס, Jenny Marcus, ג'ני מרכוס, Chen Elimelech, חן אלימלך, Lee Perry-Gal, לי פרי גל, Inbar Ktalav, ענבר קטלב, Oren Akermann, אורן אקרמן, Yotam Asscher, יותם אשר, Pablo Betzer, פבלו בצר, Daniel Varga, דניאל וורגה, Life On the Soreq Riverbank - חיים על גדת נחל שורק, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך נ"ב (2022), pp. 32-51
Four New Burial Inscriptions and a Survey of the Nessana Necropolis
Workers of the Israel Nature and Parks Authority discovered two Byzantine Period, Christian, tombstones written in Greek on limestone slabs south east of the mound of the ancient city of Nessana. One of the stone slabs is a nearly complete top of an anthropomorphic stele bearing the epitaph of a woman named Maria dated to the last decade of the 6th century. This discovery led P. Betzer at the head of a team of IAA archaeologists to conduct a dron…
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Four New Burial Inscriptions and a Survey of the Nessana Necropolis
Workers of the Israel Nature and Parks Authority discovered two Byzantine Period, Christian, tombstones written in Greek on limestone slabs south east of the mound of the ancient city of Nessana. One of the stone slabs is a nearly complete top of an anthropomorphic stele bearing the epitaph of a woman named Maria dated to the last decade of the 6th century. This discovery led P. Betzer at the head of a team of IAA archaeologists to conduct a dron…
Life on The Soreq Riverbank
Yael Abadi-Reiss, יעל עבאדי-רייס, Jenny Marcus, ג'ני מרכוס, Chen Elimelech, חן אלימלך, Lee Perry-Gal, לי פרי גל, Inbar Ktalav, ענבר קטלב, Oren Akermann, אורן אקרמן, Yotam Asscher, יותם אשר, Pablo Betzer, פבלו בצר, Daniel Varga, דניאל וורגה, Life On the Soreq Riverbank - חיים על גדת נחל שורק, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך נ"ב (2022), pp. 32-51
Yavne in the Hellenistic Period
From ancient times to the present day, Yavne has been an important center for several ancient cultures, a fact reflected in numerous archaeological excavations conducted throughout the modern city and its surroundings. Yavne was inhabited and flourished in nearly every period from the Late Chalcolithic to the modern era. This article focuses on the Hellenistic period, combining analysis of ancient sources, historical research, and the results of …
Roman Burial Caves South of Tel Yavneh and Roman Iamnia Town Limits
This study examines two clusters of Roman burial caves located approximately 1 km south of Tel Yavneh, forming part of a necropolis on the town’s southern perimeter. The first cluster, excavated in 1962 on Beth Gamliel hill, comprises eight rock-cut caves of loculi and arcosolia types, while the second, uncovered in 2022 in Area D, includes three caves adapted from earlier Intermediate Bronze Age shaft tombs. Analysis of architectural features, s…
A New Type of Late Roman-Period Tomb from Yavne (East)
The large-scale trial and salvage excavations at Yavne (East) uncovered the remains of seven different Roman-period burial grounds, exhibiting various burial types, including infant jar burials, simple unlined and stone-lined cist tombs, sarcophagi, a vault tomb and a mausoleum.This article focuses on a newly identified Roman-period tomb type termed "side-accessed cist tomb," the plan of which includes a horizontal entrance, a built facade and a …
A Settlement and Two Mausolea from the Roman Period at Khirbat Umm edh-Dhiyab, Ramat Bet Shemesh
Researching Chalcolithic Ivories from the Southern Levant
The Late Chalcolithic period in the Southern Levant, mainly the Ghassulian culture (mid-fifth–mid-fourth millennia BCE), heralded a new and unique trajectory in craft specialization, with ivory objects, including figurines, tools and vessels, among the outstanding ones. Hippopotamus and elephant ivory, probably of varied geographic provenience, were the raw materials employed. This paper presents two recently excavated ivory caches from the Late …
The Late Chalcolithic site of Yavne East
Gaia Cecconi, גאיה צ'קוני, غايا تشيكّوني, Pablo Betzer, פבלו בצר, بابلو بتسر, Daniel Varga, דניאל ורגה, دانيئيل فَرْغَا, Ianir Milevski, יניר מילבסקי, ويانير ميلِفْْسكي, The Late Chalcolithic site of Yavne East - התקופה הכלקוליתית המאוחרת ביבנה מזרח, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך נ"ה (2025), pp. 129-156
Spindle Whorls from the Chalcolithic Village of Yavne East
During the excavation seasons of 2021–2024 at the site of Yavne East, fifty-three spindle whorls have been recovered in areas Q and R2-4. Most of them date to the Late Chalcolithic Period (Ghassulian culture), while a few others to the Middle Bronze Age and Persian-Hellenistic-period. The preliminary study of the Chalcolithic assemblage revealed interesting new data about the textile industry carried out in the site of Yavne East and the southern…
Rock-Cut “Bowties” of Yavne, Israel
In the course of salvage excavations southwest of Tel Yavne, remains from three distinct periods were uncovered. The earliest stratum, dating to the Intermediate Bronze Age, held 68 shaft tombs. Three of these tombs were later expanded and reused as burial caves during the late Hellenistic to late Roman periods, containing artifacts such as cooking pots, unguentaria, and glass vessels. In the final stratum of the Late Ottoman and British Mandate …
An ‘Assyro-Levantine’ Stamp Seal with a Worship Scene Found near Tel Yavne
The city of Yavne is located in the southern Coastal Plain, ca. 15 km from Ashdod and ca. 40 km from Ashkelon. During an extensive archaeological excavation conducted approximately 200 m east of Tel Yavne, a large-scale pottery-production site was uncovered within layers dating to the Iron IIC (7th century BCE). A limestone seal depicting a human figure alongside symbols of worship was discovered on a working surface. This paper analyses the reli…
Geochemical investigation of Late Roman glass and available raw material at the industrial complex of Tel Yavne, Israel
A Late Roman primary-glass production site was discovered near Tel Yavne, Israel, within a large Late Roman-Byzantine industrial complex. Due to its location near several sandy quartz-rich deposits, the site offers a unique opportunity to simultaneously investigate natron glass production and raw material sourcing in the southern Levant. The glass and the nearby sand deposits were investigated using grain-size, mineralogy, detailed chemical compo…
Identifying buried byzantine-early Islamic agricultural soils in the Yavne Hinterlands, Israel
Archaeology and Historical Studies (10 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (7 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (6 works) · Bronze Age (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Chalcolithic (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Ancient Near East History (4 works) · Excavation (4 works) · History (4 works)