Avner Ecker
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4229935 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Avner Ecker |
| NOMBRES | Avner |
| APELLIDO | Ecker |
| FIRMA | ECKER A |
| AFILIACIONES | Bar-Ilan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0316-8629 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Iudaea/Palaestina
Iudaea/Palaestina is most prominently known as the ancient homeland of the Jewish people, the cradle of Christianity, and as a terra sancta. All these are true to an extent that can be checked in the many historical and archaeological overviews that can be found elsewhere (see e.g., Isaac 2020; Magness50 2012). This chapter is dedicated to the geography of Iudaea/Palaestina, the people that laid claim to each of its geographical units, their dive…
Diocletian oppressed the inhabitants of Paneas’ (ySheb. 9
Not a “Signet Ring” of Pontius Pilatus
Gideon Foerster’s excavations at Herodium in 1968/69 yielded a simple ring, which was published only in 2018. The inscription on the ring was read as Πιλάτο(υ), i.e., ‘of Pilate.’ Various interpretations were offered for the inscription, all generally linking the ring directly or indirectly to Pilate. This paper shows that, apart from the problematic reading, everything we know about the Roman administration in the provinces speaks against such a…
A Milestone Without a Road
A milestone located in Bet Ḥananya, below one of the arches of the Hadrianic High Aqueduct to Caesarea (Canal B), was subjected to a 3D scan. This technique enabled the reading of the inscription on the milestone and thereby, to date the stone to the period of the dual reign of Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus (161–169 CE). It also became apparent that the stone marked the fourth mile station from Caesarea. This paper suggests that the m…
A Roman army veteran in the Sepphoris necropolis
Photos from the IAA Scientific Archive (1918-48) capture an unpublished funerary inscription from Sepphoris. The inscription records a certain Gaius Iulius Paulus, veteran of the Roman army. This is the first publication of the text. It argues that within the necropoleis of predominantly Jewish cities the deceased should be considered Jewish unless proven otherwise. Consequently, it asks whether or not this veteran is a Jew, and how this inscript…
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…
The Boule of Baitolethepha (Beit-Nattif)
A clay seal from the collection of the late professor Dan Barag bears an inscription The Boule of Baitolethepha . The village of Baitolethepha (Beit-Nattif/Pella) was the administrative center of a Toparchy in Judea. This seal seems to prove that central toparchy villages, at least in Roman period Judea, had local councils called boulai and that this type of institution was not exclusive to poleis
(Ii) Interim report on the inscriptions from the aedes of the fort near Tel Shalem
Ever since the discovery of a building inscription of a vexillatio of the legio VI Ferrata near Tel Shalem, 1 it was clear that the area was a locus of Roman military activity. In the following years the vicinity of the Tel yielded the inscription of a Hadrianic arch whose letter-size is surpassed only by the lettering on the Pantheon and the Arch of Titus in Rome. 2 Most recently, the headquarters complex of the fort ( principia ), and in partic…
Juxtaposing Literary and Documentary Evidence
This article was prompted by the recent discovery of two more copies of the so-called ‘Heliodoros Stele’ from Maresha. A second one from Byblos was published in 2015. The third one, re-discovered recently and published here for the first time, also comes from Maresha. The steles bear Seleukos IV's epistolary prostagma from 178 bc to his vizier Heliodoros, and forwarded to other officials with the instruction to display it in public. It contains a…
A Roman army veteran in the Sepphoris necropolis
Photos from the IAA Scientific Archive (1918-48) capture an unpublished funerary inscription from Sepphoris. The inscription records a certain Gaius Iulius Paulus, veteran of the Roman army. This is the first publication of the text. It argues that within the necropoleis of predominantly Jewish cities the deceased should be considered Jewish unless proven otherwise. Consequently, it asks whether or not this veteran is a Jew, and how this inscript…
Juxtaposing Literary and Documentary Evidence
This article was prompted by the recent discovery of two more copies of the so-called ‘Heliodoros Stele’ from Maresha. A second one from Byblos was published in 2015. The third one, re-discovered recently and published here for the first time, also comes from Maresha. The steles bear Seleukos IV's epistolary prostagma from 178 bc to his vizier Heliodoros, and forwarded to other officials with the instruction to display it in public. It contains a…
(Ii) Interim report on the inscriptions from the aedes of the fort near Tel Shalem
Ever since the discovery of a building inscription of a vexillatio of the legio VI Ferrata near Tel Shalem, 1 it was clear that the area was a locus of Roman military activity. In the following years the vicinity of the Tel yielded the inscription of a Hadrianic arch whose letter-size is surpassed only by the lettering on the Pantheon and the Arch of Titus in Rome. 2 Most recently, the headquarters complex of the fort ( principia ), and in partic…
The Boule of Baitolethepha (Beit-Nattif)
A clay seal from the collection of the late professor Dan Barag bears an inscription The Boule of Baitolethepha . The village of Baitolethepha (Beit-Nattif/Pella) was the administrative center of a Toparchy in Judea. This seal seems to prove that central toparchy villages, at least in Roman period Judea, had local councils called boulai and that this type of institution was not exclusive to poleis
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…
A Roman army veteran in the Sepphoris necropolis
Photos from the IAA Scientific Archive (1918-48) capture an unpublished funerary inscription from Sepphoris. The inscription records a certain Gaius Iulius Paulus, veteran of the Roman army. This is the first publication of the text. It argues that within the necropoleis of predominantly Jewish cities the deceased should be considered Jewish unless proven otherwise. Consequently, it asks whether or not this veteran is a Jew, and how this inscript…
Not a “Signet Ring” of Pontius Pilatus
Gideon Foerster’s excavations at Herodium in 1968/69 yielded a simple ring, which was published only in 2018. The inscription on the ring was read as Πιλάτο(υ), i.e., ‘of Pilate.’ Various interpretations were offered for the inscription, all generally linking the ring directly or indirectly to Pilate. This paper shows that, apart from the problematic reading, everything we know about the Roman administration in the provinces speaks against such a…
A Milestone Without a Road
A milestone located in Bet Ḥananya, below one of the arches of the Hadrianic High Aqueduct to Caesarea (Canal B), was subjected to a 3D scan. This technique enabled the reading of the inscription on the milestone and thereby, to date the stone to the period of the dual reign of Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus (161–169 CE). It also became apparent that the stone marked the fourth mile station from Caesarea. This paper suggests that the m…
Iudaea/Palaestina
Iudaea/Palaestina is most prominently known as the ancient homeland of the Jewish people, the cradle of Christianity, and as a terra sancta. All these are true to an extent that can be checked in the many historical and archaeological overviews that can be found elsewhere (see e.g., Isaac 2020; Magness50 2012). This chapter is dedicated to the geography of Iudaea/Palaestina, the people that laid claim to each of its geographical units, their dive…
Diocletian oppressed the inhabitants of Paneas’ (ySheb. 9
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