Sabine Kleiman

Biographic Data

ID4639482
NAMESabine Kleiman
GIVEN NAMESSabine
FAMILY NAMEKleiman
SIGNATUREKLEIMAN S
AFFILIATIONSTel Aviv University
ORCID0000-0002-6841-8281
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS9
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Reevaluating Calcite‐Alabaster Production in the Southern Levant

    Open AccessJennifer Zimni, Nadya Teutsch et al.ARTICLEArchaeometry2026

    Calcite‐Alabaster vessels found in the Southern Levant during the Bronze Age have traditionally been considered Egyptian imports. This assumption was recently challenged by the discovery of a Bronze Age quarry in the Te'omim Cave. This study investigated six Calcite‐Alabaster objects from Tel Azekah, including two drill cores, to determine raw material provenance and reassess regional production processes. Stable carbon (δ 13 C) and oxygen (δ 18 …

  • A Hieratic Inscribed Jar from the Late Bronze/Iron Age Transition at Tel Azekah

    Open AccessDamian Sweeney, Stefan Jakob Wimmer et al.ARTICLETel Aviv2026

  • A mass grave of young children and infants from the Persian period in Tel Azekah and its importance for the understanding of burial practices of unweaned infants

    Open AccessOded Lipschits, Annika Hauser et al.ARTICLEPalestine Exploration Quarterly2026References: 5

    During the excavations at Tel Azekah, a cistern was discovered on the tell’s lower plateau containing the remains of a minimum of 68 individuals, almost all of whom were infants and young children. The osteological analysis revealed that approximately 90% of the individuals were under five years of age, 70% even less than two years old. The burial seems to be primary, and the deposition of the remains was dated to the Persian period (ca. 5th cent…

  • Interrelated communities of practice in the Late Bronze Age southern Levant

    Open AccessSabine KleimanARTICLELevant2025

    This study explores knowledge transmission between communities of practice in the Late Bronze Age southern Levant, with particular attention to the pottery-making communities of the Judean Shephelah. The analysis focuses on bowls, employing petrography, techno-stylistic analysis and typology on a total of 66 complete specimens. Tel Azekah serves as the central case study, and the results are compared to assemblages from Tell eṣ-Ṣafi/Gath, Lachish…

  • Shedding a Concealed Light

    Open AccessIdo Koch, Sabine Kleiman et al.ARTICLETel Aviv2025Cited by: 1References: 32

    In this contribution, we examine the custom of depositing lamps concealed between two bowls in a practice that became prevalent in the Southern Levant during the Late Bronze Age and persisted into the early Iron Age. Through meticulous examination of eleven such deposits unearthed at Tel Azekah, we elucidate the chronological evolution of this practice and its constituent elements. This investigation prompts a discussion of the role of the practi…

  • Qurayyah Painted Ware Outside the Hejaz

    Open AccessAssaf Kleiman, Sabine Kleiman et al.ARTICLEOxford Journal of Archaeology2024References: 43

    Qurayyah Painted Ware (QPW) is the most solid evidence of contacts between the Hejaz and the southern Levant in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages. However, even after decades of research, there is still much uncertainty regarding the chronology of these contacts and their nature. Here, we present an exceptionally rich collection of QPW fragments documented recently in the copper smelting sites of the Timna Valley. We argue that the distribution…

  • Potters in Transition

    Sabine KleimanARTICLEAltorientalische Forschungen2021

    For many years, the Late Bronze/Iron Age transition in the southern Levant has been the subject of intense debates concerning chronological matters and cultural developments. Ceramic studies were often the focal point of the discussion, but they usually concentrated on the appearance of Aegean-style pottery in the southern Coastal Plain and the nearby Shephelah, while largely disregarding the indigenous pottery tradition. In this paper, I study t…

  • The Iron IIB Gate Shrine at Lachish

    Sabine KleimanARTICLETel Aviv2020References: 3

    The remains of a shrine located in the Iron IIB six-chamber gate at Lachish were recently published by Ganor and Kreimerman (2019). The excavators proposed that the chamber had a hierarchical layout comparable to that of the Arad sanctuary, and that the shrine and its cult furnishings had been desecrated in the course of Hezekiah’s cult reform. However, a critical re-evaluation of the published data indicates that (1) the inner plan of the chambe…

  • Preliminary Radiocarbon Results for Late Bronze Age Strata at Tel Azekah and Their Implications

    Open AccessLyndelle C Webster, Omer Sergi et al.ARTICLERadiocarbon2018Cited by: 3References: 37

    This article presents the first radiocarbon ( 14 C) results from the Late Bronze Age levels of Tel Azekah (Israel). The results testify to the long and prosperous occupation of the site during this period, commencing at least in LB IIA and ending with a severe destruction at the close of LB III. In the extra-mural quarter (Area S2), a pre-monumental building phase (S2-6) dates to the 14th or early 13th century BCE. Two sub-phases of a public buil…

  • Metalworkers’ Material Culture in the Early Iron Age Levant

    Sabine Kleiman, Assaf Kleiman et al.ARTICLETel Aviv2017Cited by: 5References: 9

    The article deals with a rich ceramic assemblage retrieved during the survey and excavations of Site 34 (Slaves’ Hill) in the Timna Valley. Two main aspects of the assemblage are discussed: (1) its contribution to determining the relative and absolute chronology of the copper production sites in the Timna Valley (e.g., Sites 2, 30 and 200); and (2) the daily life of metalworkers (copper smelters) in the early Iron Age as reflected in their materi…