Foreword
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Name, Location, History of Research and Historical Context (Michael G. Hasel and Yosef Garfinkel)
1.1. The Name Socoh
1.2. The Location of Socoh in the Shephelah
1.3. Socoh in Textual Sources
1.4. The Significance of Socoh
1.5. A History of Archaeological Research
Chapter 2: Survey Methodology, Objectives and Fieldwork (Michael G. Hasel and Yosef Garfinkel)
2.1. A History of Survey Methodology
2.2. The Socoh Survey
Chapter 3: Ceramic Typology, Distribution and Chronology (Shifra Weiss)
3.1. Methodology of the Ceramic Analysis
3.2. Early Periods
3.3. Iron Age Typology
3.4. Iron Age Ceramic Distribution
3.5. Classical Periods
3.6. Islamic Periods
3.7. Two Tomb Assemblages
3.8. General Distribution Analysis
Chapter 4: Looted Burial Caves (Alon De Groot, Alla Nagorsky and Rafael Lewis)
4.1. Description of the Looted Burial Caves
4.2. The Pottery Collected from Cave 4
4.3. The Pottery Collected from Cave 1
4.4. The Pottery Collected from Cave 2
4.5. The Pottery Collected from Cave 3
4.6. Discussion
Chapter 5: Petrographic Analysis of Iron Age Ceramics (David Ben-Shlomo)
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Methodology of Petrographic Analysis
5.3. Geological and Pedological Setting
5.4. Petrographic Results
5.5. Discussion and Conclusions
Chapter 6: Pyrotechnical Production Activity: Slag Distribution and Analysis (Yosef Garfinkel and Shifra Weiss)
6.1. Introduction
6.2. Description of the Slag
6.3. Distribution of the Slag
6.4. Discussion
Chapter 7: Royal Jar Handles with lmlk and Private Seal Impressions (Michael G. Hasel and Yosef Garfinkel)
7.1. The Zaphan/Abima’az Seal Impression
7.2. The Two-Winged lmlk Seal Impression
Chapter 8: Discussion and Conclusions (Michael G. Hasel, Yosef Garfinkel and Shifra Weiss)
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