The four room house: Embodying iron age Israelite society

Near Eastern Archaeology

Volumn 66, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 22-31

  Faust, Avraham ^a   Bunimovitz, Shlomo ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 60949837102     PISSN: 10942076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3210929     Document Type: Article

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