Palace and village, paradise and oblivion: Unraveling the Riddles of Ramat Rahel

Near Eastern Archaeology

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-49

  Lipschits, Oded ^a   Gadot, Yuval ^b   Arubas, Benjamin ^c   Oeming, Manfred ^d  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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EID: 84867758465     PISSN: 10942076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5615/neareastarch.74.1.0002     Document Type: Article

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