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Hellenistic Discoveries at Tel Dor, Israel
- Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens
- American School of Classical Studies at Athens
- Volume 72, Number 2, April-June 2003
- pp. 121-145
- 10.2972/hesp.2003.72.2.121
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Abstract:
This article is a preliminary publication of a series of finds made in 2000 at Tel Dor, Israel, during excavations sponsored jointly by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of California at Berkeley. A limestone Nike and a group of architectural fragments are conjectured to come from a 3rd- or early-2nd-century Doric temple or propylon. Fragments of a superb theatrical mosaic or mosaics in the opus vermiculatum technique are attributed to an andron or oecus and are compared with mosaics from late-3rd-century Alexandria and 2nd-century Delos, Pergamon, Rhodes, and Pompeii. The finds suggest the presence of a sophisticated Hellenized community at Hellenistic Dor.