Khirbet ῾Asafira; Khirbet ῾Asfura Complete

Description

A Samaritan inscription was recovered along the southern edge of a settlement situated 6.5 km east of Yavneh. The inhabited area occupied a prominent kurkar hill and extended in part onto the adjacent plain. Plan source: Fischer, Taxel, Amit 2008: 9, fig. 1. Further reading: CIIP IV 2742. Fischer, M., Taxel, I., Amit D. 2008. “Rural Settlement in the Vicinity of Yavneh in the Byzantine Period: A Religio-Archaeological Perspective.” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 350, 20.