1991-1992 |
Educational excavation at Tel Hadar and Mitcham
Levi'a (Golan Heights), and Yavneh-Yam |
1992-1996 |
Area Supervisor, Yavneh-Yam and Apollonia-Arsuf excavations |
1992-1996 |
Archaeological Survey of Roman Roads in Palestine, under B. Isaac and I. Roll |
1995 |
Director of rescue excavations at Herzliah Beth |
1995-1996 |
Director of rescue excavations at Tel Hamid (Lower Terrace) |
1997 |
Director of the Parod and Beersheba (Galilee) survey and excavation |
1999 |
Co-Director of rescue excavations at Rishon LeZion (West) |
2005-2007 |
Director of rescue excavations at Ramla (South) |
2007- |
Director of the Apollonia-Arsuf Excavation Project |
Current Projects
Selected Publications
Books
Tal, O. and Taxel, I. 2008. Ramla (South): An Early Islamic Industrial Site and Remains of Previous Periods. Salvage Excavation Reports 5. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, Institute of Archaeology.
Tal, O. 2006. The Archaeology of Hellenistic Palestine: Between Tradition and Renewal. Jerusalem: Bialik Institute. (Hebrew).
Tal, O. 2009. The Archaeology of Hellenistic Palestine: Between Tradition and Renewal
(Revised 2nd edition/electronic edition). Jerusalem: Bialik Institute. (Hebrew).
Gitler, H. and Tal, O. 2006. The Coinage of Philistia of the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC: A Study of the Earliest Coins of Palestine. Collezioni Numismatiche 6. Milan: Ennerre.
Fischer, M., Gichon, M. and Tal, O. 2000. 'En Boqeq: Excavations in an Oasis on the Dead Sea. Volume II: The Officina - An Early Roman Building on the Dead Sea Shore. Mainz: Philipp von Zabern.
Roll, I. and Tal, O. 1999. Apollonia-Arsuf: Final Report of the Excavations. Volume I: The Persian and Hellenistic Periods (with Appendices on the Chalcolithic and Iron Age II Remains). Tel Aviv University, Monograph Series of the Institute of Archaeology 16. Tel Aviv.
Books Edited
Tal, O. 2011. The Last Supper at Apollonia: The Final Days of the Crusader Castle in Herzliya. Tel Aviv: Eretz Israel Museum (Bi-lingual Hebrew/English).
Roll, I., Tal, O. and Winter, M. 2007. The Encounter of Crusaders and Muslims in Palestine as Reflected in Arsuf, Sayyiduna 'Ali and Other Coastal Sites. Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz HaMeuchad. (Hebrew).
Selected Recent Articles
Tal, O. 2012. Greek Coinages of Palestine. In: Metcalf, W. E. ed. The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Coinage. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 252-274.
Ashkenazi, D., Golan, O. and Tal, O. 2012. An Archaeometallurgical Study of 13th-Century Arrowheads and Bolts from the Crusader Castle of Arsuf/Arsur. Archaeometry 54/6.
Tal, O. and Teixeira Bastos, M. 2012. Intentionally Broken Discus Lamps from Roman Apollonia: A New Interpretation. Tel Aviv 39: 105-115.
Fantalkin, A. and Tal, O. 2012. The Canonization of the Pentateuch: When and Why? Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 124/1 (Part I): 1-18; 124/2 (Part II): 201-212.
Tal, O. and Taxel, I. 2012. Socio-Political and Economic Aspects of Refuse Disposal in Late Byzantine and Early Islamic Palestine. In: Matthews, R., Curtis, J., et al. Proceedings of the 7th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, 12-16, April 2010. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz GmbH & Co. Pp. 497-518.
Ashkenazi, D., Iddan, N. and Tal, O. 2012. Archaeometallurgical Characterization of Hellenistic Metal Objects: The Contribution of the Bronze Objects from Rishon Le-Zion (Israel). Archaeometry 54/3: 528-548.
Ponting, M., Gitler, H. and Tal, O. 2011. Who Minted Those Owls? Metallurgical Analyses of Athenian-styled Tetradrachms Found in Israel. Revue Belge de Numismatique et de Sigillographie 157: 117-134.
Tal, O. 2011. 'Hellenistic Foundations' in Palestine. In: Grabbe, L.L. and Lipschits, O. eds. Judah between East and West: The Transition from Persian to Greek Rule (ca. 400-200 BCE) . Library of Second Temple Studies 75. New York and London: T&T Clark. Pp. 242-254.
Tal, O. 2011. Negotiating Identity in an International Context under Achaemenid Rule: The Indigenous Persian-period Coinages of Palestine as an Allegory. In: Lipschits, O., Knoppers, G. N. and Oeming, M. eds. The Judeans in the Achaemenid Age: Negotiating Identity in an International Context . Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns. Pp. 445-459.
Tal, O. and Taxel, I. 2010. A Re-appraisal of the Archaeological Findings at Tel Hashash: On the Archaeology of the Yarqon Estuary from Classical Times to Late Antiquity. Palestine Exploration Quarterly 142: 95-126.
Tal, O. and Baidoun, I. 2010. A Hoard of Mamluk, Ottoman and Venetian Coins (Fifteenth to Sixteenth Centuries) from Apollonia-Arsuf, Israel. Numismatic Chronicle 170: 484-493.
Fantalkin, A. and Tal, O. 2010. Reassessing the Date of the Beginning of the Grey Series Transport Amphorae from Lesbos. BABESCH: Annual Papers on Mediterranean Archaeology 85: 1-12.
Tal, O. 2009. A Winepress at Apollonia-Arsuf: More Evidence on the Samaritan Presence in Roman-Byzantine Southern Sharon. Liber Annuus 59: 319-342.
Tal, O. 2009. A Portable Sundial from Byzantine Apollonia-Arsuf / Sozousa? Semitica et Classica [formerly Semitica] 2: 91-96.
Fantalkin, A. and Tal, O. 2009. Navigating Between the Powers: Joppa and Its Vicinity in the 1st Millennium B.C.E. Ugarit-Forschungen 40: 225-276.
Gitler, H., Ponting, M. and Tal, O. 2009. Athenian Tetradrachms from Tel Mikhal (Israel): A Metallurgical Perspective. American Journal of Numismatics, Second Series 21: 29-49.
Fantalkin, A. and Tal, O. 2009. Re-discovering the Iron Age Fortress at Tell Qudadi in the Context of the Neo-Assyrian Imperialistic Policies. Palestine Exploration Quarterly 141: 188-206.
Gitler, H. and Tal, O. 2009. More Evidence on the Collective Mint of Philistia. Israel Numismatic Research 4: 21-37.
Tal, O. 2009. Hellenism in Transition from Empire to Kingdom: Changes in the Material Culture of Hellenistic Palestine. In: Levine, L.I. and Schwartz, D.R. eds. Jewish Identities in Antiquity: Studies in Memory of Menahem Stern. Texte und Studien zum Antiken Judentum 130. Tübingen. Pp. 55-73.
Tal , O. 2009. On the Identification of the Ships of kzd/ry of the Erased Customs Account from Elephantine. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 68: 1-8.
Tal, O. and Fantalkin, A. 2009. The Area of Tel Aviv in the First Millennium BCE: Between Kingdoms and Empires. In: Ayalon, E. ed. The Hidden History of Tel Aviv. Tel Aviv. Pp. 81-111. (Hebrew).
Roll, I. and Tal, O. 2009. A New Greek Inscription from Byzantine Apollonia-Arsuf / Sozousa: A Reassessment of the Eis Teos Monos Inscriptions of Palestine. Scripta Classica Israelica 28: 139-147.
Galor, K., Roll, I. and Tal, O. 2009. Apollonia-Arsuf: Between Past and Future. Near Eastern Archaeology 72: 4-27.
Tal, O. 2008. Cult in Transition from Achaemenid to Greek Rule: The Contribution of Achaemenid-Ptolemaic Temples of Palestine. Transeuphratène 36: 165-183.
Roll, I. and Tal, O. 2008. A Villa of the Early Roman Period at Apollonia-Arsuf. Israel Exploration Journal 58: 132-149.
Gitler, H., Ponting, M. and Tal, O. 2008. Metallurgical Analysis of Southern Palestinian Coins of the Persian Period. Israel Numismatic Research 3: 13-27.
Freestone, I.C., Jackson-Tal, R.E. and Tal, O. 2008. Raw Glass and the Production of Glass Vessels at Late Byzantine Apollonia-Arsuf, Israel. Journal of Glass Study 50: 67-80.
Tal, O., Jackson-Tal, R.E. and Freestone, I.C. 2008. Glass from a Late Byzantine Secondary Workshop at Ramla (South), Israel. Journal of Glass Study 50: 81-95.
Fischer, M., Roll, I. and Tal, O. 2008. Persian and Hellenistic Remains at Tel Ya'oz. Tel Aviv 35: 123-163.
Tal, O. 2007. Coin Denominations and Weight Standards in Fourth-Century BCE Palestine. Israel Numismatic Research 2: 17-28.
Gitler, H., Tal, O. and van Alfen, P. 2007. Silver Dome-shaped Coins from Persian-period Southern Palestine. Israel Numismatic Research 2: 47-62.
Tal, O. 2007. Some Observations on the Manufacturing Traditions in the Wooden and Stone Vessel Industry in Hellenistic Palestine. Topoi Supplément 8: 173-187.
Tal, O. 2007. Eretz-Israel during the Hellenistic Period: An Archaeological Perspective. Qadmoniot 133: 2-14. (Hebrew).
Tal, O. 2007. [Several Chapters]. In: Beit-Arieh, I. ed. Horvat 'Uza and Horvat Radum: Two Fortresses in the Biblical Negev . Tel Aviv University, Monograph Series of the Institute of Archaeology 25. Tel Aviv.
Lipschits, O. and Tal, O. 2007. The Settlement Archaeology of the Province of Judah: A Case Study. In: Lipschits, O., Knoppers, G. and Albertz, R. eds. Judah and the Judeans in the Fourth Century B.C.E . Winona Lake. Pp. 33-52.
Gitler, H. and Tal, O. 2006. Coins with the Aramaic Legend Shrw and Other Unrecorded Samarian Issues. Schweizerische Numismatische Rundschau 85: 47-68.
Fantalkin, A. and Tal, O. 2006. Redating Lachish Level I: Identifying Achaemenid Imperial Policy at the Southern Frontier of the Fifth Satrapy. In: Lipschits, O. and Oeming, M. eds. Judah and the Judeans in the Persian Period. Winona Lake. Pp. 167-197.
Tal, O. 2005. Some Remarks on the Coastal Plain of Palestine under Achaemenid Rule - An Archaeological Synopsis. Persika 6: 71-96.
Tal, O. 2005. Persian Period Remains at Rishon Le-Zion. Salvage Excavation Reports 2: 30-37.
Tal, O., Jackson-Tal, R.E. and Freestone, I.C. 2004. New Evidence of the Production of Raw Glass at Late Byzantine Apollonia-Arsuf, Israel. Journal of Glass Study 46: 51-66.
Fantalkin, A. and Tal, O. 2004. The Persian and Hellenistic Pottery of Level I. In: Ussishkin, D. ed. The Renewed Archaeological Excavations at Lachish 1973-1994. Tel Aviv University, Monograph Series of the Institute of Archaeology 22. Tel Aviv. Pp. 2174-2194.
Tal, O. 2003. On the Origin and Concept of the Loculi Tombs of Hellenistic Palestine. Ancient West & East 2: 288-307.
Fantalkin, A. and Tal, O. 2003. The 'Yannai Line' (BJ I, 99-100; AJ XIII, 390-91): Reality or Fiction? Palestine Exploration Quarterly 135: 108-123.
Tal, O. 2003. Some Cultural Trends in Plain Black Attic Imports Found in the Coastal Plain of Palestine. In: Schmaltz, B. and Söldner, M. eds. Griechische Keramik im kulturellen Kontext. Akten des Internationalen Vasen-Symposions in Kiel vom 24.bis 28.9.2001 . Münster. Pp. 271-273.
Fischer, M. and Tal, O. 2003. Architectural Decoration in Ancient Israel in Hellenistic Times: Some Aspects of Hellenization. Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 119: 19-37.
Fischer, M. and Tal, O. 2003. A Fourth-Century BCE Attic Marble Totenmahlrelief at Apollonia-Arsuf. Israel Exploration Journal 53: 49-60.
Barkay, G., Fantalkin, A. and Tal, O. 2002. A Late Iron Age Fortress North of Jerusalem. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 328: 49-71.
M.A. Students
Marcio Teixeira Bastos, 2011. Early Christianization in Roman Palestine: The Case of Apollonia-Arsuf (co-supervisor - M.I.D.A. Fleming [University of Sao Paulo]).
Lee Perry, 2011. The Route Network and Sites in Southern Palestine between the Rule of Alexander Jannaeus (104 BCE) and the Foundation of Provincia Arabia (106 CE) as a Case-study for the Understanding of Judaean-Nabataean Interactions (co-supervisor - M. Fischer).
Ido Gordin, in preparation. The Architectural Origins of the Crusader Castle of Arsur (Apollonia-Arsuf) (co-supervisor - A.J. Boas [University of Haifa]).
Eriola Jakoel, in preparation. Tombs and Burials in Roman Jaffa (Joppa): The New Discoveries, 1993-2011.
Gennady Lerner, in preparation. The Classical Periods Settlement of Malhata/Malatha (co-supervisor - M. Fischer).
Reuven Vunsh, in preparation. East Mediterranean Late Holocene Relative Sea-Level Changes Based on Archaeological Indicators from the Coast of Israel (co-supervisor - D. Sivan [University of Haifa]).
Ph.D. Students
Meir Edrey, in preparation. Phoenicians in the Eastern Mediterranean under Achaemenid and Greek Rule: Social and Cultural Perspectives in Light of Archaeological Research (Universitaet Mainz, co-supervisors - R. Buhl, W. Zwickel).
Dan Mirkin, in preparation. Inter-relations between Land and Sea during the Crusader Period: Handling of Marine Cargo, Humans and Animals in the Southern Levant during the 11th-13th Centuries (co-supervisor - Y. Kahanov [University of Haifa]).
Post-Doctoral Students
Elisabeth Yehuda, 2012-2014. The Crusader Town of Apollonia/Arsur (Israel): Structure - Cultural Adaptation - Urban-Rural Relations (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft-funded project).
Itamar Taxel, 2012-2014. The Archaeology and History of the Samaritan Settlement outside Samaria (ca. 150-800 CE) (Israel Science Foundation-funded project).
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