Program

Research Programs: Basic Research

Period of Performance

5/1/1978 - 9/1/1979

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$29,867.20 (approved)
$29,867.20 (awarded)


Excavations at Tel Anafa, Israel

FAIN: RO-*0856-78

Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1015)
Sharon Herbert (Project Director: November 1977 to October 1990)

To mount a 3-year program to excavate further the Hellenistic settlement at Tel Anafa, Israel. The Hellenistic town, apparently a Seleucid trade center near the caravan route between Tyre and Damascus, flourished c. 150-80BC