OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Palestine Exploration Quarterly is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Miniature Terracotta Masks from the Decapolis City of Gerasa/Jerash, Jordan	14
Agency, Kinship and the Case of the Northern Kingdom of Israel	5
Something old, something new: Ongoing revelations within the Faynan Landscape	4
Exploring the Holy Land: 150 years of the Palestine Exploration Fund	4
Biblical Ziklag: the Case for Khirbet er-Ra‘i	4
Hidden in plain sight	2
Acknowledgements	2
Jerusalem’s Northern Defences Under Hadrian	2
Under the Mediterranean I: Studies in Maritime Archaeology	2
The Ḥarrah ’s Epigraphic Heritage: New Greek inscriptions from the black desert in north-eastern Jordan	2
Notes and News	2
‘Diocletian oppressed the inhabitants of Paneas’ (ySheb. 9:2): A New Tetrarchic boundary stone from Abel Beth Maacah	2
Life at the Dead Sea: Proceedings of the International Conference held at the State Museum of Archaeology Chemnitz (smac), February 21–24, 2018, Chemnitz	2
A Mameluke-period terracotta juglet from Umm Zweitineh, Jordan	1
The Road Taken: An Archaeologist’s Journey to the Land of the Bible The Road Taken: An Archaeologist’s Journey to the Land of the Bible , by Seymour (Sy) Gitin, The Penn	1
The 2022 survey season at Khirbet al-Mudayna al-ʿAliya, Jordan	1
Caesarea Maritima Excavations in the Old City 1989-2003 Conducted by the University of Maryland and the University of Haifa, Final Reports. Volume 1Caesarea Maritima Excavations in the Old City 198	1
Juliusz Słowacki in the Holy Land in 1837	1
Books Received	1
Guest Editorial: The Rockefeller Museum	1
The Level V City Wall at Lachish	1
From Nabataeo-Arabic to Palaeo-Arabic: Two new pre-Islamic graffiti from the Jordanian Ḥarrah	1
Filling the gap: A microscopic zooarchaeological approach to changes in butchering technology during the Early and Middle Bronze periods at Tall Zirā´a, Jordan	1
Reading between the tesserae: The Tabgha mosaics’ stages, patronage, and authenticity re-examined	1
The Four-Chambered Gate at Megiddo	1

The cultural biography of two volute capitals at Iron Age Hazor	1
The Meṣad Ḥashavyahu Ostracon in its Regional, Economic, and Political Context	0
Beit Loya: Historicising Marginal Sites in Late Islamic Rural Palestine	0
Edom at the Edge of Empire: A Social and Political History	0
Professor Alan Millard	0
The Price of Conflict: Devastation of Cultural Heritage in War and Political Strife, the West Bank as a Case Study	0
Contributions to the Archaeology of Palestine by Overlooked Twentieth-Century Palestinian Archaeologists, Yusra Al-Ḥaifawiyah, Naṣr Dwekat and Ibrahim Al-Fanni	0
The Identity of the Leaders of the Second Jewish Revolt and Bar Koseba's True Role in the Insurrection	0
Desert Insurgency: Archaeology, T.E. Lawrence, and the Arab Revolt	0
The Changing Character of Iron Age Jerusalem as Revealed in the Ophel Excavations	0
Bronze Anklets from Ḥorvat Tevet (Jezreel Valley): New Light on Exchange and Identity Construction in the Iron I	0
Assessing the PEF collection of photographic works by the Zangaki brothers	0
An Iron Age Stone Toilet Seat (the ‘Throne of Solomon’) from Captain Montagu Brownlow Parker’s 1909–1911 Excavations in Jerusalem	0
An Artist in Abydos: The Life and Letters of Myrtle Broome	0
Preserving Palestinian Cultural Heritage: ‘The Memory of History’ Project	0
Books Received	0
Barbara Lee Johnson (1943–2022)	0
Tel ‘Afar (Tell al-Akhdar): A Monastic or Estate Church on theVia MarisSouth of Caesarea	0
Towards a Chronological Framing of the Two Mosques of Islamic Baydha	0
How to Date a City Wall? The Case Study of Middle Bronze Age Lachish	0
Hesi after 50 Years and 130 Years: Beginning a New Generation of Hesi Research,	0
The Case of the Two Volute Capitals from Tel Hazor	0
Faynan, Nomads and the Western Negev in the Early Iron Age: A Critical Reappraisal	0
Acknowledgements	0
An inscription from the Badia: Documenting evidence for the plague in the Mameluke Period	0
A Summary Report – PEF Grant: ‘Khirbat al-Mafjar Archaeological Project, Jericho’	0
Bathing Jewish, Bathing Greek: Developing an Approach to De-Categorising Hellenism and Judaism	0
Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City	0
Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth	0
Books Received	0
A Note on the Dedication of the Churches in Shivta	0
Animals in the Ancient World: The Levett Bestiary ,	0
An Ancient Mega-Project in North Jordan: The Fortress of Tell Ushayer	0
Walking Palestine: 25 Journeys into the West Bank	0
‘Nevermind the Camel!’: The Hogarth Archive and the Wilderness of Zin	0
The Urban Renovation of Samaria–Sebaste of the 2nd and 3rd centuriesce: Observations on some architectural artefacts	0
The Murder of James Leslie Starkey near Lachish. A different view from a Colonial Office file	0
‘I am sorry for troubling you with the bother of replying! But I really want to know’: An unpublished letter by T. E. Lawrence to Max van Berchem about a Mameluke inscription from Naqb (Sinai/Negev)	0
Books Received	0
The Fifth Milestation from Tiberias: A Newly Discovered Milestone in the Gennesaret Valley Illumines the Roman Arterial Network	0
Building 101 at Tel ‘Eton, the Low Chronology, and the Perils of a Bias-Perpetuating Methodology: A Response and a Proposal for the Study of All the Phases in the History of Buildings	0
The City Walls of Lachish: Response to Yosef Garfinkel, Michael Hasel, Martin Klingbeil and Their Colleagues	0
Daily life and cultural appropriation in Early Bronze Age Canaan: Games and gaming in a domestic neighbourhood at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel	0
Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World’s Most Contested City	0
The 2011 Season of Excavation at Gadara (Umm Qais) of the Decapolis	0
Invisible Excavators: The Quftis of Megiddo, 1925–1939	0
Old Ground Plan - New Insights: The Central Church Compound in Shivta Revised	0
A Dedication ‘to the Olympian Gods’ for Hadrian’s Sōtēria : Saluting the Emperor’s Rural Passage through Syria-Palestina	0
John Bartlett, unintentional mentor	0
An Accidental Archaeologist: A Personal Memoir An Accidental Archaeologist: A Personal Memoir , by Eric M. Meyers, Cascade Books, Eugene, Oregon, 1922, xiii + 218 pp, 34	0

‘Sacred Landscapes’: The Umayyad Syro-Jordanian Hajj Roads to Mecca and their Pilgrim Camps (PEF 2020 Grant) and towards final publication of the Umayyad Syro-Jordanian	0
Tatami: The Enigmatic Toponym of Western Judah, and Use of Suffixes in Dating Toponyms	0
Colonial Archaeology in Palestine in the 1930s: The First Expedition to Lachish	0
The Roman-Period Road Network in Southern Moab: A Geographic and Historical Enquiry	0
Books Received	0
The Iron Age IIA ‘Benyaw Inscription’ on a Jar from Tel Abel Beth Maacah	0
Double Review: Re-Excavating Jerusalem: Archival Archaeology & Revealing the History of Ancient Palestine Re-Excavating Jerusalem: Archival Archaeology , by Kay Prag	0
Atlas of Palestine 1871-1877	0
A Chalcolithic presence east of the Sea of Galilee: The earliest finds on Mt. Sussita	0
Professor Alan Millard retires from PEQ Editorial Advisory Board	0
Notes and News	0
The Career of Moses Shapira, Bookseller and Antiquarian	0
Chronology and Strategic Significance of the Hilltop Fortress, Umm Tawabin in Jordan: Some Conclusions from the 2015-2018 Survey and Excavations by the Ghor As-Safi Project	0
Rev. Professor John R Bartlett	0
The Unique Specialised Economy of Judah under Assyrian Rule and its Impact on the Material Culture of the Kingdom	0
Script and Society: The Social Context of Writing Practices in Late Bronze Age Ugarit	0
The Petra Hinterland Social Landscapes Project (PHSLP): Summary Report on the First Season, 2022	0
Georgian Graffito from Nessana, Dating to the ‘Dark Age’ of Christianity in Palestine	0
Strategies of Animal Exploitation in Late Iron Age IIA Ḥorvat Tevet (the Jezreel Valley) Reveal Patterns of Royal Economy in Early Monarchic Israel	0
The Use of Greek in Palestine: Eupolemus as a Case Study	0
Fibulae of the Southern Levant During the Iron Age II: Chronology, Inter-Regional Connectivity and Performance	0
Moses Wilhelm Shapira, Hermann Weser and the Moab Expedition: Provenance Study of the Moabitica	0
Acknowledgements	0
A Roman Bronze Figurine of a Seated Infant from Shivta in the Negev	0
Investigating changing socio-economic landscapes from the Early Bronze I–III in the Levant through Zooarchaeology	0
Dating the Fortress of Umm Tawabin, Jordan: Results of Radiocarbon Dating Analysis	0
Kom Tuman II: Late Period to Graeco-Roman Pottery, Volumes I and II	0
A Hiding Complex and Ritual Bath (Miqveh) at Ḥorvat Maskana and the Question of Their Use in the Byzantine Period	0
Why those who Shovel are Silent: A History of Local Archaeological Knowledge	0
Guest Editorial: Gaza's Cultural Heritage and Intellectual Life	0
Ashkelon 8: The Islamic and Crusader Periods	0
In the Footsteps of Honor Frost: The Life and Legacy of a Pioneer in Maritime Archaeology	0
Decorated Bone Tube Manufacture in Early Bronze Age Israel: Experimental Analysis of Bone Preparation and Incising	0
Temporal change in traditional knowledge and use of wild plants in Artas, Palestine	0
The End of Arabah Copper Production and the Destruction of Gath: A Critique and an Alternative Interpretation	0
Some thoughts about Words	0
Charles Warren: Royal Engineer in the Age of Empire	0
Nine new Byzantine Funerary Inscriptions from El-ʿIrāq (Southern Jordan)	0
On the Origins of the Tel Nami Pyxides	0
An Iron Age II ceramic figurine from Umm Sweiwineh, Central Jordan	0
Jonathan Nicholas Tubb21st December, 1951 – 25th September, 2023	0
Sounds in the desert: New evidence of ambos in Shivta churches	0
Acknowledgements	0
Establishing a baseline for the study of maritime cultural heritage in the Gaza Strip	0
On Olive Oil and Perfume Production in Iron Age IIA Tell es Safi/Gath, Israel	0
Acknowledgements	0