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Papers

(The median citation count of Tel Aviv-Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv Universit 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Archaeo-Material Study of the Cuneiform Tablet from Tel Beth-Shemesh	13
In Memoriam: Doctor Zeʾev Meshel (1932–2024)	7
A Unique Assemblage of Cremation Burial from Ḥorvat Tevet and Assyrian Imperial Rule in the Jezreel Valley	7
Biblical Gilgal: A Common Place Name or a Cult Site near Jericho?	7
Lower Palaeolithic Tools of Potency: Handaxes Shaped around Fossils and Other Extraordinary Features at Sakhnin Valley, Israel	6
Locating Jerusalem’s Royal Palace in the Second Millennium BCE in Light of the Glyptic and Cuneiform Material Unearthed in the Ophel	6
Shedding a Concealed Light: Lamp-and-Bowl Building Deposits from Tel Azekah	5
Metalworking in Cultic Spaces: The Emergence of New Offering Practices in the Middle Bronze Age Southern Levant	5
Rehabilitating Gate 3165 at Iron Age Megiddo	4
Archaeometallurgical Analysis of Lead Weights and Sling Bullets from Seleucid Tell Iẓṭabba: More on Lead Origin in Seleucid Palestine	4
The Last Gate Has Closed: Revisiting the Late Iron Age Fortress Gate at ʿEn Ḥaẓeva	3
Day and Night: Illuminating Late Roman Aelia	2
Editor’s Foreword	2
Qlaʿ: A Royal Oil- and Wine-Production Centre in the Kingdom of Israel	2
An Israelite Residency at Mahanaim in Transjordan?	2
A Seal Impression of ‘ShemaꜤ Servant of Jeroboam’	1
Manasseh’s Wall and Construction Operations on the Western Slope of the Southeastern Hill of Jerusalem	1
Cult and Architecture in the Chalcolithic Period of the Southern Levant: The Case of En-Gedi and Teleilat Ghassul	1
From Hinterland Production to Market Dynamics: Petrographic Study of Roman Discus Lamps and Their Trade in the Southern Levant	1
The En-Gedi Spring Site and the Judahite Expansion into the Judaean Desert in the Late Iron Age	1
The Enigmatic Lady on the Stone in Shivta’s Desert: A Byzantine Icon or Ex situ Figurative Relief?	1
Mace in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Ancient Near East	1
Between Israel and Phoenicia: The Iron IIA–B Fortified Purple-dye Production Centre at Tel Shiqmona	1
Jerusalem’s Growth in Light of the Renewed Excavations in the Ophel	1
Papyrus Amherst 63: Shifting between the Heavenly and Earthly Spheres	0

The Iron Age Complex in the Ophel, Jerusalem: A Critical Analysis	0
Challenging Conceptions: First Insights from the Renewed Excavations at Hazor’s Lower City	0
In Memoriam: Professor Ora Negbi (1929–2024)	0
Revising the Chronology and Typology of Gaza Ware, a Hallmark of Late Islamic Palestinian Pottery	0
Archaeomagnetic Dating of the Outer Revetment Wall at Tel Lachish	0
Reading Berlin P. 10679 Inside Out	0
The Burial Chapel of Melisende, Queen of the Kingdom of Jerusalem: A Reexamination	0
A Unique Iron I Installation with a Double Basin and Drain from Tel Abel Beth Maacah	0
The Cornets of Teleilat Ghassul as a Vigil Object	0
Between Gaulanitis and Hippos: The Roman Road in the Southern Golan Heights in Context	0
Cultic Perceptions of Pigs and Goats in the Hellenistic Societies of the Southern Coastal Levant: Textual and Material Evidence	0
Dynamics of Ivory Consumption and Exchange in the Late Bronze and Iron Age Southern Levant: A Contextual Investigation	0
The Lion Figurine from Qlaʿ	0
Manufacturing Technology: Firing as an Integral Component in the Production of Cuneiform Tablets from the Amarna Archive	0
The Pottery of Babylonian-period Jerusalem: Stratum 9/10 at the Summit of the Southeastern Hill	0
Unveiling Regional Socio-economic Dynamics in the EB IB Southern Levant: The Case of the Gutter-Rim Bowls	0
The Late Iron IIA Cylindrical Holemouth Jars and Their Role in the Royal Economy of Early Monarchic Israel	0
Flora in the Latin East: Archaeobotanical Remains from Crusader Arsur	0
Roman Glass Windowpanes in Context: The Regimental Shrine of the Standards in the Fort near Tel Shalem	0
The Secret in the Desert: Preliminary Conclusions from the Excavation of a Unique Burial Complex in the Negev Highlands	0
Plant Remains from Rothenberg’s Excavations in Timna: Smelters’ Food and Cultic Offerings at the Turn of the First Millennium BCE	0
An Early Iron Age Moat in Jerusalem between the Ophel and the Southeastern Ridge/City of David	0
The Metal Assemblage of Early Iron Age el-Aḥwat: Trade and Metalworking in the Margins of the Southern Levantine Central Highlands	0
Hellenistic Ashdod-Yam in Light of Recent Archaeological Investigations	0