Horbat Qoshet | The Levantine Ceramics Project

Site: Horbat Qoshet

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Site Information

Site name (primary, secondary):

Horbat Qoshet

Country/region:

Israel/Jezreel Valley

Alternate names & spellings:

Horvat Qoshet, Khirbet Qasta

Coordinates (N,E):

32.74382 , 35.15035

Periods attested by vessels on the LCP:

Roman, Byzantine

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Site Description

Horbat Qoshet (Khirbet Qasta) is a ruin on the margins of the Jezreel Valley. The published excavation A-5465 exposed installations on the outskirts of the settlement, including a winepress and water cisterns. Syon dates the principal pottery group in Cistern D to the fourth–fifth centuries CE. The coordinates mark the wider ruin as recorded by the Israel Antiquities Authority Archaeological Survey of Israel (site 35).

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Related Images

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Horbat Qoshet 1005/1

Jar

Horbat Qoshet

4th–5th centuries CE

Byzantine

Horbat Qoshet 1005/3

Bowl

Horbat Qoshet

4th–5th centuries CE

Byzantine

Horbat Qoshet 1005/5

Bowl

Horbat Qoshet

4th–5th centuries CE

Byzantine

Horbat Qoshet 1005/6

Jug/pitcher

Horbat Qoshet

4th–5th centuries CE

Byzantine

Break Photos 0

Petrographic Samples 0

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Site/Project URLs and Database Links

Site/Project URLs

IAA Archaeological Survey of Israel, site 35 (https://survey.iaa.org.il/index_Eng.html#/MapSurvey/26/site/3430)

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Associated Wares/Ware Families/Style

Ware name:

Date:

Period:

Kefar Hananya Ware

1st century BCE - 5th century CE

Roman, Byzantine

Shikhin ware

1st-3rd c. CE

Roman

Associated Petro-fabrics

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Associated Kilns/Workshops

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Bibliography

Syon, Danny. "Horbat Qoshet", 2017. https://hadashot.iaa.org.il/Report_Detail_Eng.aspx?id=25358, 10 November 2026 , Figure 1.

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Discussion/Acknowledgements

Avner Raban surveyed the ruin (Archaeological Survey of Israel, site 35). Danny Syon directed excavation A-5465 and published the 2017 final report. Dina Avshalom-Gorni and Edna Dalali-Amos reported excavation A-8048 in 2024.