Category:Oboda--research (subject)

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Survey of scholarly works on the city of Oboda.

Overview

The site was first "rediscovered" and mapped in 1870 by E.H. Palmer and C.F. Tyrwhitt-Drake. More detailed investigations were conducted in 1902 (A. Musil), 1904 (A. Jaussen, R. Savignac, and H. Vincent), and 1913/14 (C.L. Woolley and T.E. Lawrence), with trial digs at the site by D.H. Colt in 1937.

Large-scale excavations were undertaken in the 1950s directed by Michael Avi-Yonah (1958) and Avraham Negev (1959–60) on behalf of the National Parks Authority and the Hebrew University. Negev resumed excavations in 1975-79 (with R. Cohen) and later in 1989 excavated on the acropolis. More recent excavations were conducted on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority by G. Tahal, O. Katz and P. Fabian (1992-93), and by T. Erickson-Gini (1999–2000).