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was discovered, alongside a furnace and a pottery workshop where fragments of decorated pottery shards were found. Nearby the site,
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279:Archeology
259:up to the
202:Site notes
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245:West Bank
243:, in the
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207:Condition
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347:Academia
267:and the
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169:History
293:Jewish
287:, and
285:mikveh
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