Re: orion-list Qumran Cemetery and el-Ghuweir

2002-02-18 Thread Joe Zias
Dear Ian I once tried in vain to find Bar-Adon's field notes in the IAA which may have shed light on the cemetery of Ain el-ghuweir however there were no where to be found. As for your query, the presence of the east-woman burial in the cemetery does not in my opinion present any problems as

orion-list Qumran Cemetery and el-Ghuweir

2002-02-17 Thread Ian Hutchesson
Joe, Further reading fo the el-Ghuweir cemetery indicates that Bar-Adon was neither able to justify the presence of the one east-west tomb, #15, nor could he explain it away as a Bedouin burial. There is an interesting comment about the Bedouin: they are expert in differentiating, according