OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Palestine Exploration Quarterly 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Miniature Terracotta Masks from the Decapolis City of Gerasa/Jerash, Jordan	8
Agency, Kinship and the Case of the Northern Kingdom of Israel	6
Biblical Ziklag: the Case for Khirbet er-Ra‘i	5
Something old, something new: Ongoing revelations within the Faynan Landscape	4
Exploring the Holy Land: 150 years of the Palestine Exploration Fund	4
Jerusalem’s Northern Defences Under Hadrian	4
A priest, a deacon, and some lay people in Greek Christian epitaphs from the Land of Moab	4
Under the Mediterranean I: Studies in Maritime Archaeology	3
Notes and News	3
Edward Henry Palmer’s Early Alphabetic Inscription (Sinai 348)	2
‘Diocletian oppressed the inhabitants of Paneas’ (ySheb. 9:2): A New Tetrarchic boundary stone from Abel Beth Maacah	2
Reading between the tesserae: The Tabgha mosaics’ stages, patronage, and authenticity re-examined	2
Books Received	2
Announcing the winners of The Routledge Philip R. Davies Early Career Publication Award 2024	1
Juliusz Słowacki in the Holy Land in 1837	1
Bronze Anklets from Ḥorvat Tevet (Jezreel Valley): New Light on Exchange and Identity Construction in the Iron I	1
From Nabataeo-Arabic to Palaeo-Arabic: Two new pre-Islamic graffiti from the Jordanian Ḥarrah	1
Caesarea Maritima Excavations in the Old City 1989-2003 Conducted by the University of Maryland and the University of Haifa, Final Reports. Volume 1Caesarea Maritima Excavations in the Old City 198	1
Filling the gap: A microscopic zooarchaeological approach to changes in butchering technology during the Early and Middle Bronze periods at Tall Zirā´a, Jordan	1
The 2022 survey season at Khirbet al-Mudayna al-ʿAliya, Jordan	1
The Level V City Wall at Lachish	1
Daily life and cultural appropriation in Early Bronze Age Canaan: Games and gaming in a domestic neighbourhood at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel	1
The Ḥarrah ’s Epigraphic Heritage: New Greek inscriptions from the black desert in north-eastern Jordan	1
The Road Taken: An Archaeologist’s Journey to the Land of the Bible The Road Taken: An Archaeologist’s Journey to the Land of the Bible , by Seymour (Sy) Gitin, The Penn	1
The Four-Chambered Gate at Megiddo	1

Acknowledgements	1
Dating the Fortress of Umm Tawabin, Jordan: Results of Radiocarbon Dating Analysis	1
Desert Insurgency: Archaeology, T.E. Lawrence, and the Arab Revolt	0
The Use of Greek in Palestine: Eupolemus as a Case Study	0
Acknowledgements	0
Atlas of Palestine 1871-1877	0
Bathing Jewish, Bathing Greek: Developing an Approach to De-Categorising Hellenism and Judaism	0
Mount Machaerus: An Introduction to the Historical, Archaeological, and Pilgrim Site Overlooking the Dead Sea in the Kingdom of Jordan	0
Animals in the Ancient World: The Levett Bestiary ,	0
Nahal Yarmuth 38: A PPNB and PN Site in Central Israel	0
Chronology and Strategic Significance of the Hilltop Fortress, Umm Tawabin in Jordan: Some Conclusions from the 2015-2018 Survey and Excavations by the Ghor As-Safi Project	0
Beit Loya: Historicising Marginal Sites in Late Islamic Rural Palestine	0
‘Sacred Landscapes’: The Umayyad Syro-Jordanian Hajj Roads to Mecca and their Pilgrim Camps (PEF 2020 Grant) and towards final publication of the Umayyad Syro-Jordanian	0
A Summary Report – PEF Grant: ‘Khirbat al-Mafjar Archaeological Project, Jericho’	0
An Iron Age Stone Toilet Seat (the ‘Throne of Solomon’) from Captain Montagu Brownlow Parker’s 1909–1911 Excavations in Jerusalem	0
Towards a Chronological Framing of the Two Mosques of Islamic Baydha	0
Contributions to the Archaeology of Palestine by Overlooked Twentieth-Century Palestinian Archaeologists, Yusra Al-Ḥaifawiyah, Naṣr Dwekat and Ibrahim Al-Fanni	0
Some thoughts about Words	0
Moses Wilhelm Shapira, Hermann Weser and the Moab Expedition: Provenance Study of the Moabitica	0
Acknowledgements	0
Assessing the PEF collection of photographic works by the Zangaki brothers	0
Clay Speaks of Adaptation: Pottery from Frankish Palestine	0
Georgian Graffito from Nessana, Dating to the ‘Dark Age’ of Christianity in Palestine	0
The Identity of the Leaders of the Second Jewish Revolt and Bar Koseba's True Role in the Insurrection	0
Books Received	0
Faynan, Nomads and the Western Negev in the Early Iron Age: A Critical Reappraisal	0
Kom Tuman II: Late Period to Graeco-Roman Pottery, Volumes I and II	0
The Price of Conflict: Devastation of Cultural Heritage in War and Political Strife, the West Bank as a Case Study	0
Old Ground Plan - New Insights: The Central Church Compound in Shivta Revised	0
Books Received	0
Guest Editorial: Gaza's Cultural Heritage and Intellectual Life	0
Ashkelon 8: The Islamic and Crusader Periods	0
Colonial Archaeology in Palestine in the 1930s: The First Expedition to Lachish	0
Saved Treasures of Gaza – 5000 Years of History From April 3rd to November 2nd, 2025, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris	0
An inscription from the Badia: Documenting evidence for the plague in the Mameluke Period	0
A Chalcolithic presence east of the Sea of Galilee: The earliest finds on Mt. Sussita	0
Sounds in the desert: New evidence of ambos in Shivta churches	0
Acknowledgements	0
Professor Alan Millard retires from PEQ Editorial Advisory Board	0
Rev. Professor John R Bartlett	0
Decorated Bone Tube Manufacture in Early Bronze Age Israel: Experimental Analysis of Bone Preparation and Incising	0
Establishing a baseline for the study of maritime cultural heritage in the Gaza Strip	0
The Petra Hinterland Social Landscapes Project (PHSLP): Summary Report on the First Season, 2022	0
The End of Arabah Copper Production and the Destruction of Gath: A Critique and an Alternative Interpretation	0
The 2011 Season of Excavation at Gadara (Umm Qais) of the Decapolis	0
On Olive Oil and Perfume Production in Iron Age IIA Tell es Safi/Gath, Israel	0
The Case of the Two Volute Capitals from Tel Hazor	0
Books Received	0
John Bartlett, unintentional mentor	0
The Changing Character of Iron Age Jerusalem as Revealed in the Ophel Excavations	0

The Career of Moses Shapira, Bookseller and Antiquarian	0
A Roman Bronze Figurine of a Seated Infant from Shivta in the Negev	0
Why those who Shovel are Silent: A History of Local Archaeological Knowledge	0
Edom at the Edge of Empire: A Social and Political History	0
How to Date a City Wall? The Case Study of Middle Bronze Age Lachish	0
Investigating changing socio-economic landscapes from the Early Bronze I–III in the Levant through Zooarchaeology	0
A Dedication ‘to the Olympian Gods’ for Hadrian’s Sōtēria : Saluting the Emperor’s Rural Passage through Syria-Palestina	0
Preserving Palestinian Cultural Heritage: ‘The Memory of History’ Project	0
Double Review: Re-Excavating Jerusalem: Archival Archaeology & Revealing the History of Ancient Palestine Re-Excavating Jerusalem: Archival Archaeology , by Kay Prag	0
The Fifth Milestation from Tiberias: A Newly Discovered Milestone in the Gennesaret Valley Illumines the Roman Arterial Network	0
Hesi after 50 Years and 130 Years: Beginning a New Generation of Hesi Research,	0
An Artist in Abydos: The Life and Letters of Myrtle Broome	0
Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World’s Most Contested City	0
Crusader Military Activities on the Carmel Coast: the typology, imaging, and metallography of three swords	0
Fibulae of the Southern Levant During the Iron Age II: Chronology, Inter-Regional Connectivity and Performance	0
Cenotaph Hill: An unknown ‘mound’ in the En-Gedi Oasis	0
An Iron Age II ceramic figurine from Umm Sweiwineh, Central Jordan	0
Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City	0
Ancient Edom: The Tel Masos Polity from the tenth to the mid-ninth Century bc	0
A Note on the Dedication of the Churches in Shivta	0
‘Nevermind the Camel!’: The Hogarth Archive and the Wilderness of Zin	0
Books Received	0
Professor Alan Millard	0
A Hiding Complex and Ritual Bath (Miqveh) at Ḥorvat Maskana and the Question of Their Use in the Byzantine Period	0
The Roman-Period Road Network in Southern Moab: A Geographic and Historical Enquiry	0
Tatami: The Enigmatic Toponym of Western Judah, and Use of Suffixes in Dating Toponyms	0
Nine new Byzantine Funerary Inscriptions from El-ʿIrāq (Southern Jordan)	0
Strategies of Animal Exploitation in Late Iron Age IIA Ḥorvat Tevet (the Jezreel Valley) Reveal Patterns of Royal Economy in Early Monarchic Israel	0
Jonathan Nicholas Tubb21st December, 1951 – 25th September, 2023	0
Invisible Excavators: The Quftis of Megiddo, 1925–1939	0
The City Walls of Lachish: Response to Yosef Garfinkel, Michael Hasel, Martin Klingbeil and Their Colleagues	0
An Ancient Mega-Project in North Jordan: The Fortress of Tell Ushayer	0
Bayyarat al-Khuri: An Ecclesiastical Agricultural Estate in Caesarea, Israel	0
Script and Society: The Social Context of Writing Practices in Late Bronze Age Ugarit	0
Ruins as Belief and Practice	0
A Harbour in South Tiberias? Summary of the 2020–2022 Excavations at the Miriam’s Well Beach (South Tiberias Lake Area Project)	0
The Meṣad Ḥashavyahu Ostracon in its Regional, Economic, and Political Context	0
Books Received	0
An Accidental Archaeologist: A Personal Memoir An Accidental Archaeologist: A Personal Memoir , by Eric M. Meyers, Cascade Books, Eugene, Oregon, 1922, xiii + 218 pp, 34	0
Barbara Lee Johnson (1943–2022)	0
Tel ‘Afar (Tell al-Akhdar): A Monastic or Estate Church on theVia MarisSouth of Caesarea	0
In the Footsteps of Honor Frost: The Life and Legacy of a Pioneer in Maritime Archaeology	0