Publications by the Ramat Rael Expedition PREFACE Oded Lipschits, Manfred Oeming and Yuval Gadot PART I: INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 STRATEGIC LOCATION AND NATURAL SURROUNDINGS Oded Lipschits, Yuval Gadot and Manfred Oeming CHAPTER 2 THE ANCIENT NAME OF THE SITE Oded Lipschits and Nadav Na'aman CHAPTER 3 HISTORY OF RESEARCH Oded Lipschits, Yuval Gadot and Manfred Oeming CHAPTER 4 THE RENEWED EXCAVATIONS OF THE TEL AVIV- HEIDELBERG EXPEDITION Yuval Gadot, Liora Freud, Manfred Oeming and Oded Lipschits PART II: AREA REPORTS CHAPTER 5 AREAS A1, B1 AND B3 WITH AN EMPHASIS ON THE CEMETERY Keren Ras CHAPTER 6 AREA B2 Boaz Gross CHAPTER 7 AREA C1 Nitsan Shalom and Boaz Gross CHAPTER 8 AREA C2 Assaf Kleiman CHAPTER 9 AREA D1 Efrat Bocher and Lisa Yehuda CHAPTER 10 AREA D2 Shatil Emmanuilov CHAPTER 11 AREA D3: COURTYARD 380, THE INNER GATE AND BUILDING 468 Ido Koch CHAPTER 12 AREA D4 Omer Sergi CHAPTER 13 AREA D6 Ido Koch and Nirit Kedem CHAPTER 14 SURVEY AND EXCAVATIONS OF SUBTERRANEAN FEATURES BETWEEN AREAS D6 AND C1 Uri Davidovich and Roi Porat CHAPTER 15 AREA UG7: THE SOUTHERN COLUMBARIUM Uri Davidovich CHAPTER 16 AREA T: SURVEY AND EXCAVATIONS ON THE WESTERN SLOPE Uri Davidovich and Naomi Porat PART III: SYNTHESIS CHAPTER 17 SITE FORMATION AT RAMAT RAEL: THE NATURAL TOPOGRAPHY AND CHANGES MADE DURING ITS HISTORY Nirit Kedem, Yuval Gadot and Oded Lipschits CHAPTER 18 THE ANCIENT GARDEN AND ITS WATER INSTALLATIONS Boaz Gross, Yuval Gadot and Oded Lipschits CHAPTER 19 TWENTIETH CENTURY FORTIFICATIONS Efrat Bocher CHAPTER 20 DECONSTRUCTION AND RECONSTRUCTION: REEVALUATING THE FIVE EXPEDITIONS TO RAMAT RAEL Oded Lipschits, Yuval Gadot and Manfred Oeming LIST OF LOCI.