sorry- and the relationship of honey to the extensive cultic remains
unearthed are discussed

On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 12:18 AM, Barnea Levi Selavan <
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> Currentty there is an exhibition in the Eretz Yisrael Museum in Tel Aviv
> about the 3000 year old industrial apiary found in Tel Rehov in the Jordan
> River Valley, and there is a publication catalog. The excavator is Prof
> Amihai Mazar, emeritus, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. I am sure he
> would be happy to be helpful. The particular type of bee was identified,
> Anatolian bees. An old article- http://www.rehov.org/Rehov/
> publications/Mazar_NEA70_4.pdf.
> http://www.eretzmuseum.org.il/e/345/
>
> The Catalogue I. Ziffer (editor) It Is the Land of Honey. Discoveries from
> Tel Reḥov, the Early Days of the Israelite Monarchy. MUSA-Eretz Israel
> Museum, Tel Aviv, 2016. 256 pp. 171 color illustrations, Hebrew – English
> Available at the Museum Shop, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv Price ILS 80 ($
> 22) ships worldwide, shipping: ca. $ 17 Orders from outside Israel: please
> contact Ms. Anat Yonai, shop director [log in to unmask] Tel.
> 972-3-7455716 <03-745-5716>; 972-547892820 <054-789-2820> (payment is
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>
> Citation: “Industrial apiculture in the Jordan valley during Biblical
> times with Anatolian honey bees,” by Guy Bloch, Tiago Francoy, Ido Wachtel,
> Nava Panitz-Cohen, Stefan Fuchs, and Amihai Mazar. Proceedings of the
> National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 107 No. 23, June 8, 2010.
>
> On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 2:51 PM, Jo Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>> Can anyone recommend some reading on the uses of honey in ancient Greece,
>> and more broadly any anthropological studies of honey and its use in ritual
>> (not limited to Greece, or even to the Mediterranean)? Eva Crane's books
>> are great but very wide-ranging, there is one on Egypt (Tears of Re, by
>> Gene Kritsky) and some details about it in Linear B in Bendall's Economics
>> of Mycenaean Religion. I have plenty of info on ceramic beehives already,
>> so need to provide those.
>> Thanks a lot,
>> Jo
>>
>>
>> Dr Jo Day
>> Lecturer in Greek Archaeology and Classical Museum Curator
>> School of Classics, K211 Newman Building, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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