Tel Moza – Preliminary Report
In April 2019, the first season of excavations of the Tel Moẕa Expedition was conducted at Tel Moẕa (License No. G-18/2019; map ref. 215478–667/633510–784; Fig. 1). The excavation, undertaken on behalf of the Tel Aviv University Institute of Archaeology, was directed by S. Kisilevitz (Field photography) and O. Lipschits (Field photography), with the assistance of A. Spiciarich and V. Linares (area supervisors), V. Pirsky (surveying and drafting), A. Marco (drone photography), N. Ben-Melech (OSL) and Y. Vaknin (paleomagnetic sampling). Students and faculty of the Charles University in Prague and students of the Tel Aviv University Institute of Archaeology participated in the excavation. A controlled backfilling at the conclusion of the excavation was conducted with the help of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) conservation team, headed by F. Abu Ta‘a. We wish to thank the IAA Jerusalem Region, as well as H. Khalaily and Y. Vardi, directors of the large IAA Moẕa Valley excavation project, for their help and support during the excavation. Thanks also go to A. Shavit, V. Gross and E. Ashraf of the Israeli Institute of Archaeology for their logistical support. Technical treatment and processing of the finds will be conducted at the laboratories of Tel Aviv University Institute of Archaeology.