| Dates BC | Contents | Context and associated materials | Weights of metals | Primary publications | Disposition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Akko | |||||
| 10th-8th centuries | Hacksilber and ingots, no jewellery. Most pieces were chocolate bar ingots; other shapes included dumps and sheet fragments. | Area A, contained in one of two identical juglets found 'either on a lower floor or in a fill – set in and covered over' (M. Artzy, unpublished Akko field diary entry 7 August 1978). The juglets are the same type that contained the silver at Ein Hofez, also with deliberately cut necks. (Figure 7) | 257.6g silver. It is no longer possible to determine whether the hoard contained any textile remnants. | Dothan 1992, 52 | University of Haifa |
| Dor | |||||
| 11th-10th centuries | One large ceramic 'jar' filled with 17 linen-wrapped bundles of hacksilber and silver ingots (relatively lacking in jewellery). | Area D2 contained a clay 'jug' inserted into a pit under a floor in the southern harbour complex. 'Close to the foundations' and 'between two large buildings'. Clay bullae were found inside the container alongside the bundles. | About 8.5kg. | Stern 1998, 46-51; 2001, 19-26 | Israel Museum |
| Ein Hofez | |||||
| 10th-9th centuries – no later than the 9th century. | Primarily hacksilber, silver ingots. Among the several items of silver jewellery were lunate earrings, 'ladle'-shaped earrings and earrings with the drop-shape attachment, as well as their fragments. | Contained in three Iron IIA-B dipper juglets found in the back room of a four-room house. The juglets were leaning against a wall in between the upper and lower beaten-earth and flagstone floors. The necks of the juglets had been carefully severed to accommodate the silver, and appear to have been hidden intentionally. | Over 1200g | Alexandre 2013 | Israel Antiquities Authority |
| Tell Keisan | |||||
| Second half of the 11th century | Silver and silver mistakenly reported as bronze (Figure 9); includes lunate earrings and pieces of 'bracelets', sheet silver and a bezel/token. | Loc. 635, level 9a between silo 6115 and the room of jars (Loc. 610). Contained in a bichrome flask in a brick wall, either in a hiding place or a niche. Contained four linen-wrapped bundles sealed with unbaked clay bullae and fragments of objects from other disintegrated bundles. | The total weight of the hoard was 354g. The weights of the bundles were 24.5g, 100g, 32g and 25g. Loose objects from disintegrated bundles weighed 172.5g. | Nodet 1980, 325, pl. 132 | Israel Antiquities Authority |
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