Abu Ghosh, Ha-Arazim Street

In March–May 2014, an excavation was conducted on Ha-Arazim Street in Abu Ghosh (Permit No. A-7051; map ref. 210167/634348; Fig. 1), after the discovery of a coin hoard during antiquities inspection of work on the expansion of Highway 1. The excavation, undertaken on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority and funded by Netivei Israel National Transport Infrastructure Company, was directed by E. Marco and P. Betzer, with the assistance of N. Nehama (administration), R. Mishayev and R. Liran (surveying and drafting), I. Azoulay (plans), S. Gendler (metal detection), A. Peretz (field photography), L. Weinblum and N. Ben-Ari (computing), V. Neichin (spokesperson’s photography), D.T. Ariel (numismatics), R. Bar-Nathan (pottery), V. Nosikovsky (metallurgical laboratory), C. Hersch (finds drawing), C. Amit (studio photography) and T. Gonen (pottery restoration).