AbstractThe article discusses the over one thousand individual dog burials discovered in Persian period Ashkelon. It reviews various theories regarding the burials, deals with possible origins of the phenomenon, cites recent relevant material discovered in the southern Levant and suggests two new theories concerning the dog burials at Ashkelon.
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