In September 2019, a salvage excavation was conducted near the seashore in the northern part of Ashqelon (Permit No. A-8595; map ref. 158843–921/622203–70; Fig. 1). The excavation, conducted on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority and funded by the Ashqelon Municipality, was directed by D. Eisenberg-Degen (field photography), with the assistance of Y. Alamor (administration), M. Kahan (surveying and drafting) E. Aladjem (drone photography), A. Azoulay (drafting), S. Ganor (metal detection), E. Gyrman-Levanon (digital scanning), T. Winter (glass finds; see Appendix 1), A. Ganor (glass restoration), C. Hersch (glass drawings), D. Gazit (glass and pottery photography), I. Reznitsky (metal lab), R. Kool, L. Sandberg and I. Baidoun (coin identification), H. Sokolov (numismatic report; see Appendix 2) and N. Lect Ben Ami (study of imported red-slip bowls).
Davida Eisenberg-Degen (Sun,) studied this question.