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Nessana Expedition
Excavation Reports
Colt H.D. 1962. Excavations at Nessana 1 (Auja Hafir, Palestine). London.
Casson L. and Hettich E.L. 1950. Excavations at Nessana 2: Literary Papyri. Princeton.
Kraemer C.J. 1958. Excavations at Nessana 3: Non-Literary Papyri. Princeton.
Urman D. 2004. Nessana: Excavations and Studies (Beer-Sheva XVII). Beer Sheva.
Tchekhanovets Y. 2022. Nessana 2022. Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel 134 (forthcoming).
Selected Studies
Stroumsa R. 2008. “People and Identities in Nessana”. PhD Dissertation, Duke University.
Hoyland R. 2015. The Protection (Dhimma) of God and Muhammad in Early Islam: P. Nessana 77 Re-discovered. In: B. Sadeghi, A. Ahmed, A. Silverstein and R. Hoyland (eds.), Islamic Cultures, Islamic Contexts: Essays in Honor of Professor Patricia Crone. Leiden and Boston. Pp. 51-71.
Hoyland R. 2021. P. Nessana 56: A Greek-Arabic Contract from the Early Islamic Palestine and its Context. Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 51: 133-148.
Hoyland R. 2021. The Arabic Papyri from Early Islamic Nessana. Israel Exploration Journal 71/2: 224-241.
Pogorelsky O., Stone M.E. and Tchekhanovets Y. 2019. Armenians in the Negev: Evidence from Nessana. Le Muséon 132/1-2: 123-137.
Bar-Oz G. et al. 2019. Ancient Trash Mounds Unravel Urban Collapse a Century before the End of Byzantine Hegemony in the Southern Levant. Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences.
Marom N. et al. 2019. Zooarchaeology and the Social and Economic Upheavals of Late Antique – Early Islamic Sequence of the Negev Desert. Nature Scientific Reports.
Fuks D. et al. 2021. The Rise and Fall of Viticulture in the Late Antique Negev Highlands Reconstructed from Archaeobotanical and Ceramic Data. Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences.
Auja al-Hafir
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