Description: Following the annexation of Samaria by Sargon II, around 700 BC, a new settlement was established just south of the urban center at Tel Dor. The site, known as Krokodeilon Polis "Crocodile City" to the Greeks, was excavated by the Tanninim Archaeological Project. This volume is a final report of the excavations at this important site
Brief description: Robert R. Stieglitz is Professor of Hebraic Studies and Ancient and Medieval Civilisations and Director of the Ancient & Medieval Civilisations Programme in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures at Rutgers University, Newark.