Beth Shean Studies

"The Hellenistic inscription and Roman marble portrait head of Alexander the Great that are the subjects of this monograph were discovered by the Palestine Expedition of the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania (now the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, hereafter "Penn Museum") in 1925 as part of excavations that were conducted from 1921 to 1933 at Beth Shean in the British Mandate for Palestine with a permit from the Mandatory Department of Antiquities. The Beth Shean excavation was focused on the very important Bronze Age-Early Iron Age levels of the tell and the site's biblical connections, and not especially on its Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, or Islamic periods"--