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"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"--
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Irene Bald Romano, PhD, holds joint positions as Professor of Art History in the School of Art and Professor of Anthropology in the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona; she is also Curator of Mediterranean Archaeology at the Arizona State Museum. Dr. Romano is an archaeologist with broad interests in research on Mediterranean archaeological objects, especially Greek and Roman sculpture.
Kyle W. Mahoney, PhD, teaches at Swarthmore College in the Department of Classics. He is an ancient historian and archaeologist specializing in the study of ancient Greek inscriptions and is engaged more broadly in the study of ancient Mediterranean religions.
Dimitris Tambakopoulos, PhD, is a former postdoctoral fellow and research associate at the Laboratory of Archaeometry of the National Centre for Scientific Research "Demokritos." His main research interests and expertise focus on the scientific determination of provenance and movement of marble in antiquity as well as statistical techniques.
Yannis Maniatis, PhD, is Research Director
Emeritus at the National Centre for Scientific Research "Demokritos." He is an archaeological scientist, creator, and former Director of the Laboratory of Archaeometry. His main research interests and expertise are the provenance and movement of marble in antiquity, radiocarbon dating, and ceramic technology.
