Position: Professor of Classical Archaeology, Department of
Classical Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Biographical data:
Born 1945 at Brasov, Romania
Immigrated to Israel: 1970
Military service in the IDF, 1971-1972
Member of Tel Aviv University staff, since 1972
Familiar status: Married with Greta (51), Head of the Department
of Periodicals, Faculty of Social Sciences Library, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Two sons,
Yair (25, student at Technion, Haifa) and Shay (17, High School student).
Membership in international organizations:
Advisory Board of the Journal of Roman Archaeology (Ann Arbor)
German Institute of Archaeology (DAI)
Association of Marble Studies (ASMOSIA)
Association of Classical Studies
Education:
High School: Brasov, Romania (1958-1963)
University of Bucharest, Romania: MA in Ancient History and Archaeology (1968)
University of Basle, Switzerland (1974/75)
Tel Aviv University: PhD, 1980.
Teaching experience:
Tel Aviv University (since 1975)
Oberlin College, Ohio, US (1996)
Department of Classics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. (1996)
Professional experience:
1 . Co-director of archaeological projects En Boqeq, Mazad Tamar (with Prof.
M. Gichon), Qedesh (with Profs. A. Ovadiah and I. Roll).
2 . Director of archaeological projects Khorvat Mazad (1977-1980), Khorvat Zikrin
(1982-1989), and Yavneh-Yam (since 1992).
3 . Head of archaeological research projects ‘Architectural decoration of
Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Israel’ and "Pottery of Hellenistic, Roman and
Byzantine Israel’.
4. Head of the "Yavneh-Yam
Archaeological Project"
Books:
1 . Das korinthische Kapitell im Alten Israel in der hellenistischen und roemischen
Periode (Mainz, 1990).
2 . Marble Studies - Roman Palestine and the Marble Trade (Konstanz, 1998).
3 . Roman Roads in Judaea II: The Roads from Jaffa to Jerusalem (BAR International Series,
Oxford, 1996)
(with B. Isaac and I. Roll).
4 . Yavneh-Yam and its Neighborhood
(Jerusalem, 1993, Hebrew).
Textbook:
Daily Life in Classical Greece, in: The Open University of Israel, Course
‘Classical Greece’, Unit 11 (Tel Aviv, 1980, Hebrew).
Articles:
1 . The Roman Temple at Kedesh (Upper Galilee). A Preliminary Report, Tel Aviv. Journal of
the Institute of Archaeology 11, 1984, 148-172 (with A. Ovadiah and I. Roll).
2 . The Corinthian Capitals of the Capernaum Synagogue: A Revision, Levant 18, 1986,
131-142.
3 . Die Strassenstation von Horvath Masad (hirbet el qasr): Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des
Weges von Jerusalem nach Emmaus, Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palaestina-Vereins, 103, 1987,
117-136.
4 . Figured Capitals in Roman Palestine. Marble Imports and Local Stone: Some Aspects of
‘Imperial’ and ‘Provincial’ Art, Archaeologischer Anzeiger 1991,
119-144.
5 . Isotopic and Artistic Appraisal of Corinthian Capitals from Caesarea Maritima: A Case
Study, in: Caesarea Papers (Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series 5) (Ann
Arbor 1992), 214-221. (with M. Magaritz and Z. Pearl).
6 . A Judean Contribution to Roman Decoration: An Ornamented Stone from the Temple Mount
Reconsidered, Israel Exploration Journal 43, 1993, 235-240.
7 . Historical and philological observations on marmorarii in Byzantine Palestine in the
light of two Greek inscriptions, Mediterranean Language Review 8, 1994, 20-40.
8 . Josephus and the use of marble in building projects of Herod the Great, Journal of
Jewish Studies 45, 1994, 79-85 (with A. Stein).
9 . The Basilica of Ascalon: Marble, Imperial Art and Architecture in Roman Palestine, in:
New Researches in the Near East (Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series 14)
(Ann Arbor, 1995), pp. 120-150 (with contributions by A. Krug and Z. Pear l).
10 . Marble Imports and Marmorarii in Eretz Israel during the Roman and Byzantine Periods,
in: R. Katzoff, ed., Classical Studies in Honor of David Sohlberg (Ramat Gan, 1996),
319-352. (with T. Grossmark).
11 . The material culture of the site of Tel ‘Ira from the Hellenistic to the
Byzantine period (2nd century BCE - 7th century CE), in: Y. Beit Arieh, ed., Tel ‘Ira
- The Archaeology and History of a site in the Negev, Israel (Series of the Researches o f
the Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, Israel) (Tel Aviv, 1997) (with O. Tal).
1 . Greek and Roman art (course).
2 . Archaeology of Israel during the Hellenistic and Roman periods.
3 . Hellenistic pottery in Israel (Proseminar)
4 . Religions in Hellenistic and Roman Israel in the light of archaeological evidence
1 . Greco-Jewish relationship in the
Hellenistic period
2 . Settlement patterns in the Near East in Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantien periods
3 . Hellenistic and Roman pottery
4 . Hellenistic and Roman architecture
Professor Moshe L. Fischer
Department of Classical Studies Tel Aviv University (TAU)
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