ירושלים, מפעל סינון העפר מהר הבית

In 2018-2019, the archaeological Temple Mount Sifting operation was at a limited scope, and on June 2019 was fully resumed at a new location (License Nos. G-12/2018, G-42/2019; map ref. 223137/632797). The authors initiated the project in late 2004 under the auspices of Bar-Ilan University and with the assistance of the Israel Nature and Parks Authority. From 2005 to early in 2017, the sifting operation was funded and operated by the Ir David Foundation. Since June 2019, the sifting is conducted at the Miẓpe Ha-Masu'ot complex on Mount Scopus (map ref. 223484/632893) and financed by private donors through the Israel Archaeology Foundation. As of 2011, the research and publication of the finds have been carried out at the sifting project's laboratory in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Talpiot, with ongoing funding by the Israel Archaeology Foundation. The sifting project is directed by Z. Dvira and G. Barkay, assisted in 2018-2019 by Y. Farhi, O. Cohen-Klonymus, Y. Marcus, H. Shaham, A. Avraham, A. Greener and D. Gutreich (archaeological management of sifting process), D. Shani (drawing, research administration assistant, gaming pieces), I. Dashberg and H. Elboim (administration and finances), H. Cohen-Klonymus (research director, data processing, weights, stoneware and flint items), F. Snyder (opus sectile, glass bracelets, glass rings, beads, cross pendants), H. Richman (Iron Age and Persian pottery, modern weapons), P. Reuven (Hellenistic-Early Islamic pottery), I. Eisenstadt (preliminary pottery and bone sorting), H. Mienis (shells and mollusks), A. Greener (figurines), D. Gutreich (glass, Crusader pottery), N. Ahipaz (pre-Byzantine numismatics), R. Kool (medieval numismatics), A. Berman (Early and Late Islamic numismatics), B. Brandl (Egyptian glyptography), R. Buchnik (archaeozoology), Y. Marcus (stucco, fresco and plaster), S. Amurai-Stark and M. Hershkovitz (gems and metal rings), K. Shwartsman (pottery research assistant), T. Pace (keys), J. Damm (organic residue analysis), G. Ludvik (semi-precious stone beads), Y. Elkayam (semi-precious stones), R. Richman and Y. Luban (drawing), T. Rogovski and Z. Radovan (photography), M. Lavi (coin conservation and cleaning), O. Cohen (conservation of architectural features, metals, and coin cleaning), D. Lavita (material identification and geological consultation), S. Sapir and M. Swirsky (sorting and processing finds for statistical analysis), and J. Greene and D. Shani (public relations and online content).