Dr. Mechael Osband

1. Rural sites in the Golan and Galilee during the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods.
2. Archaeometric studies, focusing primarily on pottery through chemical and petrographic analysis (including typology, production sites, and provenance studies), as well as the examination of other materials, such as basalt.
3. The development, architecture, and social significance of ancient synagogues.
4. Director of the Majduliyya Excavations

Innovation and Science in the Archaeology of the Land of Israel
The Ancient Synagogue: History, Archaeology, and Innovations in Research
Pagans, Jews, and Christians in the Hauran during the Roman and Byzantine Periods
The Archaeological Survey
Regional Survey: Golan Heights and Hermon

1. Osband, M. (2024). Terra-cotta Roof Tiles in the Ancient Synagogues of Judaea/Palaestina. Bulletin of the American Society of Overseas Research 392(1), 1–20.
2. אזבנד, מ. 2024. בדיקות אנאליטיות של כלי חרס. קדמוניות 167: 58-56.
3. Osband, M. and Ben David, C. 2024. Inter-site Transfer of Stones from Ancient Public Structures at Rural Sites in the Central Golan Heights. Israel Exploration Journal 74/1: 81–101.

4. Osband, M., Eisenberg, M. and Ferguson, J. R. 2024. XRF Analysis of Village and Urban Basalt Architecture in the Hippos Territorium during the Roman Period. Archaeometry 66,4: 719-738. https://doi–org.ezproxy.haifa.ac.il/10.1111/arcm.12975
5. Osband M. and Shivtiel Y. 2023. A Hiding Complex and Ritual Bath (Miqveh) at Ḥorvat Maskana and the Question of Their Use in the Byzantine Period, Palestine Exploration Quarterly, DOI: 10.1080/00310328.2023.2170115
6. Osband, M. Zingboym, O., Meir, M. and Frumkin, A. 2022. A Survey of the Site and Caves at Tell el-Hawy by the Confluence of the Rukkad and Yarmuk Rivers, Jerusalem Journal of Archaeology, Volume 3, Special Issue: Natural Caves and Underground Artificial Features: 208–232, 3(2).
7. Osband, M. and Arubas, B. 2020. The Excavation of a Roman-Period Village and Synagogue at Majduliyya, Israel Exploration Journal 70/2: 189–214
8. Osband, M., Ben David, C. and Arubas, B. 2020. Roman–period Synagogues of the Golan, Journal of Roman Archaeology 33: 401–416.
9. Osband, M. and Eisenberg, M. 2018. Inter–regional Trade in the Roman Period: A Diachronic Study of the Common Cooking Ware from Hippos of the Decapolis, Tel Aviv, 45(2): 273–288.
10. אזבנד, מ. 2017. כלי חרס מצויים מהתקופה הרומית מחפירות סוסיתא. מכמנים 27: 108-89.