Abstract
Two of the Rhodian amphora handles uncovered by the Japanese Expedition at Tel Zeror in 1964-1966 are now located in the Tenri University Sankokan Museum, Tenri, Japan. They were both excavated on the northern mound of Tel Zeror, which was inhabited during the Hellenistic and Roman Periods. They can be dated to the early and mid- second century BCE on the basis of the readings of the eponym/fabricant names on the stamps. The dates are paralleled with one of the three chronologically successive buildings uncovered on the northern mound. The date of the amphorae and the location of the site support the view that Tel Zeror functioned as one of the main stations between the Mediterranean and Samaria in the mid-second century BCE.
