Sharon Herbert, one of the Directors of Tel Kedesh

At the end of last week I visited the site for the first time since I had come to Israel. Up until then, I had been dealing with the backlog of registry as I had arrived late. I love to see the site and see where all the objects are coming from which cross my desk.
Sharon Herbert, who is one of the co-directors of the Tel Kedesh excavations, is an old friend of mine and is the one who invited me to participate on the project back in 2006. Three years later she is back at it again for the last field season in this publication cycle and I am back to assist.
Sharon has dug in Israel since the 1970's when Saul Weinberg invited her to participate in the excavations at Tel Anafa, a small tel across the valley at the foot of the Golan heights. She took over that excavation and published not only the years when she directed the project, but the previous 10 years when Saul Weinberg directed. She then went on to co-direct the survey and excavations with henry Wright at Coptos in Egypt. then she came back to israel to dig her in 1997.
We are standing on the edge of the site, on the north side of the Persian and Hellenistic Administrative Building. I am the one wearing a Tilley hat on the right, Sharon is in the baseball cap on the left. Andrew Ossi took the picture with my camera.