‘Atiqot 44, 2003 In December 1996, during the demolition of a building on Spinoza Street in Azor (Fig. 1: 1; map ref. 13156/15902), a tractor damaged a Middle Bronze Age IIB tomb which lay beneath its foundation. The tomb had already suffered considerable damage at the time of the building’s construction. A salvage excavation was undertaken by the IAA in order to document what remained of the tomb and its contents. 1 Dothan (1958:272–273) excavated another MB IIB tomb nearby (Fig. 1:2). This tomb was a burial cave containing pottery, numerous scarabs and remains of horses interred alongside human skeletal remains. The discovery of two Middle Bronze Age tombs at a short distance from each other is not a coincidence but rather an indication that a cemetery once existed in the vicinity. The area continued to function as burial grounds in subsequent periods (Dothan 1993). A MIDDLE BRONZE AGE IIB T OMB AT AZOR AMIR GORZALCZANY, DAPHNA BEN-T OR AND JONATHAN RAND Fig. 1 Location map of the MB IIB tomb discussed in this report (1) and of the tomb published by M. Dothan (2). THE T OMB The remains at Spinoza Street were too sparse to allow us to characterize the tomb’s construction. It had been hewn into the kurkar bedrock, but its outline was unclear. The tomb cavity had filled up with a loose sandy matrix mixed with nodules of eroded kurkar. The finds were concentrated in a relatively small area (0.7 × 1.2 m) in the center of the tomb (Fig. 2). In the northwest part of the tomb some unfired reddish mudbrick material, possibly used for flooring, was uncovered. The small size of the tomb and the presence of this mudbrick material lead us to believe that it was most likely a cist grave. 2 THE FINDS Skeletal Remains The heavily disturbed skeletal remains of at least three individuals in primary burial were recovered from the tomb. Anthropological analysis of the remains reveals that these Fig. 2. Pottery vessels in situ.