Tel Shush

Tel Shush (Hebrew: תל שוש) or Tell Abu Shusha (Arabic: تل أبو شوشة) is a tell located next to Kibbutz Mishmar HaEmek on the eastern slopes of the Menashe Heights, overlooking the Jezreel Valley.

The ceramic finds include a red slipware bowl, a fine-ware cup and a skyphos with barbotine decoration.

Other finds include a bowl, a juglet, "Herodian" lamps and fragments of a figurine of a horse with a rider.

This discovery further contributes to the identification of Tel Shush with Geva Parashim ("Geba of the Horsemen"), mentioned by Josephus in The Jewish War 3.3.1), while others suggest that it may have been brought there from another place.

[4][5] A 1.2 meter high Roman aqueduct was discovered during the expansion of the Mishmar HaEmek–Ein HaShofet road next to Tel Shush.

An illustration of a lead weight (62x55mm, 212.2 gram) found at Tel Shush, with Greek inscription of the city "Gabe", identified as Geva' Parashim.