My Friend Sveta

The young lady sorting pottery pieces is Svetlana [Sveta] Babkinka from Moscow in Russia. She was studying Hebrew History in 1999 and is now Doctor Babkinka and teaches Hebrew history in the Russian University in Moscow.

She is one of the life long friends I met on the Ashkelon dig and even though we have not seen each other since then we keep in touch. She is married with a son Timothy and a child on the way. 

The building in the background is the hotel where we lived during the dig.