Iron Age Terracotta Figurines from the Southern Levant in Context

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-43676-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 125, 434 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 877 g

Reihe: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East

This interdisciplinary volume is a ‘one-stop location’ for the most up-to-date scholarship on Southern Levantine figurines in the Iron Age. The essays address terracotta figurines attested in the Southern Levant from the Iron Age through the Persian Period (1200–333 BCE). The volume deals with the iconography, typology, and find context of female, male, animal, and furniture figurines and discusses their production, appearance, and provenance, including their identification and religious functions. While giving priority to figurines originating from Phoenicia, Philistia, Jordan, and Israel/Palestine, the volume explores the influences of Egyptian, Anatolian, Mesopotamian, and Mediterranean (particularly Cypriot) iconography on Levantine pictorial material.

Autoren/Hrsg.

D Darby, Erin

J de Hulster, Izaak

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Klassisch (Griechisch & Römisch)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Keramik, Porzellan, Glaskunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

1 Introduction

Erin D. Darby and Izaak J. de Hulster

2 Iron Age Terracotta Figurines from the Levant: A Comparative and Iconographic Perspective

Izaak J. de Hulster

3 A Technical Perspective on Some Iron Age Pillar Figures from Cyprus and the Levant

Annie Caubet

4 Anthropomorphic Figurines from Iron Age II Phoenicia

Astrid Nunn

5 Iron Age Figurines from Philistia

David Ben-Shlomo

6 Iron Age Figurines from Philistia and Phoenicia: A Response

Margaret Cohen

7 Judahite Pillar Figurines: More Questions than Answers

Robert Deutsch

8 Sex in the City? Judean Pillar Figurines and the Archaeology of Jerusalem

Erin D. Darby

9 Response to Darby and Deutsch

Beth Alpert Nakhai

10 Molds and Mold-Links: A Close View on the Female Terracotta Figurines from Iron Age II Transjordan

Regine Hunziker-Rodewald

11 Astarte on Her Horse at Khirbat al-Mudayna in Northern Moab

P.M. Michèle Daviau and Emily Zeran

12 Response to Hunziker-Rodewald and Daviau and Zeran

Margreet L. Steiner

13 The Iron Age Terracotta Figurines from Cyprus

Erin Walcek Averett

14 Iron Age Figurines from Syria

Alexander Pruss

15 Coroplastic Figural Art in Egypt during the Late Period (664–332 BC)

Veit Vaelske

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Erin D. Darby is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee and Co-director of the 'Ayn Gharandal Archaeological Project. Among her publications is the monograph Interpreting Judean Pillar Figurines: Gender and Empire in Judean Apotropaic Ritual (Tübingen, 2014).

Izaak J. de Hulster is Privatdozent at the Theological Faculty of the Georg-August-University Göttingen (Germany) and docent at the Theological Faculty of the University of Helsinki (Finland). He is Associate Director of the Tel Abel Beth Maacah Excavations and has published several monographs and edited volumes, including Figurines in Achaemenid Period Yehud: Jerusalem’s History of Religion and Coroplastics in the Monotheism Debate (Tübingen, 2017).