Iron Age Terracotta Figurines from the Southern Levant in Context / / edited by Erin D. Darby, Izaak J. de Hulster.

• Superior document: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East ; 125
• TeilnehmendeR: Darby, Erin D.,; Hulster, Izaak J. de,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden;, Boston : : BRILL,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East ; 125.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

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.

Table of Contents

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.