TY - JOUR
T1 - An ivory bowl from Early Iron Age Tell es-Safi/Gath (Israel)
T2 - manufacture, meaning and memory
AU - Maeir, Aren M.
AU - Davis, Brent
AU - Horwitz, Liora Kolska
AU - Asscher, Yotam
AU - Hitchcock, Louise A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Taylor & Francis.
PY - 2015/5/27
Y1 - 2015/5/27
N2 - Abstract: In 2013, an ivory bowl was discovered in a chalky matrix in the Early Iron Age (Philistine) levels in Area A at Tell es-Safi/Gath. Conservation revealed it to be a shallow vessel with a single lug handle, decorated in the interior and on the base with an incised twelve-petal lotus-rosette surrounded by five concentric circles. Applying an object biography approach, we investigate the history and far-flung socio-cultural connections of the Tell es-Safi/Gath bowl, which is unique within Philistia. Specific reference is made to parallels in the ivory hoard from the Late Bronze/Iron Age transition (c. late twelfth century/early eleventh century bce) palace at Megiddo, Stratum VIIA. It is proposed that the Tell es-Safi/Gath bowl was one of a set manufactured somewhere in Canaan. The vessel became separated from the set, ending up as a foundation offering at this Philistine site.
AB - Abstract: In 2013, an ivory bowl was discovered in a chalky matrix in the Early Iron Age (Philistine) levels in Area A at Tell es-Safi/Gath. Conservation revealed it to be a shallow vessel with a single lug handle, decorated in the interior and on the base with an incised twelve-petal lotus-rosette surrounded by five concentric circles. Applying an object biography approach, we investigate the history and far-flung socio-cultural connections of the Tell es-Safi/Gath bowl, which is unique within Philistia. Specific reference is made to parallels in the ivory hoard from the Late Bronze/Iron Age transition (c. late twelfth century/early eleventh century bce) palace at Megiddo, Stratum VIIA. It is proposed that the Tell es-Safi/Gath bowl was one of a set manufactured somewhere in Canaan. The vessel became separated from the set, ending up as a foundation offering at this Philistine site.
KW - Aegean
KW - Canaanite
KW - Late Bronze/Iron Age transition
KW - Levant
KW - Philistine
KW - elephant ivory
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U2 - 10.1080/00438243.2015.1009154
DO - 10.1080/00438243.2015.1009154
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AN - SCOPUS:84930086557
SN - 0043-8243
VL - 47
SP - 414
EP - 438
JO - World Archaeology
JF - World Archaeology
IS - 3
ER -