Material Culture Matters: Essays on the Archaeology of the Southern Levant in Honor of Seymour Gitin

Published by Penn State University Press 2014

Material Culture Matters

Essays on the Archaeology of the Southern Levant in Honor of Seymour Gitin

Edited by: John R. Spencer , Robert A. Mullins and Aaron J. Brody

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781575068787

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About this book

Dr. Seymour Gitin is completing his tenure as Director and Dorot Professor at the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem. Much of his long career has been spent helping young scholars expand their contacts and hone their skills. This volume is a collection of articles by some of the many developing scholars and Albright fellows with whom Sy has shared his time and knowledge. Their appreciation shows in the quality of their articles, the breadth of their interests, and their dedication to Sy Gitin.

The articles range from a discussion of tomb robbing in Palestinian areas, to a geographical analysis of the Shephelah region, to Islamic historical texts, to Israelite cult stands, to Middle Bronze Age burials. In addition, there are several articles by former members of the Tel Miqne–Ekron staff that draw on the finds from that site and further demonstrate Sy’s willingness to mentor and to share the publication of the site’s rich trove of materials.

This book not only honors Dr. Gitin by the willingness of fellows to contribute to the volume; it also expands our knowledge base of the southern Levant and shows that “Material Culture Matters.”

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface John R. Spencer Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Sy Gitin: A Fellow’s Reminiscences Aaron J. Brody Publicly Available Download PDF	xvi
Personal Reminiscences Robert A. Mullins Publicly Available Download PDF	xviii
Bibliography of Seymour Gitin—Update Publicly Available Download PDF	xxi
The Umayyad Pottery of Palestine Marwan Abu Khalaf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Marked Jar Handles from Tel Miqne–Ekron David Ben-Shlomo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
The Southwestern Border of Judah in the Ninth and Eighth Centuries b.c.e. Jeffrey A. Blakely, James W. Hardin and Daniel M. Master Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Interregional Interaction in the Late Iron Age: Phoenician and Other Foreign Goods from Tell en-Nasbeh Aaron Brody Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Three Middle Bronze II Burials from Tel Zahara Susan L. Cohen and Wiesław Więckowski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
A Late Iron Age Cult Stand from Gezer Garth Gilmour Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Tomb Raiding in Western Ramallah Province, Palestine: An Ethnographic Study Salah Hussein al-Houdalieh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Lambs to the Slaughter: Late Iron Age Cultic Orientations at Philistine Ekron Edward F. Maher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Competing Material Culture: Philistine Settlement at Tel Miqne–Ekron in the Early Iron Age Laura B. Mazow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Mother-and-Child Figurines in the Levant from the Late Bronze Age through the Persian Period Beth Alpert Nakhai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
The Evolution of the Sacred Area at Tell es-Sultan/Jericho Hani Nur el-Din Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
“Ashdod Ware” from Ekron Stratum IV: Degenerated and Late Philistine Decorated Ware Steven M. Ortiz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
New Perspectives on the Chalcolithic Period in the Galilee: Investigations at the Site of Marj Rabba Yorke M. Rowan and Morag M. Kersel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
An Overview of Iron Age Gaza in Light of the Archaeological Evidence Moain Sadeq Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Tobacco Pipes and the Ophir Expedition to Southern Sinai: Archaeological Evidence of Tobacco Smoking among 18th- and 20th-Century Bedouin Squatters Benjamin Adam Saidel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
King David in Mujīr al-Dīn’s Fifteenth-Century History of Jerusalem Robert Schick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
An Iron Age II Tomb at ʿAnata Hamdan Taha Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
The Ups and Downs of Settlement Patterns: Why Sites Fluctuate Joe Uziel, Itzhaq Shai and Deborah Cassuto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
The Horned Stands from Tell Afis and Hazor and the “Crowns” from Nahal Mishmar Alexander Zukerman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309

Language: English
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 344

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Published: May 5, 2014
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