Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies最新文献

{"title":"Beyond “Volute Capitals”: Materials, Meaning, and Adaptations of a Phoenician Motif","authors":"Fanni Faegersten, Carolina López-Ruiz","doi":"10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.11.2-3.0229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.11.2-3.0229","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The stylized volute motif is attested throughout the Levant and in areas of Phoenician settlement or cultural influence. Much of the debate of this motif has focused on the volute’s appearance in Israelite monumental architecture (the so-called Proto-Aeolic capital). This article provides a fresh discussion of the motif’s depiction within Phoenician art and iconography through various media, including ivory and sculpture. The architectural versions in stone derive from a much larger repertoire in portable media and in wood, which included inlaying techniques and color patterns not easily transferable into stone. This essay stresses the symbolic meaning of the volute motif and its adaptability by other Mediterranean cultures, from Israel and Cyprus to Iberia. The volute, moreover, has the quality of an otherworldly hybrid entity, strongly associated with hybrid creatures and other stylized vegetal motifs invoking eternal regeneration, which explains the use of the motif in funerary and sacred contexts.","PeriodicalId":43115,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135685977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Architecture and Afterlife: Small Portable Shrines and Ritual Activities from Tyre to Ibiza","authors":"Adriano Orsingher","doi":"10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.11.2-3.0256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.11.2-3.0256","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The miniaturization of architecture in past and modern societies is a cross-cultural phenomenon, which has received enormous attention in scholarship, particularly in works relating to the Bronze and Iron Age eastern Mediterranean. This article focuses on some small-scale terracotta buildings known from Phoenicia around the seventh to the sixth centuries BCE, argues for their identification as portable shrines, compares them to similar examples from Cyprus, and includes finds from Carthage, Malta, and Ibiza in the discussion. All of this evidence reflects a time when small chapels were increasingly adopted in Phoenician architecture, reproduced at different scales in multiple media, and used in a variety of contexts. Finally, Tyre al-Bass Tomb 8 and other funerary assemblages yielding portable shrines support the idea that they were the focus of ritual activities at burial sites, and their deposition may have followed their use in practices involving storytelling, the libation of scented liquids, and/or the burning of aromatic substances.","PeriodicalId":43115,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135685979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Funerary Artifacts from Roman Ashkelon and the Rockefeller Collections","authors":"T. Erickson-Gini, Alegre Savariego","doi":"10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.11.1.0082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.11.1.0082","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:In 2019, an excavation carried out at the site of Er-Rasm, located ca. 2 km southeast of Tel Ashkelon, revealed evidence of a cemetery of the second to mid-fourth century CE in an area that was built over by a monastic community in the fifth century CE. The finds from the cemetery, a lead coffin decorated with vine scrolls and birds in repeating panels and associated artifacts such as gold threads, are comparable to those unearthed in the same general area in 1926 at Khirbet Khasis, as well as to other lead coffins found in Jerusalem and Ashdod-Yam. In addition, parts of a marble sarcophagus with carved features were discovered at Er-Rasm. These features indicate that the sarcophagus was carved with the scene of the abduction of Persephone, just like the complete example uncovered elsewhere in Ashkelon in 1972.","PeriodicalId":43115,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies","volume":"189 1","pages":"104 - 82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79463159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From the Editors","authors":"Sandra A. Scham, Ann E. Killebrew, Gabriele Faßbeck","doi":"10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.11.1.v","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.11.1.v","url":null,"abstract":"Welcome to our first issue of 2023. Our readers will find that the articles that follow are quite diverse in terms of the methods, theories, and regions they describe. They do, however, have one significant thing in common. As archaeologists have come to realize that excavation is not the only way to address archaeological questions, they are turning, much more, to less destructive means to find out about the past. Conducting surface surveys, examining museum collections, making better use of remote sensing data, reanalyzing previously excavated materials, and archival research are no longer seen as “auxiliary” methods to excavation but, rather, as stand-alone approaches to understanding earlier cultures.“Pathways to Know and Sidetracks to Forget,” is a discussion by Faidon Moudopoulos-Athanasiou about the interweaving of nineteenth-century travelers’ accounts and systematic modern surveys. Using the region of Zagori in northwestern Greece as a case study, the author describes how both historical and modern reflections on cultural landscapes that are informed by walking those very landscapes facilitate the formation of a detailed view of the peoples who inhabited them. Promoting the idea of an “inclusive landscape archaeology,” Moudopoulos-Athanasiou suggests that the study of historical walks combined with a modern archaeologist’s survey expertise can inform appropriate heritage management of a region, which will benefit tourists as much as residents.Mustafa Nuri Tatbul and Deniz Burcu Erciyas, authors of “The Potential of Quantified Surface Data in Understanding the Rural Landscapes of Byzantine Komana,” describe their surveys at this site in Turkey and the late ninth- through twelfth-century churches and settlements they discovered. Scholars have reasoned that this was a time when building small churches became a trend, as rural settlements and monastic communities grew. The authors use a “mixed methods” approach to survey methodologies against the theory of rural revival at a regional level. Utilizing qualitative data from previous surveys for information and comparison, they revisited the identified sites to test whether the identifications of these churches could be verified by quantitative analyses.In a very interesting geographic departure from the countries that are the journal’s usual focus, this issue contains an article about Saudi Arabia. Undeniably, the cultures of Arabia and the Ancient Near East co-existed, communicated, and traded in the very distant past. Unfortunately, unlike the Near East, many sites in Saudi Arabia remain unstudied, so it has been difficult to establish its true place in the region’s history. Concentrating on “Monumental Stone Structure Archaeology” in the Al Ha’it oasis of northwest Saudi Arabia, authors Ahmed Nassr, Ahmed Elhassan, Ali Tueaiman, and Mohammed al-Hajj show how an intensive desktop archaeological survey using remote sensing, followed by traditional archaeological survey and excavations reveals","PeriodicalId":43115,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134940690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Digging Up Jericho: Past, Present and Future","authors":"M. Sala","doi":"10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.11.1.0132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.11.1.0132","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43115,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies","volume":"204 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73936062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Potential of Quantified Surface Data in Understanding the Rural Landscapes of Middle Byzantine Komana","authors":"Mustafa Tatbul, D. Erciyas","doi":"10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.11.1.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.11.1.0021","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:The Middle Byzantine period in Anatolia is considered a recovery period after two centuries of instability at the end of the Early Byzantine period. From the late ninth through the twelfth centuries, building small churches became a trend as rural settlements and monastic communities expanded across the countryside. During extensive surveys at Komana, near Tokat in Turkey, a number of churches were identified in rural contexts through scattered architectural fragments, especially brickwork typical of the Middle Byzantine period. These sites were later revisited for intensive collection in an attempt, firstly, to test whether identification of Middle Byzantine churches through qualitative data could be verified and, secondly, to improve our understanding of site types and their extent in the rural landscapes of Middle Byzantine Komana. In this article, the results of the intensive surveys will be discussed in the context of the new trends of the Middle Byzantine period.","PeriodicalId":43115,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies","volume":"88 1","pages":"21 - 44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80203724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Monumental Stone Structure Archaeology in Northwest Saudi Arabia: New Investigations from the Al Ha’it Oasis","authors":"A. Nassr, Ahmed Elhassan, Ali Tueaiman, Mohammed Al-Hajj","doi":"10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.11.1.0045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.11.1.0045","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Increased archaeological fieldwork in Saudi Arabia is contributing toward a more precise general idea about ancient Arabia. Moreover, the history of Arabian archaeology demonstrates that major discoveries and advances have been achieved as a result of systematic field enterprises. However, several regions in Saudi Arabia remain unstudied. One such major area is Ha’il in the north. Our intensive desktop-archaeological survey using remote sensing revealed the region’s archaeological richness. Several monumental structures were observed in the al Ha’it oasis. Based on those findings, we conducted an archaeological survey and excavations, resulting in the discovery of eight new archaeological sites. Three major types of funerary stone structures identified in this area include pendants, tumuli, and tower tombs. In addition, we encountered mustatils and kites of the Neolithic and Bronze Age. This article presents the investigations carried out in these new sites and places them within the context of Arabian archaeology.","PeriodicalId":43115,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies","volume":"49 1","pages":"45 - 81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82567707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pathways to Know and Sidetracks to Forget: Walking and the Montane Cultural Landscape of Zagori (Northwestern Greece)","authors":"Faidon Moudopoulos-Athanasiou, Mustafa Tatbul, D. Erciyas, A. Nassr, Ahmed Elhassan, Ali Tueaiman, Mohammed Al-Hajj, T. Erickson-Gini, Alegre Savariego, N. Stanley-Price, S. Wolff, C. Delage, S. Fourrier, C. S. Parmenter, M. Sala, Sandra A. Scham, Ann E. Killebrew, G. Fassbeck","doi":"10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.11.1.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.11.1.0001","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:The present essay addresses the different ways of walking in a cultural landscape as a tool to interpret its heritage. From the nineteenth-century travelers to the contemporary regional archaeological surveys, walking plays a crucial role in shaping our understanding of place. Past ways of walking archived in primary sources, contemporary interpretations of montane cultural landscapes, and the ways of walking in the present reveal different attitudes to heritage. This article investigates the region of Zagori in northwestern Greece as a case study to approach different walks, past and present, related both to remembering and forgetting, through the perspectives of dwelling, inhabiting, and gazing at the cultural landscape of Zagori.","PeriodicalId":43115,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies","volume":"7 1","pages":"1 - 104 - 105 - 118 - 119 - 124 - 125 - 126 - 126 - 128 - 128 - 132 - 132 - 137 - 20 - 21 - 44 - 45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76451948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Flint Procurement and Exploitation Strategies in the Late Lower Paleolithic Levant: A View from Acheulo-Yabrudian Qesem Cave (Israel) by Aviad Agam (review)","authors":"C. Delage","doi":"10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.11.1.0125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.11.1.0125","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43115,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies","volume":"4 1","pages":"125 - 126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78467525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Iron Age Terracotta Figurines from the Southern Levant in Context","authors":"Sabine Fourrier","doi":"10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.11.1.0126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.11.1.0126","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43115,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81972885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}