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{"title":"attīma nannarat šamê u erṣetim—“You Are the Light of Heaven and Earth”","authors":"Takayoshi M. Oshima","doi":"10.1086/724781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/724781","url":null,"abstract":"This article is an in-depth study of two cylinders seals with the goddess in a nimbus from the Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem. It is commonly accepted that the goddess in a nimbus is Ishtar (Inana in Sumerian), the goddess of love and war. Although Ishtar is one of the best-attested motifs on ancient Mesopotamian seals, the appearance of the goddess surrounded by rays of light—reminiscent of Roman Catholic imagery of the Virgin Mary surrounded by sunshine—is limited primarily to the period between the eighth and seventh centuries BCE. This article offers an insight into the iconography of this mysterious goddess, as well as a glimpse of a small portion of the Bible Lands Museum Seal Collection, probably one of the largest such collections in the world.","PeriodicalId":51934,"journal":{"name":"NEAR EASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41716220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Front Matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1086/725785","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725785","url":null,"abstract":"Previous articleNext article FreeFront MatterPDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Near Eastern Archaeology Volume 86, Number 2June 2023 A journal of ASOR Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/725785 Views: 17Total views on this site Copyright © 2023 by the American Society of Overseas ResearchPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.","PeriodicalId":51934,"journal":{"name":"NEAR EASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135626052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"In Situ Implementation of Imaging Techniques Reveals Key Motifs in the Early Byzantine Wall Painting of Christ’s Baptism at Shivta, Israel","authors":"R. Linn, Emma Maayan-Fanar, Y. Tepper","doi":"10.1086/723457","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723457","url":null,"abstract":"Following the rediscovery of the Early Byzantine wall painting of Christ’s baptism in the northern church of Shivta in southern Israel, the painting was investigated with different imaging techniques in order to clarify the scene and to find additional painted motifs and hidden colors and patterns. Besides high-quality photography from close distance on a scaffolding at 3.5 m height, thus at the level of the painting, Near IR photography (NIR), UV wavelengths microscopy, and Visible Induced Luminescence (VIL) imaging were all conducted in order to collect new information on the painting. The combination of several imaging techniques provided new and surprising details on elements of the painting, especially revealing blue color around the head and shoulders of Christ, most probably reminiscent of the River Jordan where the baptism took place.","PeriodicalId":51934,"journal":{"name":"NEAR EASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46586366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fiscal Year 2022 Honor Roll","authors":"","doi":"10.1086/724671","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/724671","url":null,"abstract":"Previous articleNext article FreeFiscal Year 2022 Honor RollPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreBenefactor ($20,000 and up)Arnold and Porter, LLC (in kind) ∞Sheila Bishop ∞Stevan B. Dana ‡Sharon Herbert ‡Eric and Carol Meyers ∞David Rosenstein ∞Wayne R. Shepard ◊Carolyn Midkiff Strange ∞Patron ($10,000–$19,999)Sonya and Richard Coffman ‡W. Mark Lanier Theological Library ‡Elmar P. SakalaJoe D. Seger ∞Friend ($5,000–$9,999)Susan Ackerman ∞Anonymous ∞Anonymous ◊Ted Dodd and Lynn Swartz Dodd ‡Jane DeRose Evans ‡Ann-Marie Knoblauch ‡Mark W. MeehlTimothy PottsAnn V. Sahlman ◊Andy and Amy Vaughn ∞Sponsor ($1,000–$4,999)AnonymousAnonymousAnonymousAndrea Berlin ◊Jeffrey A. Blakely and Brauna Hartzell ∞Emily Miller Bonney ◊James Bucko ◊Frances Cahill ◊Sheldon and Debbie Fox ∞Lawrence T. Geraty ∞Denise L. GoldTimothy P. Harrison ∞Michael Hasel ◊Peyton R. Helm ◊Carol Landes ∞Albert Leonard ◊Alex and Bridget MacAllister ◊Byron R. McCane ◊Jenna MortonRichard F. Natarian ‡Cindy O’BryanWilliam RaynoldsB. W. Ruffner ∞H. Katharine Sheeler ‡Abraham Sofaer and Marian Scheuer Sofaer ◊Joseph J. Weinstein ∞Donald Whitcomb and Janet JohnsonJeanine Young-MasonSustainer ($500–$999)Matthew J. Adams ∞William S. Andreas ∞Kate BirneyDouglas Clark ‡Robert and Erin DarbyP. M. Michèle Daviau ◊Geoff Emberling ◊Steven E. Falconer and Patricia FallPaul V. M. Flesher ‡Paul Gaylo ∞Seymour Gitin ∞James Hardin ◊Roger IsaacsBrian L. JanewayJames F. Joyner III ‡Melissa Bailey KutnerØystein and Asta LaBianca ∞Barbara MeyerRobert A. Mullins ∞Beth Alpert Nakhai ∞Suzanne Richard ∞Jonathan Rosenbaum ◊Ann K. StehneyJeanne Marie Teutonico ◊Jason UrJane C. Waldbaum ∞Randall Younker ∞Supporter ($250–$499)Lisa Marilyn Ackerman ◊Gary Arbino ∞Lamar Barden ‡Theodore Burgh ◊Randy CorbetPearce Paul Creasman ◊Paul FitzpatrickDavid FosseCatherine P. Foster ‡Joe FurrAlison Acker GrusekeDavid Ilan ‡Morag M. Kersel and Yorke M. RowanCarroll Kobs ◊Duane KratzerThomas and Alina LevyDale Manor ‡Stefania MazzoniPiotr MichalowskiSteven and Karen OstovichBarbara A. Porter ∞Jennifer Ramsay ◊Thomas RobyBruce Romanic ◊Jennifer SchneiderJohn R. Spencer ‡Ricardo St. HilaireJames Riley StrangeStuart SwinyAldo Tamburrino and Violeta TavantzisDwight Tawney ◊Matthew Luke VincentJames L. Walker ‡World History by a JewContributor ($100–$249)Anne AarnesRandy Akers ∞Nancy Allen-TicknerAndrews UniversityAnonymousMichal ArtzyCarolina A. AznarJeanne BaileyRandall C. Bailey ◊Brenda Baker ◊Ivy BatoriNorman A. BeckLeigh-Ann Bedal ◊Dianne BentonCelia BergoffenHal BonnetteOded Borowski ∞Karen Borstad ◊Roger BoveMichael BoyceMargaret BrandtJeffrey S. BrindleAaron BrodyWilfred F. Bunge ◊Cynthia Ruth Burdge ◊John CampEdward F. CampbellChristopher Carr ◊Tony W. CartledgeHanan Charaf ∞Scott ChesworthGary L. ChristophersonW. Malcolm Clark ∞Kay Granberry ClementsEric Cline ◊Margaret E. Cohen ‡Kevin CooneyJohn DashElif Denel ◊Hel","PeriodicalId":51934,"journal":{"name":"NEAR EASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136246356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tell It Like It Is","authors":"Marta Lorenzon, Antti Lahelma, Maher Tarboush, Elisabeth Holmqvist, Dries Daems, Saimi Kautonen, Joanna Töyräänvuori, Stefan L. Smith, Benjamín Cutillas-Victoria, Maija Holappa, H. al-Sababha, A. Al-Shorman","doi":"10.1086/723459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723459","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents the results of a joint Finnish-Jordanian survey project that focuses on investigating the interrelations of the imperial heartlands and the Levantine region in the Late Bronze and Iron Ages. We used historical satellite images to identify potential sites on the northern Jordanian plateau, after which they were systematically investigated by archaeological survey. Of the sites discovered, the fortified site of Tell al-Assara stands out owing to its prominent location, as indicated by a visibility analysis, and its massive enceinte wall made of ashlars. One of the pottery sherds found at the site bears an inscription in Aramaic. Although Tell al-Assara is remarkably well preserved, many of the sites discovered were already badly damaged by looting and urban development. These alarming developments can only be countered by closely involving local communities in fieldwork projects working in the region.","PeriodicalId":51934,"journal":{"name":"NEAR EASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46895137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Indus-Style Stone Beads in the Late Third-Millennium BCE Southern Levant","authors":"Geoffrey E. Ludvik","doi":"10.1086/723461","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723461","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses how identification of stylistic, morphometric, mineralogical, and technological characteristics of carnelian stone beads can provide major insights into EB IV/MB I interregional networks and social differentiation. Based on unique drilling techniques, stylistic shapes, morphometric proportions, and mineralogical characteristics, fifty-four carnelian beads found in Israel/Palestine have been identified as crafted in a manner ultimately diagnostic of the Indus tradition of modern Pakistan and western India. Fifty Indus-style beads in the EB IV/MB I probably reflect increased socio-cultural links to the northern Levant and Mesopotamia during this period, while four beads from later contexts represent long-term curation of valuable ornaments.","PeriodicalId":51934,"journal":{"name":"NEAR EASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45539509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The West Semitic Alphabet in the Early Iron Age","authors":"B. Sass, I. Finkelstein","doi":"10.1086/723458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723458","url":null,"abstract":"In the hypothesis presented by the authors, stratified, nonmonumental inscriptions and their radiometric datings take center stage for the first time. It is in the living script of these texts rather than in the artificial alphabet of monuments that the evolution of the alphabet in Iron IIA can be studied properly. A key take-home lesson of the work is the significant ninth-century transformations of the alphabet from precursive Proto-Canaanite to supraregional cursive, thence to the well-known regional variants. Under the Omrides, the alphabet in Israel is attested minimally. No Omride texts were recognized at Samaria, nor Baashide texts at Tirzah. The newly founded West Semitic kingdoms since ca. 900 BCE will have constituted the cradle of the cursive, while papyrus or parchment and ink were the cursive’s likeliest vehicle. Alphabetic inscriptions on monuments, including Byblos, all cursive-inspired, will only have emerged in the last third of the ninth century.","PeriodicalId":51934,"journal":{"name":"NEAR EASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48128814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Front Matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1086/724669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/724669","url":null,"abstract":"Previous articleNext article FreeFront MatterPDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Near Eastern Archaeology Volume 86, Number 1March 2023 A journal of ASOR Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/724669 Views: 27Total views on this site Copyright © 2023 by the American Society of Overseas ResearchPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.","PeriodicalId":51934,"journal":{"name":"NEAR EASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136245882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Finder, Not the Find","authors":"Achia Kohn-Tavor","doi":"10.1086/723460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723460","url":null,"abstract":"Educational excavation projects focus primarily on the pedagogic values embedded in the archaeological work, while archaeology per se is their secondary goal; therefore, they differ from community archaeology, which mostly incorporates education and community into archaeological projects and objectives. This article articulates this difference and then presents educational archaeology in detail, explaining how it is implemented. To illuminate educational archaeology further, two projects headed by the author are presented, encompassing school students, and domestic and international tourism. Educational archaeology encompasses a variety of benefits that are rather efficiently delivered: social and personal development of the individual, building community and a sense of belonging, and widening one’s scope of knowledge. The call to make archaeology accessible to the broad public is greatly facilitated here, and therefore educational archaeology projects should occupy a larger space among place-based, value-oriented projects.","PeriodicalId":51934,"journal":{"name":"NEAR EASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49401404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"In the Footsteps of Albright","authors":"Igor Kreimerman, Itamar Weissbein, Pnina Torn Broers, Ofer Naveh","doi":"10.1086/723462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723462","url":null,"abstract":"Tell Beit Mirsim in the Judean Shephelah was excavated by William F. Albright and Melvin G. Kyle in the 1920s and 1930s. These excavations established the relative chronology for the entire southern Levant because of good preservation conditions, facilitated by the multiple destruction layers at the site, and thanks to Albright’s familiarity with pottery. Ninety years later, the excavations have been renewed with the aim of investigating the economy and social structure of the kingdom of Judah. The first season of renewed excavations by the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has unearthed the remains of Iron Age IIB domestic structures, one of which belongs to the four-room-house type, and an olive oil press. The excellent preservation of the remains enables the reconstruction of activity areas and suggests that Tell Beit Mirsim could be the perfect lab for exploring the economy of the kingdom of Judah.","PeriodicalId":51934,"journal":{"name":"NEAR EASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44692796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}