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Sepphoris II
Sepphoris was an important Galilean site from Hellenistic to early Islamic times. This multicultural city is described by Flavius Josephus as the \"ornament of all Galilee,\" and Rabbi Judah the Prince (ha-Nasi) codified the Mishnah there around 200 CE. The Duke University excavations of the 1980s and 1990s uncovered a large corpus of clay oil lamps in the domestic area of the western summit, and this volume presents these vessels. Richly illustrated with photos and drawings, it describes the various shape-types and includes a detailed catalog of 219 lamps.
The volume also explores the origins of the Sepphoris lamps and establishes patterns of their trade, transport, and sale in the lower city's marketplace. A unique contribution is the use of a combined petrographic and direct current plasma-optical emission spectrometric (dcp-oes) analysis of selected lamp fabrics from sites in Israel and Jordan. This process provided valuable information, indicating that lamps found in Sepphoris came from Judea, the Decapolis, and even Greece, suggesting an urban community fully engaged with other regional centers. Lamp decorations also provide information about the cosmopolitan culture of Sepphoris in antiquity. Discus lamps with erotic scenes and mythological characters suggest Greco-Roman influences, and menorahs portrayed on lamps indicate a vibrant Jewish identity.
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Sepphoris I
Sepphoris, \"the ornament of all Galilee\" according to Josephus, was an important Galilean site during the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods and into early Islamic times. It served as Herod Antipas's capital of Galilee in the late first century B.C.E. and the early first century C.E., and the Sanhedrin (the supreme Jewish judicial authority) was located there for a time in the third century C.E. Extensive excavations on the western acropolis—probably the location of many of the Jewish occupants of this multicultural city—by the Duke University-Hebrew University project in the mid- to late 1980s and the Duke excavations of the 1990s produced a remarkable assemblage of ceramic wares.
This book provides an overview of the history and chronology of the site. It then presents a detailed examination of the pottery. Featuring 55 plates with line-drawings as well as some photos of the various ceramic types, this important publication will be essential for all studies of the archaeology of early Judaism and Christianity in the Holy Land.
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Ceramic Manufacturing Techniques and Cultural Traditions in Nubia from the 8th to the 3rd Millennium BC
This book presents a comprehensive critical analysis of diverse ceramic assemblages from Sai Island, in the Middle Nile Valley of Northern Sudan, on the border between ancient Upper and Lower Nubia. The assemblages included in this study cover about five millennia, spanning the period c. 8000 to c. 2500 BC.
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Political Change and Material Culture in Middle to Late Bronze Age Canaan
Do shifts in material culture instigate administrative change,
or is it the shifting political winds that affect material culture?
This is the central question that Shlomit Bechar addresses in this
book, taking the transition from the Middle to Late Bronze Age
(seventeenth-fourteenth centuries BCE) in northern Canaan as a test
case.
Combining archaeological and historical analysis, Bechar
identifies the most significant changes evident in architectural
and ceramic remains from this period and then explores how and why
contemporary political shifts may have influenced, or been
influenced by, these developments. Bechar persuasively argues that
the Egyptian conquest of the southern Levant-enabled by local
economic decline following the expulsion of the Hyksos and the fall
of northern Syrian cities-was the impetus for these changes in
ceramics and architecture. Using a macro-typological approach to
examine the ceramic assemblages, she also discusses the impact of
the influx of Aegean imports, suggesting that while \"attached
specialists\" were primarily responsible for ceramic production in
the Middle Bronze Age, Late Bronze Age ceramics were increasingly
made by \"independent specialists,\" another important result of the
new administrative system created following Thutmose III's
campaign.
An important contribution to our understanding of the transition
between the Middle and Late Bronze Ages, this original and
insightful book will appeal to specialists in the Bronze Age
Levant, especially those interested in using ceramic assemblages to
examine social and political change.
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