Iron Age Terracotta Figurines
from the Southern Levant
in Context
Edited by
Erin D. Darby
Izaak J. de Hulster
LEIDEN | BOSTON
For use by the Author only | © 2022 Koninklijke Brill NV
,Contents
List of Figures and Tables vii
1 Introduction 1
Erin D. Darby and Izaak J. de Hulster
2 Iron Age Terracotta Figurines from the Levant: A Comparative and
Iconographic Perspective 10
Izaak J. de Hulster
3 A Technical Perspective on Some Iron Age Pillar Figures from Cyprus
and the Levant 50
Annie Caubet
4 Anthropomorphic Figurines from Iron Age II Phoenicia 66
Astrid Nunn
5 Iron Age Figurines from Philistia 119
David Ben-Shlomo
6 Iron Age Figurines from Philistia and Phoenicia: A Response 148
Margaret Cohen
7 Judahite Pillar Figurines: More Questions than Answers 163
Robert Deutsch
8 Sex in the City? Judean Pillar Figurines and the Archaeology of
Jerusalem 178
Erin D. Darby
9 Response to Darby and Deutsch 215
Beth Alpert Nakhai
10 Molds and Mold-Links: A Close View on the Female Terracotta Figurines
from Iron Age II Transjordan 220
Regine Hunziker-Rodewald
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, vi Contents
11 Astarte on Her Horse at Khirbat al-Mudayna in Northern Moab 256 chapter 7
P.M. Michèle Daviau and Emily Zeran
12 Response to Hunziker-Rodewald and Daviau and Zeran 285
Margreet L. Steiner
13 The Iron Age Terracotta Figurines from Cyprus 292
Erin Walcek Averett
14 Iron Age Figurines from Syria 333
Alexander Pruss
The ceramic Judahite P
15 Coroplastic Figural Art in Egypt during the Late Period community for over a ce
(664–332 BC) 375 ca. 800 bce until the Ba
Veit Vaelske they are known as jpf s,
tary, have been found to
General Index 425 an Iron Age strata.3 All j
Index of Geographical Names 429 because from the neck d
the base. Some of them
(Yezerski and Geva 200
arms placed under the b
1 The article is based on a
Literature in Baltimore in
JPFs, More Questions th
Vol. 40, no. 5, September/O
2 The term jpf which origin
in which the jpf s were fou
conquest of the ��rst centu
Vespasian and Titus (69–
convention to form the a
Judahite; so we will refer
previously.
3 In addition, hundreds of jp
vate collections (Rahmani
Kletter 1996, 232–36; Guri-
4 Several alleged jpf s coul
from Lachish and one fro
Plates xli–xlii), are miss
have no male attributes su
broken hands and the arti
39–44, her type B) and the
5 Term coined by Kathleen
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from the Southern Levant
in Context
Edited by
Erin D. Darby
Izaak J. de Hulster
LEIDEN | BOSTON
For use by the Author only | © 2022 Koninklijke Brill NV
,Contents
List of Figures and Tables vii
1 Introduction 1
Erin D. Darby and Izaak J. de Hulster
2 Iron Age Terracotta Figurines from the Levant: A Comparative and
Iconographic Perspective 10
Izaak J. de Hulster
3 A Technical Perspective on Some Iron Age Pillar Figures from Cyprus
and the Levant 50
Annie Caubet
4 Anthropomorphic Figurines from Iron Age II Phoenicia 66
Astrid Nunn
5 Iron Age Figurines from Philistia 119
David Ben-Shlomo
6 Iron Age Figurines from Philistia and Phoenicia: A Response 148
Margaret Cohen
7 Judahite Pillar Figurines: More Questions than Answers 163
Robert Deutsch
8 Sex in the City? Judean Pillar Figurines and the Archaeology of
Jerusalem 178
Erin D. Darby
9 Response to Darby and Deutsch 215
Beth Alpert Nakhai
10 Molds and Mold-Links: A Close View on the Female Terracotta Figurines
from Iron Age II Transjordan 220
Regine Hunziker-Rodewald
For use by the Author only | © 2022 Koninklijke Brill NV
, vi Contents
11 Astarte on Her Horse at Khirbat al-Mudayna in Northern Moab 256 chapter 7
P.M. Michèle Daviau and Emily Zeran
12 Response to Hunziker-Rodewald and Daviau and Zeran 285
Margreet L. Steiner
13 The Iron Age Terracotta Figurines from Cyprus 292
Erin Walcek Averett
14 Iron Age Figurines from Syria 333
Alexander Pruss
The ceramic Judahite P
15 Coroplastic Figural Art in Egypt during the Late Period community for over a ce
(664–332 BC) 375 ca. 800 bce until the Ba
Veit Vaelske they are known as jpf s,
tary, have been found to
General Index 425 an Iron Age strata.3 All j
Index of Geographical Names 429 because from the neck d
the base. Some of them
(Yezerski and Geva 200
arms placed under the b
1 The article is based on a
Literature in Baltimore in
JPFs, More Questions th
Vol. 40, no. 5, September/O
2 The term jpf which origin
in which the jpf s were fou
conquest of the ��rst centu
Vespasian and Titus (69–
convention to form the a
Judahite; so we will refer
previously.
3 In addition, hundreds of jp
vate collections (Rahmani
Kletter 1996, 232–36; Guri-
4 Several alleged jpf s coul
from Lachish and one fro
Plates xli–xlii), are miss
have no male attributes su
broken hands and the arti
39–44, her type B) and the
5 Term coined by Kathleen
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For use by the Author only | © 2022 Koninklijke Brill NV
