Tel Burna in the Late Bronze – assessing the 13th century BCE landscape of the Shephelah

McKinny, Chris; Tavger, Aharon; Shai, Itzhaq

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“…The site was inhabited from the Early Bronze Age through the Persian period (Uziel & Shai 2010). The LB settlement, initially founded in the fourteenth century BCE, reached its peak in the thirteenth century BCE, as attested to by the fact that the majority of the LB finds date to that time (see McKinny et al 2019). LB occupation at the site has primarily been uncovered in Area B1, located just to the west and below the summit of the tell (Fig.…”

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Object Biographies, Object Agency and a Local Community's Encounter with and Response to Foreign Commodities: The Pithoi from LB Tel Burna as a Case Study

Susnow,

McKinny,

Shai

2024

CAJ

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This study investigates the effects that an encounter with a foreign object can have on local traditions. Notions of object agency and object biographies will be utilized to address what happens when people become entangled with new things: the new context can have an impact on the newly introduced object, and those newly introduced objects can similarly impact locals and their traditions. The Late Bronze Age southern Levantine site of Tel Burna will serve as a case study, where a number of imported Cypriot pithoi were found alongside locally produced pithoi. It will be demonstrated that in their new context, the Cypriot pithoi were given new meaning and function. At the same time, the imported pithoi played active roles in the local potters of Tel Burna making pithoi. However, the local pithoi resemble local storage jars, so while the potters mimicked the concept of the Cypriot pithoi, they did so according to local normative forms.

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Object Biographies, Object Agency and a Local Community's Encounter with and Response to Foreign Commodities: The Pithoi from LB Tel Burna as a Case Study

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Shai

2024

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“…A very high concentration of Cypriot imports of various types, including zoomorphic vessels of the Base Ring type. These were found next to two in situ massive Cypriot wavyband pithoi that served as storage containers for the smaller vessels (locally produced and imported bowls, juglets [including Base Ring bilbil juglets], and a Cypriot tankard) that were likely used in the cultic activity that took place in the courtyard (Shai et al 2019).…”

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“…A unique standing stone made from chalk with a symmetrical hole driven through its center. This standing stone seems to have served as the focal point of cultic activity within the courtyard and cultic enclosure and its unique "anchor" shape may hint at the deity that was worshipped (McKinny, Tavger, and Shai 2019;Shai and McKinny 2020).…”

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Tree of Life Motif, Late Bronze Canaanite Cult, and a Recently Discovered Krater from Tel Burna

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McKinny²,

Shai³

2022

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This paper discusses a krater recently discovered in a cultic building at Tel Burna in the Shephelah. Of special interest is the krater’s relatively well-preserved decoration containing multiple nature scenes related to the so-called tree of life or sacred tree motif. The krater’s physical description and archaeological context and the decoration’s relationship to relevant comparanda are explored in order to elucidate the significance of its iconography. In light of this discussion, we conclude that the decoration includes an abstract representation of a Canaanite goddess as a “pubis of life” variation of the “tree of life” motif on the krater as a votive vessel in the Late Bronze Age cult.

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Tel Burna in the Late Bronze – assessing the 13th century BCE landscape of the Shephelah

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Object Biographies, Object Agency and a Local Community's Encounter with and Response to Foreign Commodities: The Pithoi from LB Tel Burna as a Case Study

Object Biographies, Object Agency and a Local Community's Encounter with and Response to Foreign Commodities: The Pithoi from LB Tel Burna as a Case Study

Tree of Life Motif, Late Bronze Canaanite Cult, and a Recently Discovered Krater from Tel Burna

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