The practical logic of style and memory in early first millennium Levantine ivories

Feldman, Marian H.

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“…Most likely, such production enabled the retention of Late Bronze Age traditions in later Iron Age contexts (e.g. Feldman 2012Feldman , 2014Caubet 2013).…”

Section: An Early Iron Age Ivory Bowl 429mentioning

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An ivory bowl from Early Iron Age Tell es-Safi/Gath (Israel): manufacture, meaning and memory

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In 2013, an ivory bowl was discovered in a chalky matrix in the Early Iron Age (Philistine) levels in Area A at Tell es-Safi/Gath. Conservation revealed it to be a shallow vessel with a single lug handle, decorated in the interior and on the base with an incised twelve-petal lotus-rosette surrounded by five concentric circles. Applying an object biography approach, we investigate the history and far-flung socio-cultural connections of the Tell es-Safi/Gath bowl, which is unique within Philistia. Specific reference is made to parallels in the ivory hoard from the Late Bronze/Iron Age transition (c. late twelfth century/early eleventh century BCE) palace at Megiddo, Stratum VIIA. It is proposed that the Tell es-Safi/Gath bowl was one of a set manufactured somewhere in Canaan. The vessel became separated from the set, ending up as a foundation offering at this Philistine site.

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“…Most likely, such production enabled the retention of Late Bronze Age traditions in later Iron Age contexts (e.g. Feldman 2012Feldman , 2014Caubet 2013).…”

Section: An Early Iron Age Ivory Bowl 429mentioning

confidence: 98%

An ivory bowl from Early Iron Age Tell es-Safi/Gath (Israel): manufacture, meaning and memory

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“…The grouping of ivories and other objects with these markings is not stylistically homogenous, and certainly not sufficiently distinct for a local style. Most scholars today agree that Flame-and-Frond ivories were not made in one "workshop," but all over the northern Levant (Affanni 2009;Feldman 2012;2014: 52-57;Wicke 2013: 363-364;Mazzoni 2014: 691).…”

Section: Problems In the Stylistic Classification Of Levantine Iron Amentioning

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“…Marian Feldman (2012; found a powerful theoretical framework that can explain the impracticality of classifying Iron Age Levantine ivories and make sense of their typological and stylistic diversity with paradoxically crosscutting features that blur boundaries on all levels. Shifting attention away from connoisseurial attributional endeavors, which can only lead to improvable hypotheses, Feldman approaches stylistic specificities of Iron Age Levantine ivories from a social perspective through the lens of Pierre Bourdieu's theory of practice.…”

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Classifying Iron Age Levantine Ivories: Impracticalities and a New Approach

Suter¹

2015

Altorientalische Forschungen

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For more than a century scholarship has focused on the stylistic classification of Iron Age Levantine ivory carvings with the aim of specifying centers of production and their time of activity. With nearly all ivories from Nimrud published, the difficulties in attaining a generally accepted classification have increased rather than diminished. One could say that we have reached a deadlock. This contribution outlines the problems that the author encountered in her research on the Samaria ivories, the largest assemblage from a Levantine capital. It promotes Marian Feldman's new sociological approach, which provides a convincing theoretical framework for explaining why the present classification endeavors are impractical.

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The practical logic of style and memory in early first millennium Levantine ivories

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An ivory bowl from Early Iron Age Tell es-Safi/Gath (Israel): manufacture, meaning and memory

An ivory bowl from Early Iron Age Tell es-Safi/Gath (Israel): manufacture, meaning and memory

Classifying Iron Age Levantine Ivories: Impracticalities and a New Approach

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