The Root of the Problem

Mazow, Laura B.

doi:10.1558/jmea.v27i1.33

JMA

2014

DOI: 10.1558/jmea.v27i1.33

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The Root of the Problem

Laura B. Mazow

Abstract: Reconstructions of ancient wool-processing techniques have generally been based on the assumption that lanolin was a by-product of the woolen textile industry. However, both ancient and modern sources point to significant procedural differences between the extraction and recovery of lanolin and the preparation of wool for spinning and weaving. The different conditions necessary to produce spinning wool or to recover lanolin are, in fact, contradictory rather than complementary, and wool working and lanolin pro… Show more

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“… 137 On the possible workshop-related use of bathtub basins, see Fappas 2009–10, 152, 258, 260–1; also, Alberti et al 2012; 2015. For the connection of similar-looking bathtubs in the east Mediterranean and wool-processing, see Mazow 2014 (e.g. Tel Abu Hawam and Tel Miqne-Ekron).…”

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Atop the Kadmeia: Mycenaean Roof Tiles From Thebes in Context

Aravantinos¹,

Fappas²,

Galanakis

2020

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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Questions were raised in the past regarding the use of Mycenaean tiles as ‘roof tiles’ on the basis of the small numbers of them recovered in excavations and their overall scarcity in Mycenaean domestic contexts. The investigation of the Theodorou plot in 2008 in the southern part of the Kadmeia hill at Thebes yielded the single and, so far, largest known assemblage per square metre of Mycenaean tiles from a well-documented excavation. This material allows, for the first time convincingly, to identify the existence of a Mycenaean tiled roof. This paper presents the results of our work on the Theodorou tiles, placing emphasis on their construction, form and modes of production, offering the most systematic study of Mycenaean tiles to date. It also revisits contexts of discovery of similar material from excavations across Thebes. Popular as tiles might have been in Boeotia, and despite their spatially widespread attestation, their use in Aegean Late Bronze Age architecture appears, on the whole, irregular with central Greece and the north-east Peloponnese being the regions with the most sites known to have yielded such objects. Mycenaean roof tiles date mostly from the mid- and late fourteenth century bc to the twelfth century bc. A study of their construction, form, production and contexts suggests that their role, apart from adding extra insulation, might have been one of signposting certain buildings in the landscape. We also present the idea that Mycenaean tile-making was guided by a particular conventional knowledge which was largely influenced by ceramic-related technologies (pottery- and drain-making). While production of roof tiles might have been palace-instigated to begin with, it does not appear to have been strictly controlled. This approach to Mycenaean tile-making may also help explain their uneven (in terms of intensity of use) yet widespread distribution.

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Atop the Kadmeia: Mycenaean Roof Tiles From Thebes in Context

Aravantinos¹,

Fappas²,

Galanakis

2020

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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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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Atop the Kadmeia: Mycenaean Roof Tiles From Thebes in Context

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