Iron Age Terracotta Figurines from the Southern Levant in Context

Erin D. Darby is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee and Co-director of the ʿAyn Gharandal Archaeological Project. Among her publications is the monograph Interpreting Judean Pillar Figurines: Gender and Empire in Judean Apotropaic Ritual (Tübingen, 2014).Izaak J. de Hulster is Privatdozent at the Theological Faculty of the Georg-August-University Göttingen (Germany) and docent at the Theological Faculty of the University of Helsinki (Finland). He is Associate Director of the Tel Abel Beth Maacah Excavations and has published several monographs and edited volumes, including Figurines in Achaemenid Period Yehud: Jerusalem’s History of Religion and Coroplastics in the Monotheism Debate (Tübingen, 2017).

"En résumé, cet ouvrage fait le point sur de nombreux dossiers en cours. L’approche est originale puisqu’elle permet d’appréhender ce matériel de manière globale. En effet, les différentes enquêtes ne se résument pas à une présentation typologique de ces terres cuites, mais insistent toutes sur la matérialité et la destination de ces images, ainsi que sur leurs contextes d’utilisation. Chaque contribution accorde une large place à la méthodologie suivie, ce qui guide commodément le lecteur et lui donne matière à réflexion. Au total, il s’agit d’un ouvrage nécessaire sur la coroplathie levantine."- Estelle Galbois, Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2022.05.12"This important collection of essays provides a cutting-edge update of available southern Levantine figurines from the Iron Age until the Persian Period (1200–333 BCE). Focusing on the material profile of each find, a clarification of the typology and classification of each object is provided—as either female, male, animal, or furniture figurines—together with a description of their production, appearance, and provenance."- Sandra Jacobs, in The Society for Old Testament Study Book List 2022

• List of Figures and Tables1 IntroductionErin D. Darby and Izaak J. de Hulster2 Iron Age Terracotta Figurines from the Levant: A Comparative and Iconographic PerspectiveIzaak J. de Hulster3 A Technical Perspective on Some Iron Age Pillar Figures from Cyprus and the LevantAnnie Caubet4 Anthropomorphic Figurines from Iron Age II PhoeniciaAstrid Nunn5 Iron Age Figurines from PhilistiaDavid Ben-Shlomo6 Iron Age Figurines from Philistia and Phoenicia: A ResponseMargaret Cohen7 Judahite Pillar Figurines: More Questions than AnswersRobert Deutsch8 Sex in the City? Judean Pillar Figurines and the Archaeology of JerusalemErin D. Darby9 Response to Darby and DeutschBeth Alpert Nakhai10 Molds and Mold-Links: A Close View on the Female Terracotta Figurines from Iron Age II TransjordanRegine Hunziker-Rodewald11 Astarte on Her Horse at Khirbat al-Mudayna in Northern MoabP.M. Michèle Daviau and Emily Zeran12 Response to Hunziker-Rodewald and Daviau and ZeranMargreet L. Steiner13 The Iron Age Terracotta Figurines from CyprusErin Walcek Averett14 Iron Age Figurines from SyriaAlexander Pruss15 Coroplastic Figural Art in Egypt during the Late Period (664–332 BC)Veit VaelskeIndex