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).

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1 Introduction

 Erin D. Darby and Izaak J. de Hulster



2 Iron Age Terracotta Figurines from the Levant: A Comparative and Iconographic Perspective

 Izaak J. de Hulster



3 A Technical Perspective on Some Iron Age Pillar Figures from Cyprus and the Levant

 Annie Caubet



4 Anthropomorphic Figurines from Iron Age II Phoenicia

 Astrid Nunn



5 Iron Age Figurines from Philistia

 David Ben-Shlomo



6 Iron Age Figurines from Philistia and Phoenicia: A Response

 Margaret Cohen



7 Judahite Pillar Figurines: More Questions than Answers

 Robert Deutsch



8 Sex in the City? Judean Pillar Figurines and the Archaeology of Jerusalem

 Erin D. Darby



9 Response to Darby and Deutsch

 Beth Alpert Nakhai



10 Molds and Mold-Links: A Close View on the Female Terracotta Figurines from Iron Age II Transjordan

 Regine Hunziker-Rodewald



11 Astarte on Her Horse at Khirbat al-Mudayna in Northern Moab

 P.M. Michèle Daviau and Emily Zeran



12 Response to Hunziker-Rodewald and Daviau and Zeran

 Margreet L. Steiner



13 The Iron Age Terracotta Figurines from Cyprus

 Erin Walcek Averett



14 Iron Age Figurines from Syria

 Alexander Pruss



15 Coroplastic Figural Art in Egypt during the Late Period (664–332 BC)

 Veit Vaelske



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