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Objekt: Siegelabrollung (impressed upside down four times around upper shoulder meeting at angle, ware handmade, medium coarse, wadi sand inclusions, no core, no slip, burnish, or wash), Keramik, 31,8 x 25,9 cm.
Datierung: FB III (2750-2350).
Herkunft: Numeira, Numeira only occupied in EB III, with several phases within that period. Field reg. no.: NU 77 SE 3-1, loc. 6, bkt. 9, sherd .2415, Nr. 1301.
Sammlung: Pittsburgh, Bible Lands Museum, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.
Darstellung: Horned animal running or crouching in front of lion with plant, tree, or filler in front of horned animal and bird or space filler above; border grooves. Its low flat relief is similar in technique and motif to sherds found at Jericho, related to finds from Byblos (EB II) and Hama (EB IV). The animal file motif goes back to Mesopotamia origins of the fourth millennium. See bibliography below.
Bibliographie: Lapp 1989: 7-9, fig. 7; Lapp 1991: 43-45, fig. 3:9; Bourke/Descoeudres 1995: 47, 49, pl. 4:3; MacDonald/Adams/Bienkowski 2001: 215, fig. 5:21.1,2; Eggler/Keel 2006: 194f, Numeira Nr. 1.
Bourke/Descoeudres 1995: Bourke St.J./Descoeudres J.-P., 1995, Trade, Contact, and the Mouvement of Peoples in the Eastern Mediterranean. Studies in Honour of J. Basil Hennessy, Sydney.
Eggler/Keel 2006: Eggler J./Keel O., 2006, Corpus der Siegel-Amulette aus Jordanien. Vom Neolithikum bis zur Perserzeit (OBO.SA 25), Freiburg Schweiz/Göttingen.
Lapp 1989: Lapp N.L., 1989, Cylinder Seals and Impressions of the Third Millennium B.C. from the Dead Sea Plain: BASOR 273, 1-15.
Lapp 1991: Lapp N.L., 1991, Some Cylinder Seals and Impressions from the Dead Sea Plain and the Early Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean, in: Proceedings Vol. XI (Eastern Great Lakes and Midwest Biblical Societies), Michigan, 37-49.
MacDonald/Adams/Bienkowski 2001: MacDonald B./Adams R./Bienkowski P., 2001, eds., The Archaeology of Jordan (Levantine Archaeology 1), Sheffield.
DatensatzID: 12566
Permanenter Link:
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