Masters of fire : Copper Age art from Israel / edited by Michael Sebbane, Osnat Misch-Brandl, and Daniel M. Master ; including contributions by Thomas E. Levy [and six others].
Publisher:
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University ;
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
183 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 30 cm
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Masters of fire: Copper Age art from Israel, held at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, February 13-June 8, 2014, and at the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, June 28, 2014-January 4, 2015. Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-182).
Contents:
The discovery of the Chalcolithic Period / Daniel M. Master, Wheaton College -- Cultural transformations : the Chalcolithic Southern levant / Thomas E. Levy, University of California, San Diego -- Imagery in the Chalcolithic Period / Dina Shalem, Institute for Galilean Archaeology, Kinneret College -- Spiritual life in the Southern Levant during the late Chalcolithic Period, 4500-3600 BCE / Osnat Misch-Brandl, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem -- The mortuary process in the Chalcolithic Period / Yorke M. Rowan, University of Chicago -- The hoard from Naı̀Æal Mishmar, and the metalworking industry in Israel in the Chalcolithic Period / Michael Sebbane, Israel Antiquities Authority -- Textiles, basketry, and other organic artifacts of the Chalcolithic Period in the Southern Levant / Orit Shamir, Israel Antiquities Authority.
Summary:
Focuses on the people of the southern Levant who harnessed the power of metallurgy during the fourth millennium BCE. Artisans produced extraordinary copper objects while other craftsmen molded pottery and stone into complex anthropomorphic burial containers, statuettes, and ritual objects. Taken together, these artifacts reveal the first stratified culture known in the ancient Near East. Highlights of the exhibition include a selection of material from the Na'al Mishmar hoard, an unprecedented collection of copper prestige and ritual objects, organic materials from the Cave of the Warrior, and an exceptional group of ritual figurines.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.