Samaria-Sebaste II: The Early Ivories
J.W.Crowfoot and Grace M. Crowfoot
with a Note by E.L. Sukenik
| The Samaria Ivories were the first major find of art
from the period of the Hebrew monarchy, and shed unprecedented light
on the imagery in use in elite circles in the Kingdom of Israel.
Although originally dated to the ninth century B.C. on the basis of
an assumed connection to the 'Ivory House' of King Ahab (I Kings
22:39), they are now thought to date a century later, to the eighth
century, although the excavators' original conclusion that they were
connected to Phoenician artwork has been confirmed by later
discoveries. |
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| The ivories were found in the course of excavations
conducted jointly by Harvard University, the Hebrew University in
Jerusalem, the Palestine Exploration Fund and the British School of
Archaeology in Jerusalem. The final report on these excavations was
published in a series of volumes by the Palestine Exploration Fund.
The present volume, which is No. 2 in the series, was issued first
because of the great interest aroused by the ivories: it contains a
coloured frontispiece, 25 collotype plates and 16 figures in the
text, some two hundred fragments being represented. |
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285 x 216 mm. xv + 62 pages, 1 plan, 16 figures in the text, 25 black and white plates ISBN: 0-9502279-0-0 |
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| Price of Monograph: Subscribers: £5.00 (U.S.$10.00) + postage and packing Non-Subscribers: £10.00 (U.S.$20.00) + postage and packing |
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