A Wayside Shrine in Northern Moab: Excavations in Wadi ath-Thamad

P. M. Michèle Daviau, Margreet L. Steiner (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2017
Oxbow Books (Verlag)
978-1-78570-708-7 (ISBN)

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Presents the results of recent excavations at a small, isolated but very important Iron Age shrine in Moab, southern Palestine. A rich assemblage of cultic objects, including figurines and statues, shed much light on religious practices in the region.

Major recent excavations have shed much light on the complexity of Iron Age society and religion in southern Palestine, a region where both Judeans and Edomites lived. However, it is not clear whether the religious practices attested at these sites were a reflection of localised customs or were common rituals for peoples of Cisjordan and we do not know their extent. An isolated shrine site at Wadi ath-Thamad Site WT-13 in northern Moab which contained numerous finds of Iron Age figurines and statues has been the subject of detailed excavation. The rich harvest of figurines, ceramic statues, beads, miniature ceramic vessels, architectural models, faunal remains and shells and fossils constitutes the evidence for repeated cultic activities. Although dating to the Iron Age at the time of the consolidation of the kingdom of Moab, there is insufficient evidence at present to determine the full range of cultic practices and deities venerated by the peoples of the lands within ancient Moab and by those visitors to the shrine. The links between WT-13 and the surrounding town sites is only now coming to light with excavation at Atarus and Khirbat al-Mudayna, as well as at the Ammonite site of Tall Damiyah in the Jordan Valley, where a comparable shrine has recently been uncovered. WT-13 clearly serves as a link between the Jordan Valley and the Negev, adding to our knowledge of local and foreign influences in the region during the Iron Age.

P. M. Michèle Daviau (University of Toronto, 1990) is professor emerita of Near Eastern Archaeology at Wilfrid Laurier University. She has excavated in North America, Israel and Jordan, where she directed excavations at Tall Jawa, south of Amman and is currently director of the Wadi ath-Thamad Project in northern Moab. She edited The World of the Aramaeans and has published four volumes, Excavations at Tall Jawa, and is now preparing a study of the Iron Age pottery. She has a special interest in religious iconography and the domestic cult and in the archaeology of Jordan. Margreet L. Steiner (University of Leiden, 1994) is an independent scholar in Leiden, The Netherlands. She has produced final publications of Kathleen Kenyon’s excavations in Jerusalem and is the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant (10.000 – 350 BCE). For the past thirty-five years she has participated in or directed excavations in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and the Palestinian Territories. Currently she is co-director of the renewed excavations of Tell Abu Sarbut, Jordan. Margreet Steiner has published widely on the archaeology of the Levant.

Preface

List of Team Members

List of Tables and Graphs

List of Illustrations

PART ONE. THE SITE AND ITS EXCAVATION

Chapter One. Introduction and Geographical Setting

P. M. Michèle Daviau

with an excursus by Carlos Cordova

Chapter Two. Approaches to Religious Rituals and Cultic Behaviour

P. M. Michèle Daviau

Chapter Three. Stratigraphy, Architecture and Finds at WT-13

P. M. Michèle Daviau

PART TWO. THE FINDS FROM THE STRATUM II SHRINE

Chapter Four. The Anthropomorphic Figurines and Statues: Images of Gods and Worshipers

P. M. Michèle Daviau

Chapter Five. Typology of the Small Finds

P. M. Michèle Daviau

Chapter Six. WT-13 Pottery and the Central Jordan Tradition

Margreet L. Steiner

Chapter Seven. Tripod Cups, Miniature and Specialized Vessels

   P. M. Michele Daviau

Chapter Eight. The Provenance of Anthropomorphic Statues, Figurines and Pottery

   Jan Gunneweg and Marta Balla

Chapter Nine. The WT-13 Faunal Bone Collection

   David Lipovitch

Chapter Ten. Shells and Fossil Invertebrates from WT-13

David S. Reese

Chapter Eleven. Fossil Sea Urchins from WT-13

   Kenneth J. McNamara

Chapter Twelve. The Beads

   P. M. Michèle and Gabrielle Cole

Chapter Thirteen. Nabataean and Roman Pottery and Objects

   P. M. Michèle Daviau

   with an Excursus by Robert M. Kerr

PART III. LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY

Chapter Fourteen. Regional Survey and Landscape Archaeology at WT-13 and WT-18 (al- Rumayl)

Christopher M. Foley

with contributions by P. M. Michèle Daviau

Chapter Fifteen. Sacred Landscape in Central Jordan

   P. M. Michèle Daviau

Index

Bibliography

www resources: https://downloads.wlu.ca/WadiThamad

Databases and Images

Field Images

Pottery

Artefacts

Beads

Erscheinungsdatum	05.10.2017
Zusatzinfo	b/w
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	220 x 280 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-78570-708-6 / 1785707086
ISBN-13	978-1-78570-708-7 / 9781785707087
Zustand	Neuware