By Seymour Gitin
William G. Dever is well-known because the doyen of North American archaeologist-historians who paintings within the box of the traditional Levant. he's top often called the director of excavations on the website of Gezer yet has labored at various different websites, and his many scholars have led dozens of alternative expeditions. He has been editor of the Bulletin of the yankee faculties of Oriental study, used to be for a few years professor within the influential archaeology software on the college of Arizona, and now in retirement maintains actively to write down and submit. during this quantity, forty six of his colleagues and scholars give a contribution essays in his honor, reflecting the huge scope of his pursuits, rather by way of the ancient implications of archaeology.
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One of the most striking caches of buried statues is the group recovered from the temple of Abu at Tell Asmar (Frankfort 1939: 2–3, 13–16, pl. 1; Delougaz and Lloyd 1942: 188–92, figs. 149–51). , Spycket 1968: 11–13; Hallo 1993: 19–22)—is not pertinent to the present study. The important point is that the statues were buried next to the altar, and “the heavier statues, including the two cult figures, lay at the bottom; the remainder were packed one upon another, apparently with considerable care” (Delougaz and Lloyd 1942: 190).
The mutilation was clearly intentional. 15. Statue of a seated figure* (reg. no. F/68/14). According to Yadin et al. (1960: 157, pl. ” No reason is given for this statement. The head of the figure is missing, and although the circumstances under which this occurred cannot be established with certainty, at least partial intentional mutilation seems to be indicated by the fact that the outline of the base of a cup that the figure originally held in its right hand can still be seen. 8 Fig. 4. Head of ivory statuette from Hazor (reg.
Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society. Bonfil, R. 1997 Area A. Pp. 15–176 in Hazor V: An Account of the Fifth Season of Excavation, 1968, ed. A. Ben-Tor and R. Bonfil. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society. Borger, R. 1956 Die Inschriften Asarhaddons Königs von Assyrien. Archiv für Orientforschung 9. Graz: Weidner. 1971 Gott Marduk und Gott-König Sulgi als Propheten: Zwei Prophetische Texte. Bibliotheca Orientalis 28: 3–24. The Sad Fate of Statues and the Mutilated Statues of Hazor Brandes, M. 1980 Destruction et mutilation de statues en Mésopotamie.