'To Aleppo gone …' : Essays in honour of Jonathan N. Tubb /: Essays in honour of Jonathan N. Tubb. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Irving Finkel, J.A. Fraser, St John Simpson.
• Editors: Finkel, Irving; Fraser, J.A; Simpson, St John
• Contents: Preface ; J.N. Tubb: a bibliography of works ; PART ONE: Along the Jordan Valley ; Notes on the figurines from Tell es-Sa'idiyeh – Josef Mario BRIFFA SJ ; Early Bronze Age capers at Tell es-Sa'idiyeh in Jordan – Caroline R. CARTWRIGHT ; On the naming of Tell es-Sa'idiyeh – Rupert L. CHAPMAN III ; The Shaft Grave with loculus at Tell es-Sa'idiyeh – Jack GREEN ; Tell Um Hammad in the Early Bronze IV period – Svend HELMS†, Melissa KENNEDY and Alison BETTS ; A stamp seal impression from Kataret es-Samra – Albert LEONARD, Jr. ; A view from a tell redux – Suzanne RICHARD ; Tell es-Sa'idiyeh and the Egyptian trade – Eveline J. VAN DER STEEN ; PART TWO: Beyond the Jordan ; A playing scene on an ivory panel from Megiddo – Anne DUNN-VATURI ; Rural cult in urban Canaan: an MB/LB 'temple' at el-Khawarij in the Jordan Valley escarpment – James A. FRASER, Jaimie L. LOVELL, Paul DONNELLY ; An elephant in the Sīq? – Sam MOORHEAD ; 'Canaanites' at Bethlehem – Lorenzo NIGRO ; A possible sundial from Zoara in the Ghor as-Safi – Konstantinos D. POLITIS ; An Ammonite god in the British Museum – Katharina SCHMIDT ; An Egyptian figurine mould from Tell Halif – Joe D. SEGER ; A human-headed chariot linchpin from Tell Fara – Rachael Thyrza SPARKS ; An enigmatic scarab from Rishon le-Zion – James M. WEINSTEIN ; PART THREE: From Syria to southern Iraq ; The tip of the spear: fortification at Tell Nebi Mend – Stephen BOURKE ; Facing the sunrise: the orientation of certain Levantine Bronze Age temples – Christopher J. DAVEY ; Out of the stores: further obsidian objects from Tell Chagar Bazar – Elizabeth HEALEY ; Peering behind the pictographs – Irving FINKEL ; Found in Assyria, made in Phoenicia, copied in Syria, exported to Iberia: a well-travelled motif of the early 1st millennium BC – Eric GUBEL ; Making a mark: evidence for cattle branding on the Nimrud ivories – Hannah GWYTHER ; The Loftus ladies – Georgina HERRMANN ; 'Keeper of the inhabited world' – John MacGINNIS ; Idols for the household: two bronze figurines from Late Bronze I Taşlı Geçit Höyük – Nicolò MARCHETTI ; Sun, hero and hair – Astrid NUNN ; The bitumen trade of Hīt from antiquity to Ottoman times – Andrew D. PETERSEN ; Sumerian harmonics – Sébastien REY ; Griffins in paradise: Canaanite to Phoenician in a Nimrud ivory – Michael SEYMOUR ; Smoking and drinking: from Tell es-Sa'idiyeh to Ur – St John SIMPSON ; PART FOUR: Cultural heritage ; Protecting cultural heritage in museums during crises and wars 165 – Maamoun ABDULKARIM ; The Cyrus Cylinder: anatomy of the Tehran 2010 loan – Dean BAYLIS ; 'Standing Caliph' coins from Syria: probably looted and on the market – Neil BRODIE ; The Palestine Archaeological Museum in Jerusalem, 1926–1938 – Mahmoud HAWARI ; PART FIVE: Personal stories ; John Garstang in retrospect – Piotr BIENKOWSKI ; The Palestine Exploration Fund, Charles Clermont-Ganneau and the Mesha stela – Felicity COBBING ; Reasoning in archaeological discourse – Anthony J. FRENDO ; The Megiddo water system: a letter from R.S. Lamon to J.L. Starkey – Yosef GARFINKEL ; Memories of Tell es-Sa'idiyeh – Loretta HOGAN and Sandra SMITH ; A Confluence of Stories: a personal journey – Imran JAVED ; An unexpected find: a letter from Flinders Petrie to Leonard Woolley – Carlo LIPPOLIS ; 'I am the Bull of Nineveh': a monument on the move – Henrietta McCALL† ; Family Bibles: an early 18th-century case and beyond – Gerrit van der KOOIJ ; AFTERWORD ; From Palestine Room to Levant Gallery at the British Museum – Jonathan N. TUBB ; Indices.
• Publisher Details: Oxford : Archaeopress Archaeology
• Publication Date: 2023
• Copyright Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (246 pages)
• Subjects: Middle & Near Eastern archaeology; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781803274713
• Related ISBNs: 9781803274706
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