In Pursuit of Visibility: Essays in Archaeology, Ethnography, and Text in Honor of Beth Alpert Nakhai

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In Pursuit of Visibility honors the distinguished career of a scholar of Canaan and ancient Israel, Beth Alpert Nakhai. In fifteen diverse essays, Professor Nakhai's students and colleagues celebrate her important contributions to the field of Near Eastern Archaeology, including her research into gender, household, and cult in the Bronze and Iron Age southern Levant, and her tireless efforts to acknowledge and support women in the profession. These essays reflect Professor Nakhai's commitment to combining archaeology and text to reconstruct aspects of ancient life and make those who are marginalized visible in both the past and the present. Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Page List of Authors An Appreciation of Beth Alpert Nakhai Jennie Ebeling, Laura Mazow, Mandana Nakhai, Abbe Alpert, and J. Edward Wright Figure 1: Beth at a pottery studio in Hebron in 1976. Photo courtesy Farzad and Mandana Nakhai. Figure 2: Beth convenes the Initiative on the Status of Women Mentoring Lunch at the 2017 Annual Meeting of ASOR. Photo courtesy American Society of Overseas Research. Figure 3: Beth presents at the third Workshop on Gender, Methodology and the Ancient Near East (GeMANE 3) at Ghent University in April 2019. Photo courtesy Katrien De Graf. Figure 4: Beth teaching Biblical Hebrew at the University of Arizona. Photo courtesy the Arizona Center for Judaic Studies. Figure 5: Beth in the classroom at the University of Arizona. Photo courtesy the Arizona Center for Judaic Studies. Tfu Tfu Tfu: Against Evil Eye Assumptions Abigail S. Limmer ‘It’s the Pits …’ Iron Age I Economy at Abel Beth Maacah Lisa Marsio Figure 1: Location of Abel Beth Maacah. Map by Ruhama Bonfil. Courtesy of the Tel Abel Beth Maacah Excavations. Figure 2: Aerial photo of the tell with the village of Abil el-Qameh in 1945. Aerial Photographic Archive, Department of Geography, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Photograph by the Royal Air Force. Courtesy of the Tel Abel Beth Maacah Excavations. Figure 3: Plan of Area F showing pits. Courtesy of the Tel Abel Beth Maacah Excavations. Table 1: List of Abel Beth Maacah Pits. What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?Contextualizing an Iron Age IIA Female-Drummer Figurine from Tel Abel Beth Maacah Nava Panitz-Cohen and Daphna Tsoran What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? Figure 1: Tel Abel Beth Maacah: view of the tell looking east and location map (photograph by Robert Mullins, courtesy of the Abel Beth Maacah Excavations; map by Ruhama Bonfil, Institute of Archaeology, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem). Figure 2: View of the tell looking west, with Area B, where the figurine was found, marked (photograph courtesy of Mikraot Gedolot Haketer Project, www.mgketer.org). Figure 3: Area B, with Iron Age IIA citadel complex; star marks the findspot of the figurine (photograph by Alexander Wiegmann and Yakov Shmidov, courtesy of the Abel Beth Maacah Excavations). Figure 4a: Photograph of the figurine(photograph by Tal Rogovski). Figure 4b: Drawing of the figurine (drawing by Yulia Rudman). Figure 5a: View of back attachment of the right arm; b: View of back attachment of the left arm; c: Smear of clay between body and back of the left arm (photographs by Naama Yahalom-Mack, courtesy of the Laboratory for Archaeological Materials and Ancient Rethinking ‘Cultic’ Herd Management:A Preliminary Multi-Isotopic Perspective on the Proposed Iron Age IIA Cultic Space at Khirbet Summeily Kara Larson and James W. Hardin Rethinking ‘Cultic’ Herd Management Figure 1: Location of Iron Age IIA Khirbet Summeily in the broader Greater Hesi regionof the southern Levant. Figure 2: Top plans of the Iron Age IIA occupation layers, Phase 4 and Phase 3. Note that the potential cultic space is denoted by a red outline. Figure 3: Important finds from Phase 4 and Phase 3 originating from the proposed cultic space. Figure 4: (a) The stained soil (sectioned out in red) in square 44, interpreted by the excavators as an oil stain, and (b) recovered chalice and zoomorphic lion head from square 44 along with recovered Egyptian scarabs. Figure 5: Recovered highly polished ovicaprine astragali, interpreted as possible divination pieces used for ritual activity. Table 2: Carbon results Table 1: Selected Faunal Molars for Isotopic Analyses Table 3: Oxygen results Table 4: Strontium results Figure 6: Overall carbon (a), oxygen (b), and strontium (c) results mapped by intra-tooth sample. Administrative individuals are mapped in blue and cultic individuals are mapped in red. Figure 7: Overall carbon results separated by Capra hircus (a), Ovis aries (b), and Bos taurus (c) results mapped by intra-tooth sample. Administrative individuals are mapped in blue and cultic individuals are mapped in red. Figure 8: Overall oxygen results separated by Capra hircus (a), Ovis aries (b), and Bos taurus (c) results mapped by intra-tooth sample. Administrative individuals are mapped in blue and cultic individuals are mapped in red. Figure 9: Overall strontium results separated by Capra hircus (a), Ovis aries (b), and Bos taurus (c) results mapped by intra-tooth sample. Administrative individuals are mapped in blue and cultic individuals are mapped in red. Two-Handled Pillar Jars at Gezer Charles Wilson, Steven M. Ortiz, and Sam R. Wolff Figure 1: Plan of the recently excavated four-room house located at the northwest corner of the excavation field (plan drawn by Charles Wilson). Figure 2: Pillar-handled jars from the four-room house (photos taken and figure prepared by Charles Wilson). Figure 3: In-situ pillar-handled jar from Room B of the four-room house (photo by Samuel R. Wolff). Figure 4: A pillar-handled jar (two-handled variety) from Tell Jemmeh (after Petrie 1928, pl. LV: 44g). Greco-Roman Dining Practices, Feasts, and Community Structure at Qumran Alan W. Todd They also Dug! Archaeologists’ Wives and their Stories Norma Dever† Figure 1: ‘Dig wives’ in the twentieth century had many active roles to play on excavations. This photo from the Gezer excavations shows Norma Dever identifying pottery with William Dever and G. Ernest Wright. Figure 2: Norma Dever (at Gezer), working on reports with William Dever. Figure 3: Norma Dever (at Gezer), washing pottery with Carolyn Wright, Marion Beegle and an unidentified woman. Figure 4: Norma Dever (at Gezer), sorting sherds. Figure 5: William G. Dever, the author, and their son, Sean, at Gezer in 1971. Making Space: Women and Ovens in the Iron Age Southern Levant Jennie Ebeling Figure 1: A freestanding tabun room in a village in northern Jordan (2012). Photo by the author. Figure 2: A woman bakes bread in her tabun room in northern Jordan (2012). Photo by the author. Figure 3: Three tabun ovens made by a woman in northern Jordan dry in the sun in front of her house (2012). Photo by the author. Gender and Glass: An Historical and Contemporary Consideration Alysia Fischer Figure 1: IKEA, West Chester, OH: Kitchen Wares. Photo by the author. Table 1: Table using Brumfiel and Earle’s (1987) variables. Figure 2: Working hole/glory hole on the left, furnace on the right. Photo by the author. Figure 3: ‘Jacking’ the piece off the pipe. Photo by the author. Female Elders, Professional Potters, and Heritage Collecting Gloria London Figure 1: Bust mounted above the names of potters at Agios Demetrios. Photograph by Father Dometios, 2020. Figure 2: The side of the Agios Demetrios monument lists people who have helped preserve the industry. My name appears six lines from the bottom in English. Photograph by Father Dometios, 2020. Figure 3: Ceremony in Kornos to honor local potters, including potter Theognosia and archaeologist Gloria London. Photograph by Marcel den Nijs, 2016. Figure 4: Mrs Paraskivi together with her husband, Mr Hadjinicholas, the Secretary of the Kornos Pottery Cooperative, lift the lower body of an oven from the turntable to place it on the floor. More coils will increase the height comparable to the other t Figure 5: During stage 2 of the work, Mrs Kyriakou rewound a piece of string around the lower body of a jug on a turntable at Kornos. Stage 1 jugs with pinched rims stand on the ground until they will be lifted to the turntable to receive a handle. The po Figure 6: Members of the Kornos Pottery Cooperative stand in front of the workspace: Theognosia, Suzzana, Anthoulla, Theordora, Eleni Alecou, (from left rear), Paraskivi, Eleni Magirou, Maroulla, private potter Kyriakou with her husband, and the Secretary The Host and the Hosted: Commensal Politics and Cultural (Mis)understandings at Samson’s Wedding Laura Mazow The Host and the Hosted Figure 1: ‘Bedouin Wedding Procession” in the Jerusalem section of the Pike at the 1904 World’s Fair. Missouri History Museum. http://images.mohistory.org/image/E6D17E92-0707-764D-43F9-4CED107B6D0E/original.jpg Asherah: Everyone’s Favorite Girl Theodore W. Burgh Defending Scripture through Spiritual Archaeology Mark Elliott Unveiling Biblical Women with Accurate Translations of the Hebrew Feminine Elizabeth Ann R. Willett Women in Archaeology and Antiquity William G. Dever Back cover