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    Technological Insights on the Philistine Culture: Perspectives from Tell es-Safi/Gath
    Maeir, AM ; Ben-Shlomo, D ; Cassuto, D ; Chadwick, JR ; DAVIS, BE ; Eliyahu Behar, A ; Frumin, S ; Gur-Arieh, S ; Hitchcock, LA ; Kolska Horwitz, L ; Manclossi, F ; Rosen, SA ; Verduci, J ; Weiss, E ; Welch, E ; Workman, V (Penn State University Press, 2019)
    More than a century of study of the Philistines has revealed abundant remains of their material culture. Concurrently, our understanding of the origins, developmental processes, and socio-political matrix of this fascinating culture has undergone major changes. Among other facets, Philistine technology has been discussed, but in our opinion, a broad view of its importance for understanding Philistine culture is still lacking. The more than twenty years of excavation at Tell es-Safi/Gath, one of the central sites in Iron Age Philistia, offers an opportunity to review a broad range of technologically-related evidence from this site, and from this to offer a current interpretation of Philistine technology within the broader picture of the Iron Age and the processes, mechanisms, interactions, and identity politics of this culture.
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    Philistine Names and Terms Once Again: A Recent Perspective
    Maeir, AM ; Davis, BE ; Hitchcock, LA (Penn State University Press, 2016)
    In the last decade or so, new data and interpretations on the onomastics of Iron Age Philistia have appeared. In this article, we review, discuss, and suggest some insights regarding some of these Philistine personal names (e.g., Goliath), names of deities (e.g., PTGYH), and terms (e.g., seren). We assess them from linguistic, cultural, anthropological, and historical points of view. We then propose how they can be understood within the wider socio-cultural context(s) of Iron Age Philistia specifically and the wider eastern Mediterranean in general, and how they can be incorporated into efforts to understand the origins, development, and transformation of the Philistines and their culture(s).
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    An ivory bowl from Early Iron Age Tell es-Safi/Gath (Israel): manufacture, meaning and memory
    Maeir, AM ; Davis, B ; Horwitz, LK ; Asscher, Y ; Hitchcock, LA (Routledge, 2015)
    In 2013, an ivory bowl was discovered in a chalky matrix in the Early Iron Age (Philistine) levels in Area A at Tell es-Safi/Gath. Conservation revealed it to be a shallow vessel with a single lug handle, decorated in the interior and on the base with an incised twelve-petal lotus-rosette surrounded by five concentric circles. Applying an object biography approach, we investigate the history and far-flung socio-cultural connections of the Tell es-Safi/Gath bowl, which is unique within Philistia. Specific reference is made to parallels in the ivory hoard from the Late Bronze/Iron Age transition (c. late twelfth century/early eleventh century bce) palace at Megiddo, Stratum VIIA. It is proposed that the Tell es-Safi/Gath bowl was one of a set manufactured somewhere in Canaan. The vessel became separated from the set, ending up as a foundation offering at this Philistine site.
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