Shirly Ben-Dor Evian
Biographic Data
| ID | 1159317 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shirly Ben-Dor Evian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shirly Ben-Dor |
| FAMILY NAME | Evian |
| SIGNATURE | EVIAN S B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7906-4327 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Iron Age Trade in Bronze Age Scarabs at el-Ahwat, Israel
A newly discovered scarab from the 2024 excavation season at el-Ahwat features a well-known depiction of an Egyptian king on a chariot – a hallmark of Ramesside royal iconography. Similar scarabs from the Southern Levant are known from Late Bronze Age funerary contexts, but the el-Ahwat scarab was found in a secure Iron Age IB context, at a site that was not settled during the previous Late Bronze period. Therefore, this scarab, together with a p…
A monumental burial complex from an Amarna-age port at Yavneh-Yam, Israel
Despite its geographic correspondence with a key fourteenth-century BC port, the tell of Yavneh-Yam has yielded only meagre evidence for Late Bronze Age occupation. The recent discovery of a sealed monumental rock-cut burial cave with hundreds of grave goods provides the first clear evidence for a significant polity
Protecting and Presenting Armageddon
The vital behind-the-scenes work of conservation and site presentation at Tel Megiddo is essential to preserving the site for visitation and raising public awareness about its archaeological and historical significance. Protecting the site’s extensive archaeological remains from deterioration requires ongoing conservation efforts at every scale from small finds to large excavation areas. And as Megiddo evolves from a strictly archaeological site …
Iron Age ship cargoes from the harbour of Dor (Israel)
Connectivity and trade dominate discussions of the Mediterranean Bronze and Iron Ages, where artefacts travelled increasing distances by land and sea. Much of the evidence for the means through which such networks operated is necessarily indirect, but shipwrecks offer direct insights into the movement of goods. Here, the authors explore three Iron Age cargoes recently excavated at Tel Dor on the Carmel Coast, the first from this period found in t…
Materiality and Animism as Agents of Iconographic Change
Approaches based on theories of materiality and new animism have proven instrumental for the interpretation of archaeological objects. This study will take these approaches a step further and explore their consequences for changes in iconographic representation through a case study taken from the evolution of iconography on ancient Egyptian coffins. To this end, the article will explore the increased anthropomorphism of the Sycomore Goddess as sh…
Radiocarbon, Gezer, and Egypt
The challenges of radiocarbon dating a multi-period tel such as Gezer are many. The Tandy expedition employed various methods to overcome problems by adhering to certain collection strategies and stratigraphic affiliations of the samples. Additionally, in order to overcome possible bias in the results, the Tandy expedition used a Bayesian model based only on the stratigraphic sequencing with no “historical or typological constraints.” The Egyptia…
The Sheshonq Fragment from Megiddo
The limestone fragment inscribed with the royal names of king Sheshonq I was found at Tel Megiddo by the Oriental Institute team in 1925. Since its discovery, the piece has been interpreted as part of a large royal stela, erected by the monarch at the site as a sign of Egyptian hegemony. A recent reexamination of the original fragment reveals several anomalies in comparison to the known corpus of Egyptian stelae. Among these is the fragment’s unu…
Writing with pictures and depicting with words
This article presents a cross-cultural, diachronic, and comparative analysis of the representational aspects of picture-writing through the use of hieroglyphs in ancient Egypt and their revival in early Renaissance Europe. The two phenomena will be discussed with a focus on the functionality of the sign within the non-textual sphere, highlighting such similarities as the glottographic nature of the word-signs and the subsequent unified visuality …
Pharaoh’s copper
Sea Peoples of the Northern Levant? Aegean-Style Pottery from Early Iron Age Tell Tayinat , by Brian Janeway. Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant, Volume 7. Leiden
Ramesses III and the ‘Sea‐peoples’
The Philistine paradigm attempts to answer fundamental questions in Philistine history, namely the how and when of Philistine settlement in the southern Levant. According to the traditional paradigm, the Philistines, among other ‘Sea‐Peoples’, came from the Aegean islands and were settled in Egyptian strongholds in the south Canaanite Coastal Plain in the eighth year of Ramesses III. Formulated on the basis of Egyptian texts and Philistine archae…
Egypt and Israel
The significant interrelations between Egypt and Canaan during the Late Bronze Age are well known and have been studied in depth by various scholars. In comparison, the close ties between Egypt and Israel during the Iron Age are far less so. However, despite the Egyptian withdrawal from Canaan at the end of the Late Bronze Age, intense contact between the two regions never ceased, although their documentation in the historical record is scarce. T…
The Battles between Ramesses III and the “Sea-Peoples”
While building on previous works by such scholars as Heinz and Spalinger, the article presents a new methodology specifically devised for the analysis of Egyptian war reliefs. The article contends that many historical reconstructions regarding the “Sea-Peoples” have ignored the basic principles of ancient Egyptian iconic art and preferred intuitive interpretations of the reliefs. This has led to historical misconceptions about the battles and agg…
Egypt and Philistia in the Iron Age I
The article discusses the presence of Egyptian motifs and styles in Philistine pottery. Certain Philistine vessels display an Egyptianized decorative scheme dominated by a lotus flower motif. While these vessels have been previously recognized, their Egyptian parallels are presented here for the first time. The Egyptian prototypes are both regionally and chronologically restricted, as well as limited to mortuary contexts, while the Philistine ada…
Egypt and Philistia in the Iron Age I
The article discusses the presence of Egyptian motifs and styles in Philistine pottery. Certain Philistine vessels display an Egyptianized decorative scheme dominated by a lotus flower motif. While these vessels have been previously recognized, their Egyptian parallels are presented here for the first time. The Egyptian prototypes are both regionally and chronologically restricted, as well as limited to mortuary contexts, while the Philistine ada…
Pharaoh’s copper
Ramesses III and the ‘Sea‐peoples’
The Philistine paradigm attempts to answer fundamental questions in Philistine history, namely the how and when of Philistine settlement in the southern Levant. According to the traditional paradigm, the Philistines, among other ‘Sea‐Peoples’, came from the Aegean islands and were settled in Egyptian strongholds in the south Canaanite Coastal Plain in the eighth year of Ramesses III. Formulated on the basis of Egyptian texts and Philistine archae…
Egypt and Israel
The significant interrelations between Egypt and Canaan during the Late Bronze Age are well known and have been studied in depth by various scholars. In comparison, the close ties between Egypt and Israel during the Iron Age are far less so. However, despite the Egyptian withdrawal from Canaan at the end of the Late Bronze Age, intense contact between the two regions never ceased, although their documentation in the historical record is scarce. T…
The Battles between Ramesses III and the “Sea-Peoples”
While building on previous works by such scholars as Heinz and Spalinger, the article presents a new methodology specifically devised for the analysis of Egyptian war reliefs. The article contends that many historical reconstructions regarding the “Sea-Peoples” have ignored the basic principles of ancient Egyptian iconic art and preferred intuitive interpretations of the reliefs. This has led to historical misconceptions about the battles and agg…
Egypt and Philistia in the Iron Age I
The article discusses the presence of Egyptian motifs and styles in Philistine pottery. Certain Philistine vessels display an Egyptianized decorative scheme dominated by a lotus flower motif. While these vessels have been previously recognized, their Egyptian parallels are presented here for the first time. The Egyptian prototypes are both regionally and chronologically restricted, as well as limited to mortuary contexts, while the Philistine ada…
The Battles between Ramesses III and the “Sea-Peoples”
While building on previous works by such scholars as Heinz and Spalinger, the article presents a new methodology specifically devised for the analysis of Egyptian war reliefs. The article contends that many historical reconstructions regarding the “Sea-Peoples” have ignored the basic principles of ancient Egyptian iconic art and preferred intuitive interpretations of the reliefs. This has led to historical misconceptions about the battles and agg…
Ramesses III and the ‘Sea‐peoples’
The Philistine paradigm attempts to answer fundamental questions in Philistine history, namely the how and when of Philistine settlement in the southern Levant. According to the traditional paradigm, the Philistines, among other ‘Sea‐Peoples’, came from the Aegean islands and were settled in Egyptian strongholds in the south Canaanite Coastal Plain in the eighth year of Ramesses III. Formulated on the basis of Egyptian texts and Philistine archae…
Egypt and Israel
The significant interrelations between Egypt and Canaan during the Late Bronze Age are well known and have been studied in depth by various scholars. In comparison, the close ties between Egypt and Israel during the Iron Age are far less so. However, despite the Egyptian withdrawal from Canaan at the end of the Late Bronze Age, intense contact between the two regions never ceased, although their documentation in the historical record is scarce. T…
Sea Peoples of the Northern Levant? Aegean-Style Pottery from Early Iron Age Tell Tayinat , by Brian Janeway. Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant, Volume 7. Leiden
Writing with pictures and depicting with words
This article presents a cross-cultural, diachronic, and comparative analysis of the representational aspects of picture-writing through the use of hieroglyphs in ancient Egypt and their revival in early Renaissance Europe. The two phenomena will be discussed with a focus on the functionality of the sign within the non-textual sphere, highlighting such similarities as the glottographic nature of the word-signs and the subsequent unified visuality …
Pharaoh’s copper
The Sheshonq Fragment from Megiddo
The limestone fragment inscribed with the royal names of king Sheshonq I was found at Tel Megiddo by the Oriental Institute team in 1925. Since its discovery, the piece has been interpreted as part of a large royal stela, erected by the monarch at the site as a sign of Egyptian hegemony. A recent reexamination of the original fragment reveals several anomalies in comparison to the known corpus of Egyptian stelae. Among these is the fragment’s unu…
Materiality and Animism as Agents of Iconographic Change
Approaches based on theories of materiality and new animism have proven instrumental for the interpretation of archaeological objects. This study will take these approaches a step further and explore their consequences for changes in iconographic representation through a case study taken from the evolution of iconography on ancient Egyptian coffins. To this end, the article will explore the increased anthropomorphism of the Sycomore Goddess as sh…
Radiocarbon, Gezer, and Egypt
The challenges of radiocarbon dating a multi-period tel such as Gezer are many. The Tandy expedition employed various methods to overcome problems by adhering to certain collection strategies and stratigraphic affiliations of the samples. Additionally, in order to overcome possible bias in the results, the Tandy expedition used a Bayesian model based only on the stratigraphic sequencing with no “historical or typological constraints.” The Egyptia…
A monumental burial complex from an Amarna-age port at Yavneh-Yam, Israel
Despite its geographic correspondence with a key fourteenth-century BC port, the tell of Yavneh-Yam has yielded only meagre evidence for Late Bronze Age occupation. The recent discovery of a sealed monumental rock-cut burial cave with hundreds of grave goods provides the first clear evidence for a significant polity
Protecting and Presenting Armageddon
The vital behind-the-scenes work of conservation and site presentation at Tel Megiddo is essential to preserving the site for visitation and raising public awareness about its archaeological and historical significance. Protecting the site’s extensive archaeological remains from deterioration requires ongoing conservation efforts at every scale from small finds to large excavation areas. And as Megiddo evolves from a strictly archaeological site …
Iron Age ship cargoes from the harbour of Dor (Israel)
Connectivity and trade dominate discussions of the Mediterranean Bronze and Iron Ages, where artefacts travelled increasing distances by land and sea. Much of the evidence for the means through which such networks operated is necessarily indirect, but shipwrecks offer direct insights into the movement of goods. Here, the authors explore three Iron Age cargoes recently excavated at Tel Dor on the Carmel Coast, the first from this period found in t…
Iron Age Trade in Bronze Age Scarabs at el-Ahwat, Israel
A newly discovered scarab from the 2024 excavation season at el-Ahwat features a well-known depiction of an Egyptian king on a chariot – a hallmark of Ramesside royal iconography. Similar scarabs from the Southern Levant are known from Late Bronze Age funerary contexts, but the el-Ahwat scarab was found in a secure Iron Age IB context, at a site that was not settled during the previous Late Bronze period. Therefore, this scarab, together with a p…
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