Orit Shamir
Biographic Data
| ID | 3642294 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Orit Shamir |
| GIVEN NAMES | Orit |
| FAMILY NAME | Shamir |
| SIGNATURE | SHAMIR O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Israel Antiquities Authority |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5191-2734 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Textiles and Cordage from ‘Avdat—the Cave of the Saints
Textiles, Basketry, Cordage and Whorls from Mo’a (Moje Awad)
The artifacts were discovered in a way station along the Spice Route, which was exposed at Mo’a in the ‘Arava Valley. A total of 310 textile fragments were analyzed. They are made of wool, goat hair and linen, in plain weave and its variations. Dyed fabrics are also present. Some pieces were decorated with colored bands or tapestry. Most of the 88 basketry items were plaited. In addition, there are two braids, a sandal and a net. The cordage from…
The Spindle Whorls from Ashqelon, Afridar—Area E
Trash or Cache? The Textile Evidence from the Nahׅal ‘Omer Middens as an Indicator of Early Islamic-Period Trade Networks along Israel’s Silk Road
Middens provide an important source of data for exploring the history of ancient settlements. Excavations at the middens of Naḥal ‘Omer, an Early Islamic way-station in the ‘Arava desert, yielded a treasure-trove of textiles, such as silk and cotton, including ikats probably imported from India or South Arabia. The Early Islamic period witnessed a flourishing of artistic and cultural achievements, with textiles playing a central role in expressin…
An elite grave of the pre-Mongol period, from Dornod Province, Mongolia
On the Mongolian plateau, the period between the collapse of the Kitan Empire (c. 1125 CE) and the rise of the Mongol empire (1206 CE) is still poorly understood. Although events leading up to the rise of Chinggis Khan's initial Mongol state are recorded in a number of historical sources, these accounts often look backwards over decades or even centuries from the perspective of a mature empire already made. Archaeology provides one path towards a…
A Seal Impression of ‘ShemaꜤ Servant of Jeroboam’
The article deals with a small bulla of unknown provenance that was purchased some forty years ago in the Bedouin market of Beʾer Sheva. The bulla was stamped with a seal depicting a roaring lion, above which the letters (LSM[Ꜥ]) were straightforwardly identified; it closely resembles the famous ‘ShemaꜤ servant of Jeroboam’ seal from Megiddo. Significantly, this unique bulla represents, to date, the first example of an ancient bulla stamped with …
Networks of trade and exchange along the Israeli Silk Road
Excavations at Nahal Omer, an Early Islamic way station in the Negev Desert (sixth to ninth centuries AD), have yielded exotic textiles such as silks and cottons. Through a new study of these textiles, this project investigates the trade networks and global connectivity along this little-known artery of the Silk Road
Early Islamic Crude Handmade Ware
This study presents new evidence about a class of Early Islamic ceramics that have been largely overlooked; namely, crude handmade ware, sometimes previously referred to as ‘Negebite’ Ware, typical of the southern portions of what is now modern‐day Israel and Jordan. A large array of handmade vessels retrieved in excavations of an Early Islamic settlement in the Yotvata oasis of the ‘Arabah Valley, Israel and comparative material from neighbourin…
A New Jewelry Hoard from Eleventh-Century BCE Megiddo
A jewelry hoard was recently uncovered in Megiddo in destruction debris securely dated to the Early Iron Age I. The hoard was found only about 30 m from the Canaanite palace of the city of Stratum VIIA. Three groups of objects contained in the hoard are presented: a bundle of silver objects; a necklace made of electrum, carnelian, and silver beads; and ten elaborate electrum jewelry pieces. An earring from the latter group is a work of art that h…
Micro-RTI as a novel technology for the investigation and documentation of archaeological textiles
A Late Bronze Age II clay coffin from Tel Shaddud in the Central Jezreel Valley, Israel
To the memory of Trude Dothan 1922–2016During trial excavations carried out in 2013 on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, a seemingly isolated clay coffin with anthropoid lid, containing a single primary burial, was uncovered within a 6 m × 5 m probe bordering the lower east slope of Tel Shaddud in the Jezreel Valley. It lay at the bottom of a tightly constricted burial pit, about 1.8 m below the present surface. Subsequent salvage excav…
Pits and their Contents
Danny Rosenberg, Edwin C. M. van den Brink, Ron Shimelmitz, Assaf Nativ, Henk K. Mienis, Orit Shamir, Rivka Chasan, Tamar Shooval, דני רוזנברג, אדוין ון דן ברינק, רון שימלמיץ, אסף נתיב, הנק מיניס, אורית שמיר, רבקה חזן, תמר שובל, בורות ותוכנם: קדרון, אתר מתרבות ואדי רבה בשפלה, ישראל / Pits and their Contents: The Wadi Rabah Site of Qidron in the Shephela, Israel, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך מ"ז (2…
On early metallurgy and textile-production technologies in the southern Levant
In a recent article published in this journal, Langgut et al. (2016: 973) proposed five Late Chalcolithic ( c . 4300–4000 BC) wooden shafts to be “the earliest Near Eastern wooden spinning implements”. Here we discuss these unique finds in light of their cultural and technological contexts, and suggest an alternative interpretation according to which these wooden shafts, one with a lead macehead lodged on its upper end, were components of the cul…
If it looks like a duck
We appreciate the emerging discussion on the identification of the recently discovered Chalcolithic artefacts from the Judean Desert, and the careful attention to detail by Langgut et al. (above) that helps to further clarify our current understanding of spinning and metallurgical technologies in this period. Yet while we agree that by its nature archaeology is full of surprises and exceptional discoveries, we argue, however, that especially in s…
The Later Textiles, Basketry and Cordage from Caves in the Northern Judean Desert
An elite grave of the pre-Mongol period, from Dornod Province, Mongolia
On the Mongolian plateau, the period between the collapse of the Kitan Empire (c. 1125 CE) and the rise of the Mongol empire (1206 CE) is still poorly understood. Although events leading up to the rise of Chinggis Khan's initial Mongol state are recorded in a number of historical sources, these accounts often look backwards over decades or even centuries from the perspective of a mature empire already made. Archaeology provides one path towards a…
Micro-RTI as a novel technology for the investigation and documentation of archaeological textiles
Networks of trade and exchange along the Israeli Silk Road
Excavations at Nahal Omer, an Early Islamic way station in the Negev Desert (sixth to ninth centuries AD), have yielded exotic textiles such as silks and cottons. Through a new study of these textiles, this project investigates the trade networks and global connectivity along this little-known artery of the Silk Road
Early Islamic Crude Handmade Ware
This study presents new evidence about a class of Early Islamic ceramics that have been largely overlooked; namely, crude handmade ware, sometimes previously referred to as ‘Negebite’ Ware, typical of the southern portions of what is now modern‐day Israel and Jordan. A large array of handmade vessels retrieved in excavations of an Early Islamic settlement in the Yotvata oasis of the ‘Arabah Valley, Israel and comparative material from neighbourin…
On early metallurgy and textile-production technologies in the southern Levant
In a recent article published in this journal, Langgut et al. (2016: 973) proposed five Late Chalcolithic ( c . 4300–4000 BC) wooden shafts to be “the earliest Near Eastern wooden spinning implements”. Here we discuss these unique finds in light of their cultural and technological contexts, and suggest an alternative interpretation according to which these wooden shafts, one with a lead macehead lodged on its upper end, were components of the cul…
The Later Textiles, Basketry and Cordage from Caves in the Northern Judean Desert
A Late Bronze Age II clay coffin from Tel Shaddud in the Central Jezreel Valley, Israel
To the memory of Trude Dothan 1922–2016During trial excavations carried out in 2013 on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, a seemingly isolated clay coffin with anthropoid lid, containing a single primary burial, was uncovered within a 6 m × 5 m probe bordering the lower east slope of Tel Shaddud in the Jezreel Valley. It lay at the bottom of a tightly constricted burial pit, about 1.8 m below the present surface. Subsequent salvage excav…
Pits and their Contents
Danny Rosenberg, Edwin C. M. van den Brink, Ron Shimelmitz, Assaf Nativ, Henk K. Mienis, Orit Shamir, Rivka Chasan, Tamar Shooval, דני רוזנברג, אדוין ון דן ברינק, רון שימלמיץ, אסף נתיב, הנק מיניס, אורית שמיר, רבקה חזן, תמר שובל, בורות ותוכנם: קדרון, אתר מתרבות ואדי רבה בשפלה, ישראל / Pits and their Contents: The Wadi Rabah Site of Qidron in the Shephela, Israel, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך מ"ז (2…
On early metallurgy and textile-production technologies in the southern Levant
In a recent article published in this journal, Langgut et al. (2016: 973) proposed five Late Chalcolithic ( c . 4300–4000 BC) wooden shafts to be “the earliest Near Eastern wooden spinning implements”. Here we discuss these unique finds in light of their cultural and technological contexts, and suggest an alternative interpretation according to which these wooden shafts, one with a lead macehead lodged on its upper end, were components of the cul…
If it looks like a duck
We appreciate the emerging discussion on the identification of the recently discovered Chalcolithic artefacts from the Judean Desert, and the careful attention to detail by Langgut et al. (above) that helps to further clarify our current understanding of spinning and metallurgical technologies in this period. Yet while we agree that by its nature archaeology is full of surprises and exceptional discoveries, we argue, however, that especially in s…
Micro-RTI as a novel technology for the investigation and documentation of archaeological textiles
A New Jewelry Hoard from Eleventh-Century BCE Megiddo
A jewelry hoard was recently uncovered in Megiddo in destruction debris securely dated to the Early Iron Age I. The hoard was found only about 30 m from the Canaanite palace of the city of Stratum VIIA. Three groups of objects contained in the hoard are presented: a bundle of silver objects; a necklace made of electrum, carnelian, and silver beads; and ten elaborate electrum jewelry pieces. An earring from the latter group is a work of art that h…
Early Islamic Crude Handmade Ware
This study presents new evidence about a class of Early Islamic ceramics that have been largely overlooked; namely, crude handmade ware, sometimes previously referred to as ‘Negebite’ Ware, typical of the southern portions of what is now modern‐day Israel and Jordan. A large array of handmade vessels retrieved in excavations of an Early Islamic settlement in the Yotvata oasis of the ‘Arabah Valley, Israel and comparative material from neighbourin…
A Seal Impression of ‘ShemaꜤ Servant of Jeroboam’
The article deals with a small bulla of unknown provenance that was purchased some forty years ago in the Bedouin market of Beʾer Sheva. The bulla was stamped with a seal depicting a roaring lion, above which the letters (LSM[Ꜥ]) were straightforwardly identified; it closely resembles the famous ‘ShemaꜤ servant of Jeroboam’ seal from Megiddo. Significantly, this unique bulla represents, to date, the first example of an ancient bulla stamped with …
Networks of trade and exchange along the Israeli Silk Road
Excavations at Nahal Omer, an Early Islamic way station in the Negev Desert (sixth to ninth centuries AD), have yielded exotic textiles such as silks and cottons. Through a new study of these textiles, this project investigates the trade networks and global connectivity along this little-known artery of the Silk Road
Trash or Cache? The Textile Evidence from the Nahׅal ‘Omer Middens as an Indicator of Early Islamic-Period Trade Networks along Israel’s Silk Road
Middens provide an important source of data for exploring the history of ancient settlements. Excavations at the middens of Naḥal ‘Omer, an Early Islamic way-station in the ‘Arava desert, yielded a treasure-trove of textiles, such as silk and cotton, including ikats probably imported from India or South Arabia. The Early Islamic period witnessed a flourishing of artistic and cultural achievements, with textiles playing a central role in expressin…
An elite grave of the pre-Mongol period, from Dornod Province, Mongolia
On the Mongolian plateau, the period between the collapse of the Kitan Empire (c. 1125 CE) and the rise of the Mongol empire (1206 CE) is still poorly understood. Although events leading up to the rise of Chinggis Khan's initial Mongol state are recorded in a number of historical sources, these accounts often look backwards over decades or even centuries from the perspective of a mature empire already made. Archaeology provides one path towards a…
Textiles, Basketry, Cordage and Whorls from Mo’a (Moje Awad)
The artifacts were discovered in a way station along the Spice Route, which was exposed at Mo’a in the ‘Arava Valley. A total of 310 textile fragments were analyzed. They are made of wool, goat hair and linen, in plain weave and its variations. Dyed fabrics are also present. Some pieces were decorated with colored bands or tapestry. Most of the 88 basketry items were plaited. In addition, there are two braids, a sandal and a net. The cordage from…
The Spindle Whorls from Ashqelon, Afridar—Area E
Textiles and Cordage from ‘Avdat—the Cave of the Saints
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