Networks of Specialized Knowledge
Cult and Its Imagery in Early Iron Age Malizi and Palastina
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4587278 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nathan Lovejoy (0000-0002-0124-5398, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 86 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 112-121 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Near Eastern Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1094-2076 • E-ISSN: 1557-5594 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/724782 |
| OpenAlex | W4377819040 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Recent research focused on the regions of Malatya and the northern Levant has allowed scholars to improve our understanding of the political history of the polities of Malizi and Palastina. The present article examines recent archaeological evidence from Arslantepe and several northern Levantine sites alongside a corpus of textual and iconographic data from the upper Euphrates and the northern Levant in an attempt to identify Early Iron Age networks of cultural exchange that resulted in shared specialized cultic and artistic knowledge. While networks of interaction between these regions may have begun as a product of persistent sociopolitical ties following the fragmentation of the Hittite Empire, this article proposes that it is due to the resilience of major cult centers that Malizi and Palastina were able to exchange specialized cultic knowledge and artistic traditions and employ them in the definition of their new Iron Age cultic and political communities
Ancient history · Archaeology · Bronze Age · Cult · Empire · Ethnology · Geography · Hittite language · Iron Age · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Southern Levant · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Ancient Near East History · Anthropology · Archaeology and Historical Studies · History · Law
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |