Irit ZifferEretz Israel Museum Tel Aviv · Ceramics
Irit Ziffer
Doctor of Philosophy
Emerita
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A cylinder seal discovered in a cist tomb of the Late Bronze Age depicts a humped zebu bull and a horse framed by a branch motif. We suggest that the depiction of these animals is a multi-valent visual reference for a range of meanings of potency and power.
Dozens of pottery fire pans composed of a bowl-like part and a handle were found in the Philistine repository pit at Yavneh, Israel. They date from the ninth–eighth centuries BCE and are published here for the first time. These vessels, derived from second-millennium BCE Aegean forms, have never before been identified in the Southern Levant. On the...
This article examines the role of Syria-Palestine in the evolution of the long-enduring banquet theme that was first conceived in Greater Mesopotamia ca. 3000 BCE to carry a royal message. It traces the visual transformations of the banquet theme in the Levant during the second millennium BCE, while exploring how these changes inform repertoire ref...
