From: owner-ane@ (ANE Digest) To: ane-digest Subject: ANE Digest V2001 #164 Reply-To: Sender: owner-ane@ Errors-To: owner-ane@ Precedence: bulk ANE Digest Thursday, June 21 2001 Volume 2001 : Number 164 ane Tel el-Ful in Neo-bab. period Re: ane Cypriote Graves ane Tiberian Aramaic e~i, again ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 13:31:58 +0200 From: Cynthia Edenburg Subject: ane Tel el-Ful in Neo-bab. period I have been reading the recently published: E. Stern, *Archaeology of the Land of the Bible, pt. II: The Assyrian, Babylonian and Persian Periods*, and was looking for some clarification regarding the finds at Tel el-Ful. Stern writes on p. 322 of T. el-Ful: "The most recent excavation demonstrated that Period III consisted of two phases IIIA=650-586 BCE and IIIB=586-538 BCE [...] settlement did not end in destruction in 586 BCE, but continued through the end of the Babylonian period. There is no Persian-layer at this site." Here Stern seems to be summarizing P. Lapp, BA 28 (1965) and N. Lapp, AASOR 45 (1981). Farther down, p. 322-323 he mentions Mizpah, Gibeon and Mozah, writing: "All these Benjaminite settlements continued to exist during the rest of the Babylonian period. Some, such as Mozah and Mizpah, even continued into the Persian period. The archaeological evidence shows, however, that all these cities in the territory of Benjamin were laid waste in approximatedly 480 BCE. This date is virtually certain, and is based on the date of the the Attic pottery uncovered in the excavations of Mizpah, Bethel, Tell el-Ful and Gibeon." Then on p. 433-4 he summarizes Sinclair BA 27 (1964) and P and N Lapp mentioned above. Sinclair dated the end of what he identified as stratum IV A to the early 5th cen. BCE, while the Lapps assigned a different number to this phase and concluded that it ended towards the end of the 6th cen. Here Stern makes no mention of Attic pottery, but mentions "a large number of yehud seal impressions" uncovered by P. Lapp. My questions: 1. Is there good basis for assuming that settlement at T. el-Ful continued into the first quarter of the 5th cen? Does Stern seem to believe so? 2. What type of Attic pottery was Stern referring to that dates destructions or abandonment in Benjamin to 480 bce? (The chart at the end of the early edition of his "Persian Period" book (1973) lists only one "black burnished" piece from T. el-Ful; were more pieces of other types published by N. Lapp?) 3. Where are the "large number of yehud seal impressions" from T. el-Ful? P. Lapp (1965) p. 10 only mentions that the object registry includes "stamped jar handles including lmlk, yhd and yr$lm varieties", while N. Lapp (1981) p. 112 states that only one yhd stamped handle was found in the 1964 campaign. Were such YHD impressions previously published by Sinclair, or does Stern have knowledge of unpublished finds from T. el-Ful? Cynthia Edenburg The Open University of Israel Tel. 972-3-6460500 fax. 972-3-460767 Dept. of History, Philosophy and Jewish Studies POB 39328 Rehov Klausner 16 Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 61392 ISRAEL ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 12:00:46 +0100 From: "Freya Horsfield" Subject: Re: ane Cypriote Graves [forwarded from the Ancient Cyprus list http://groups.yahoo/groups/ancientcyprus ] Stephanie: Yes, Sjoqvist was referring to one of the so-called "tholos" tombs at Enkomi, specifically Swedish Tomb 21, published in SCE volume I. Two others were excavated by the French, one of which was published in some detail by Johnstone in Alasia I. O. Pelon wrote an article critical of alleged Aegean connections entitled "Les tholoi d'Enkomi" published in Acts of the International Archaeological Symposium: The Mycenaeans in the Eastern Mediterranean published in 1973. I haven't seen any recent discussion of Levantine connections but I may have missed something. There is some general discussion of built tombs in Cyprus in my dissertation, Mortuary Ritual and Social Hierarchy in Bronze Age Cyprus, University of Michigan 1989. Hope this is helpful. Priscilla Keswani - ----- Original Message ----- From: Stephanie Budin > Greetings, All! > > In his 1940 publication _Problems in Cypriot Archaeology_ > Sjoqvist mentions that in the LC I period a new style of grave appears in > Cyprus with direct antecedents in Megiddo. Could anyone please tell me: > If he is here referring to corbelled tombs? > If there is some slightly more recent bibliography on this > specific borrowing between Cyprus and the Levant? > If Kwasnik has in fact come out with her study of Cypriot tombs > from MC III-LC I? > > Many thanks in advance! > Stephanie L. Budin > sbudin@sas.upenn.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 10:47:10 -0400 (EDT) From: decaen@chass.utoronto.ca (Vincent DeCaen) Subject: ane Tiberian Aramaic e~i, again thanks to those pointing out Bauer & Leander (1927, section 5). it is true that they notice some correlation between the [i] variant and pause, but ultimately they don't offer any formal rule to distinguish [e] vs [i]: in effect not that much of an improvement over Rosenthal's interchangeability. my hunch is that it is related to pause, but perhaps in a way not yet considered. i'm toying with the idea of a "pausal phrase". V -- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Dr Vincent DeCaen c/o Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, 4 Bancroft Ave., 2d floor University of Toronto, Toronto ON, CANADA, M5S 1A1 Hebrew Syntax Encoding Initiative, www.chass.utoronto.ca/~decaen/hsei/ - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. --Dewey ------------------------------ End of ANE Digest V2001 #164 **************************** Back issues are available on the Oriental Institute World-Wide Web (WWW) site at: http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/ANE/OI_ANE.html