The inscribed terracotta Aphrodite from Mount Carmel revisited in context

This study proposes that the terracotta figurine of Aphrodite from el-Wad Cave (Meʿarat ha-Naḥal) on Mount Carmel is an eastern import from Asia Minor, possibly Myrina (Aeolis), depicting an Aphrodite Anadyomene of late Hellenistic or Roman date from the first century BCE--first century CE. This con...

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Main Author: Klinger, Sonia (Author)
Format: Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Soc. 2017
In: Israel exploration journal
Year: 2017, Volume: 67, Issue: 1, Pages: 76-109
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Carmel / Figure / Woman / Symbolics / Terra-cotta / Aphrodite, Goddess / Inscription
IxTheo Classification:AA Study of religion
BC Ancient Orient; religion
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Summary:This study proposes that the terracotta figurine of Aphrodite from el-Wad Cave (Meʿarat ha-Naḥal) on Mount Carmel is an eastern import from Asia Minor, possibly Myrina (Aeolis), depicting an Aphrodite Anadyomene of late Hellenistic or Roman date from the first century BCE--first century CE. This conclusion is supported by a petrographical examination of its clay, a close examination of the figurine’s clay fabric and manufacturing technique and careful reconstruction of its original appearance. Set within an increasingly large corpus of published terracotta figurines found in Israel and elsewhere, the study clarifies the figure’s style, date and iconographic type, offers a new understanding of its inscription and suggests that it may have entered the Land of Israel through the port of Dor or, more probably, Caesarea, later to be deposited in the cave as a cultic votive.
ISSN:0021-2059
Contains:Enthalten in: Israel exploration journal