A Zebu-Shaped Weight from Tel Beth-Shemesh
In 2007, a bronze zoomorphic weight, shaped as a humped bull or zebu, Bos indicus, was found in a Late Bronze Age context in the renewed excavations at Tel Beth-Shemesh. The similarity of this object to other figurines and balance weights not only demonstrates commercial and cultural ties among Late...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2011
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Israel exploration journal
Year: 2011, Volume: 61, Issue: 2, Pages: 146-161 |
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| Summary: | In 2007, a bronze zoomorphic weight, shaped as a humped bull or zebu, Bos indicus, was found in a Late Bronze Age context in the renewed excavations at Tel Beth-Shemesh. The similarity of this object to other figurines and balance weights not only demonstrates commercial and cultural ties among Late Bronze Age sites, but also indicates familiarity with this sub-species of cattle, usually associated with South Asia. Despite its excellent state of preservation, this weight does not reveal much about its particular position in the Beth-Shemesh economy because it was made with a hollow cavity used to modulate its mass. This zebu-shaped weight provides us with further evidence of the frontier status of Beth-Shemesh and points to the site's connections with the Eastern Mediterranean trade network of the Late Bronze Age. |
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