Stone Vessels

Karin Sowada

Stone Vessels

Department of Ancient History

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

Abstract

In the Early Levant and Mesopotamia, stone vessels functioned at different levels of ancient societies. Key areas - Egypt, Crete, the Gulf, Iran and Southern Mesopotamia -produced distinctive shapes with characteristic stones, using manufacturing techniques that differed across the region. Using the ARCANE Regional and chronological framework, key shapes, stone types, and the movement of stone vessels are outlined. With emphasis on exchange mechanisms in the Levant, it is demonstrated that stone vessels purposed beyond the strictly utilitarian were a prestige item, coveted and acquired by elites for religious, political or funerary display, and as a means of projecting state ideologies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Associated Regional Chronologies for the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean
Subtitle of host publication	ARCANE Interregional Vol. II: Artefacts
Editors	Marc Lebeau
Place of Publication	Turnhout
Publisher	Brepols
Pages	245-276
Number of pages	32
ISBN (Print)	9782503549880
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	5th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East - University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain Duration: 3 Apr 2006 → 8 Apr 2006 Conference number: 11 http://www.orientlab.net/icaane/5icaane/

Publication series

Name	Associated Regional Chronologies for the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean
Publisher	Brepols

Conference

Conference	5th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East
Abbreviated title	ICAANE
Country	Spain
City	Madrid
Period	3/04/06 → 8/04/06
Internet address	http://www.orientlab.net/icaane/5icaane/

Keywords

Levant
Material culture--Egypt
Stone Artefacts
Stone vessels
Egypt--Old Kingdom

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Pyramids, power and the dynamics of states in crisis
Sowada, K.
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Project: Research

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Congress paper "Egyptian Stone Vessels in EB II and EB III Canaan"
Karin Sowada (Speaker)
7 Apr 2006
Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation

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Sowada, K 2018, Stone Vessels. in M Lebeau (ed.), Associated Regional Chronologies for the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean: ARCANE Interregional Vol. II: Artefacts. Associated Regional Chronologies for the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean, Brepols, Turnhout, pp. 245-276, 5th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Madrid, Spain, 3/04/06.

Stone Vessels. / Sowada, Karin.

Associated Regional Chronologies for the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean: ARCANE Interregional Vol. II: Artefacts. ed. / Marc Lebeau. Turnhout : Brepols, 2018. p. 245-276 (Associated Regional Chronologies for the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

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Stone Vessels

Abstract

Publication series

Conference

Keywords

Pyramids, power and the dynamics of states in crisis

Congress paper "Egyptian Stone Vessels in EB II and EB III Canaan"

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