Leave your Stamp: Reconstruction of the Scarab Production Chain
Scarabs are beetle-shaped seals originating in Egypt during the third millennium BC. They were first imported into the southern Levant during the early second millennium BC (Middle Bronze Age I), leading to a flourishing of local production in the following centuries. From this point until the late...
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| author | Natasha Solodenko-Vernovsky Noa Ranzer Alex Kuklin Inbar Meyerson Evgeny Gasin Ido Koch |
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| description | Scarabs are beetle-shaped seals originating in Egypt during the third millennium BC. They were first imported into the southern Levant during the early second millennium BC (Middle Bronze Age I), leading to a flourishing of local production in the following centuries. From this point until the late first millennium BC, scarabs were the most common form of stamp-seal in the southern Levant. Past scholarship attempted to create criteria for the identification of Egyptian vs. southern Levantine scarabs, emphasizing mostly their typological and iconographic features, while other aspects of their production have largely been disregarded. In this article, we present the results of an experiment conducted to study a plausible production sequence involved in scarab manufacture. The broad goal of the experiment is to understand the various methods of production and to place the phases of production in a sequential order (their chaîne opératoire). |
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| spelling | doaj.art-41f5e8ae12734e48acd0d98ed31cd9692024-02-26T15:06:29ZengEXARCEXARC Journal2212-89562023-03-012023/1ark:/88735/10675Leave your Stamp: Reconstruction of the Scarab Production ChainNatasha Solodenko-VernovskyNoa RanzerAlex KuklinInbar MeyersonEvgeny GasinIdo KochScarabs are beetle-shaped seals originating in Egypt during the third millennium BC. They were first imported into the southern Levant during the early second millennium BC (Middle Bronze Age I), leading to a flourishing of local production in the following centuries. From this point until the late first millennium BC, scarabs were the most common form of stamp-seal in the southern Levant. Past scholarship attempted to create criteria for the identification of Egyptian vs. southern Levantine scarabs, emphasizing mostly their typological and iconographic features, while other aspects of their production have largely been disregarded. In this article, we present the results of an experiment conducted to study a plausible production sequence involved in scarab manufacture. The broad goal of the experiment is to understand the various methods of production and to place the phases of production in a sequential order (their chaîne opératoire).https://exarc.net/ark:/88735/10675stone workingbronze ageegyptisrael |
| spellingShingle | Natasha Solodenko-Vernovsky Noa Ranzer Alex Kuklin Inbar Meyerson Evgeny Gasin Ido Koch Leave your Stamp: Reconstruction of the Scarab Production Chain EXARC Journal stone working bronze age egypt israel |
| title | Leave your Stamp: Reconstruction of the Scarab Production Chain |
| title_full | Leave your Stamp: Reconstruction of the Scarab Production Chain |
| title_fullStr | Leave your Stamp: Reconstruction of the Scarab Production Chain |
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| title_short | Leave your Stamp: Reconstruction of the Scarab Production Chain |
| title_sort | leave your stamp reconstruction of the scarab production chain |
| topic | stone working bronze age egypt israel |
| url | https://exarc.net/ark:/88735/10675 |
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