By David BenShlomo
The Philistines have been immigrants from the Aegean area and Cyprus arriving on the southern coast of Palestine/Israel through the twelfth century BCE. They created a different fabric tradition during this sector in the course of the Iron Age (ca. 1.200-600 BCE). This e-book provides and discusses the corpus of iconographic representations of the Philistine tradition. The assemblage studied comprises items in numerous media: ornament on pottery, figurative pottery, collectible figurines, ivory carving, glyptics and different goods. The figurative variety and symbolism represented within the tradition of the Philistines displays either their bonds with their Aegean fatherland and the continuing strategy of interactions with the neighborhood host cultures within the southern Levant. Iconography therefore offers an enormous set of facts for realizing social, ethnic, spiritual and ideological points of the Philistine society and its neighbours within the East Mediterranean.
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Cos. 31-61 ), however they are rather rare atAshdod (fig. 35 :3). These are defined as composite figurines, with mold-made heads of various styles; they are usually treated as a Levanto-Phoenician artifact (Pritchard 1943: 23-7,56-7; Moorey 2003: 47-50; Press 2007: 216-32, for more references). Such hollow standing figurines from Ekron include an example of the molded head type, with a Phoenician style head dress (fig. 35:2; obj. no. 7309, Gitin 2003: 287, fig. 4). This figurine is especially important as it was found in Temple-Palace Complex 650.
4) has two identical, yet fragmentary, deep impressions depicting a schematic figure with its arms raised as in a greeting, dancing or worshipping gesture, and the edges of another figure. A sealing fragment with a worn, rectangular seal impression (Ben-Shlomo 2006c: 140, fig. 5) possibly depicts two or three standing figures.
Many examples come from the Iron Age II levels of Ashdod (most well known is the 'Musicians' stand') and the newly discovered assemblage of the favissa at Yavneh (Kletter, Ziffer and Zwickel 2006; Ziffer and Kletter 2007); additional items come from Tel Qasile and other sites. Some of these items could be classified as terracottas or figurines, but these are often not independent objects and are part of larger compositions, such as stands or architectural models. 1. Terracottas Anthropomorphic vessels from Philistia are very few, and therefore their stylistic development cannot be followed.