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Les Carnets de l’ACoSt Association for Coroplastic Studies 13 | 2015 Varia Electronic version URL: http://journals.openedition.org/acost/566 DOI: 10.4000/acost.566 ISSN: 2431-8574 Publisher ACoSt Printed version Date of publication: 5 August 2015 Electronic reference Les Carnets de l’ACoSt, 13 | 2015 [Online], Online since 17 August 2015, connection on 23 September 2020. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/acost/566 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/acost.566 This text was automatically generated on 23 September 2020. Les Carnets de l'ACoSt est mis à disposition selon les termes de la licence Creative Commons Attribution - Pas d'Utilisation Commerciale - Pas de Modification 4.0 International. 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial Oliver Pilz Coroplastic Studies and the History of Religion: Figurines in Yehud and the Interdisciplinary Nature of the Study of Terracottas Izaak J. de Hulster Ein Affe spielt Tragödie. Zum Problem der Tiermaske bei vermeintlichen und tatsächlichen Schauspielerstatuetten Simone Voegtle Bust Thymiateria from Olbia Pontike Tetiana M. Shevchenko Les terres cuites figurées du sanctuaire de Kirrha (Delphes) : Bilan des premières recherches Stéphanie Huysecom-Haxhi Chroniques Entre la Mésopotamie et l’Indus. Réflexions sur les figurines de terre cuite d’Asie Centrale aux 4e et 3e millénaires Annie Caubet Painted Gallo-Roman Figurines in Vendeuil-Caply Adrien Bossard Travaux en cours A Catalogue of the Greek and Roman Terracottas in the Aydın Archaeological Museum Murat Çekіlmez A Survey of Terracotta Figurines from Domestic Contexts in South Italy in the 6th and 5th Centuries B.C.E. Aura Piccioni Two Collaborative Projects for Coroplastic Research, II. The Work of the Academic Year 2014-2015 Arthur Muller and Jaimee Uhlenbrock Dans les musées Gallo-Roman Terracottas at the Musée archéologique de l’Oise Adrien Bossard Life in Miniature Exhibition at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology: Intertwining Theoretical and Traditional Approaches in the Exhibition of Terracotta Figurines and Other Miniature Objects Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper Les Carnets de l’ACoSt, 13 | 2015 2 Les terres cuites à la une Au musée de l'archéologie, on peut adopter des figurines ! Le Parisien (17 Janv. 2015, Vendeuil-Caply) Patrick Caffin A Unique Shrine From the Late Iron Age in Jordan As reported in Nieuws-Suriname, December 2014 Jaimee Uhlenbrock Reported in Japan Realtime, Aug 22, 2014: Arts and Culture Jomon Terracotta Figurine Designated a National Treasure Jaimee Uhlenbrock Récentes conférences March 7, 2015, Institute of Fine Arts, New York UniversityOrganized by Angela Bellia and Clemente Marconi Representations of Musicians in the Coroplastic Art of the Ancient World: Iconography, Ritual Contexts, and Functions University of Haifa, Israel, March 23–25, 2015Organized by Adi Erlich Terracottas in the Mediterranean through Time Compte-rendu du colloque international25-26 juin 2015, Université de Strasbourg Figurines féminines nues. Proche-Orient, Égypte, Nubie, Méditerranée, Asie centrale (Néolithique - IIIe siècle apr. J.-C.) Sylvie Donnat Other Recent Conference Presentations and Public Lectures on Coroplastic Topics Jaimee Uhlenbrock Annonces A Terracotta Treasure at Assos Tuna Şare Ağtürk and Nurettin Arslan Bibliographie Recent Bibliography on Coroplastic Topics Les Carnets de l’ACoSt, 13 | 2015 3 Editorial Oliver Pilz 1 Dear Colleagues and Friends, 2 Recent times have brought considerable change for the Association for Coroplastic Studies. An important part of this change is the launch of Les Carnets de l’ACoSt, the new online journal of the Association, whose first issue I am pleased to introduce in my capacity as Editor-in-Chief chosen by the ACoSt Governance. The new periodical is meant both to replace and continue the Newsletter. As its predecessor, Les Carnets de l’ACoSt will be published on a biannual basis with a summer and winter issue. Les Carnets still invite short contributions on ongoing research, new books, recent conferences, etc., but also encourage the submission of longer scholarly articles dealing with all aspects of coroplastic production and iconography (for details, see Call for Submission). To ensure a high scientific quality, the latter submissions will be subject to a thorough peer-review process. Predictably, most of the submissions will be concerned with coroplastic products from the Mediterranean area, Egypt and the Ancient Near East, but I would like to emphasize that articles and communications dealing with material from beyond this geographical realm are also very welcome. Les Carnets de l’ACoSt will be permanently hosted by the French open access portal http://acost.revues.org. This not only allows for a wider outreach, but also enables a more reliable citation of the journal’s contents. My hope is that Les Carnet, as the first periodical entirely dedicated to coroplastic research, will stimulate the scientific debate in this fascinating field of study. 3 With best wishes. 4 Oliver Pilz Les Carnets de l’ACoSt, 13 | 2015 4 INDEX Keywords: journal, coroplastic, production, iconography AUTHOR OLIVER PILZ Johannes Gutenbert-Universität Mainz, Insitut für Klassische Archäologie [email protected] Les Carnets de l’ACoSt, 13 | 2015 5 Coroplastic Studies and the History of Religion: Figurines in Yehud and the Interdisciplinary Nature of the Study of Terracottas Izaak J. de Hulster 1 Readers of this new journal are familiar with coroplastic studies and most of them will have a sense of religious studies, as — in the core areas and periods covered by this journal — figurines are usually assumed to have a religious meaning. The presence of figurines in the archaeological record leads to various kinds of research in coroplastic studies and cognate fields of study (focused on a variety of, e.g., technical and social aspects). The project that I am introducing with this carnet note is based on the questioned presence of figurines in the Achaemenid province of Yehud, known as ‘Judah’ in reference to earlier periods, the area around Jerusalem. The figurine report of Shiloh’s excavations in Jerusalem’s ‘City of David’1 attributed all the figurine finds, except for a few earlier ones,2 independent of their stratigraphic contexts, to Iron Age II. This practice concurs with the tendency to abnegate figurines in Achaemenid Jerusalem and its surroundings.3 As such, I have introduced a rather archaeological debate but not one that is lacking historical, and in particular religious historical, consequences; various areas of interest within the interdisciplinary field of coroplastic studies shed light on these issues. Therefore, with this contribution to Les Carnets de l’ACoSt I also hope to stimulate thoughts about the interdisciplinary nature of coroplastic studies. 2 The Achaemenid period is usually regarded as the turning point (period) towards a religiously-fueled, programmatic aniconism in Yehud. Although Yehud may not provide an avalanche of pictorial sources, there were indeed images in Yehud. Centered on the iconography of Yehud, one part of my present project addresses, contrary to the present scholarly consensus, the presence of figurines similar to those figurines in Figure 1 in Jerusalem and its surroundings. Given the religious interpretation of figurines, the issue of either presence or absence is one of historical religious Les Carnets de l’ACoSt, 13 | 2015 6 importance, and through the reception of the Hebrew Bible, not only for this period, but also for the history of Judaism and Christianity. Fig. 1. Figurine compilation : bird pillar figurine ; lamp, Judean Pillar Figurine, bed model ; horse- and-rider. Source : combination of three figures from Keel and Uehlinger 2012 : respectively figures 320, 329, and 333b. 3 I have argued the case that despite the common assumption of an absence of figurines in the province Yehud, archaeological evidence supports the probability of the use of terracotta figurines even in Achaemenid period Jerusalem, the center of Yehud.4 Usually, it is assumed that such figurines were only used in Judah under the Assyrian hegemony. Since most scholars associate figurines with religious functions, they conclude that an absence of figurines in Yehud indicates the establishment of monotheism. My results thus far, however, have demonstrated that such a theory is, in fact, a ‘myth of the reborn nation.’5 This research, therefore, warns against viewing an ancient society as monolithic and shows the need to distinguish groups within a society and thus focuses on groups of actors, including possible minorities. Nevertheless, more detailed analysis is needed. In particular, besides specific contextual elements (whether demographical, technical, cultural, etc.), it would be important to know more about the “rise and decline” of certain figurine types and figurines in general. 4 Interestingly, even one of the most outspoken advocates of the absence of figurines in Yehud, Ephraim Stern, has excavated two figurines in the Achaemenid stratum at En Gedi (part of Yehud).6 Stern interprets these figurines as objects of transcultural exchange, commenting: “These two figurines presumably belonged to a non-Jew since pagan figurines were not ordinarily found at Persian period sites in the territories of Judah and Samaria”.7 Such a case needs to be scrutinized within a broader context of transcultural exchange of objects, groups of objects, and their material characteristics, typologies, iconographies, etc. and investigated for the change it might indicate, especially if Stern’s ‘migrant actor’ is to