November 14–17 | Denver, Colorado Welcome to ASOR’s 2018 Annual Meeting 2–6 History of ASOR 7 Program-at-a-Glance 12–14 Business Meetings and Special Events 16–17 Meeting Highlights 18 Members’ Meeting Agenda 18 Academic Program 22–49 Contents Projects on Parade Poster Session 50–51 of 2018 Sponsors and Exhibitors 52–57 2017 Honors and Awards 60 Looking Ahead to the 2019 Annual Meeting 61 2019 Annual Meeting Registration 62 Honorifc and Memorial Gifs 63–64 Table Table Fiscal Year 2018 Honor Roll 65–67 ASOR’s Legacy Circle 68 2018 ACOR Jordanian Travel Scholarship Recipients 68 2018 Fellowship Recipients 69 ASOR Board of Trustees 70 ASOR Committees 71–73 Institutional Members 74 Overseas Centers 75 ASOR Staf 76 Paper Abstracts 77–181 Projects on Parade Poster Abstracts 182–190 Index of Sessions 191–193 Index of Presenters 194–199 Notes 200 Meeting Mobile App and Wif Information 202 Hotel Information 203 Hotel Floor Plan 204 Cover photo credit: Marcia Ward and VISIT DENVER ISBN 978-0-89757-110-4 ASOR PROGRAM GUIDE 2018 | 1 American Schools of Oriental Research | 2018 Annual Meeting Welcome from ASOR President, Susan Ackerman Welcome to ASOR’s 2018 Annual Meeting! Te Program Committee has once more put together a rich and dynamic program, with papers, posters, and workshops that present our members’ cutting-edge research about all of the major regions of the Near East and wider Mediterranean, from earliest times through the Islamic period. Several sessions this year mark important anniversaries. ACOR—the American Center of Oriental Research—turns 50, and this milestone will be marked at a special session “ACOR at 50: A Retrospective and Prospective for the American Center of Oriental Research,” as well as at the three regular sessions on the “Archaeology of Jordan” scheduled for Tursday and Friday. CAARI— the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute—also observes a big birthday this year, its 40th, which will be celebrated at Friday’s three “Archaeology of Cyprus” sessions. Ten, on Friday evening, ACOR and CAARI have invited us to a reception honoring the incredible accomplishments of these two overseas research centers over the last decades—which will be our opportunity to thank ACOR and CAARI for all they do to facilitate ASOR members’ research in the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. Other sessions this year honor some of ASOR’s most distinguished members: Oded Borowski, Aren M. Maeir, and the late Kenneth G. Holum. Several sessions, moreover, speak to the ways in which technology is rapidly changing our feld: for example, “Digital Archaeology and History”; “Encoding Data for Digital Discovery”; and “Te Life Cycle of Archaeological and Philological Research Data in OCHRE.” Tere is even a session on the “Archaeology of the Near East and Video Games”! In addition, several sessions focus on specifc sites—for example, Antioch, Jerusalem, the Karak Plateau, and Megiddo. Also, I’d like to highlight two workshops that address very important contemporary issues: “Talking About: How to Make Fieldwork Safe from Gender-Based Violence, Harassment, and Discrimination” and “What’s in a Name? Re- assessing the Oriental in the American Schools of Oriental Research.” Finally, I invite everyone to join us for three all-member events. On Wednesday night, as always, we will gather for our annual plenary address. Tis year’s talk will be given by Professor Hélène Sader of the American University of Beirut, on the topic “Between Looters, Private Collectors, and Warlords: Does Archaeology Stand a Chance?” As a witness who observed and was engaged with all that happened to archaeology in Lebanon before, during, and afer that country’s civil strife, Professor Sader will bring her Lebanese perspective to bear on the phenomenon of endangered archaeology. Our next all-member event occurs on Tursday, from 1:00 to 2:00, when we are invited to join the Early Career Scholars Committee and the Ad-hoc Annual Meeting Committee for a discussion of “Where and When Do You Want to Meet?” As many ASOR members know, we decided during our 2007 meeting that the best time and place for the ASOR meeting was just prior to the SBL meeting and in the same city. However, as the combined SBL-AAR meeting has grown and swallowed up prime hotel space, we have been pushed increasingly to the outskirts of the cities where we meet. Our Tursday discussion is an opportunity to reassess our 2007 decision, especially as we look toward 2021, when there will essentially be no room for us downtown in San Antonio, the SBL-AAR venue. We convene again for our annual Members’ Meeting on Friday, from 12:45–2:00. We invite you to come and participate in the meeting’s business and in its celebration of the winners of this year’s ASOR Honors and Awards. But whether at the Members’ Meeting on Friday; at the special “Where and When Do You Want to Meet?” session on Tursday; at the Plenary Address on Wednesday; in paper sessions; at the “Projects on Parade” poster session; or at the ACOR-CAARI Friday evening reception, I look forward to seeing each and every one of you at ASOR’s 2018 Annual Meeting. Welcome to Denver! Susan Ackerman ASOR President 2 | ASOR PROGRAM GUIDE 2018 November 14–17 | Denver, Colorado Welcome from the Executive Director, Andrew Vaughn Welcome to our 2018 Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado. We are pleased to welcome the ASOR community to the Mile High City. Denver is the vibrant capital of Colorado. It enjoys more than 300 days of sunshine each year and dramatic mountain views. Tere are countless things for you to see and do during your stay. Your host hotel, the Denver Marriott Tech Center, is located in a part of Denver referred to simply as DTC (Denver Technological Center). Many global businesses have ofces in DTC, and the neighborhood boasts a variety of restaurants and shopping. Downtown Denver and the surrounding neighborhoods are easily accessible from DTC via the Light Rail. With Tanksgiving nearly upon us, there are so many individuals to whom thanks are due for making our extraordinary program possible. Tis ambitious and wide- ranging meeting was overseen by one hard-working and talented committee in particular—the Annual Meeting Program Committee, led by co-chairs Helen Dixon and Geof Emberling and supported by Arlene Press, Director of Meetings and Events. Tese co-chairs, and the Program Committee members with whom they work, are dedicated, diligent, enthusiastic, and committed to putting together an exciting educational program of 100 sessions and workshops and more than 500 papers and poster presentations. Many thanks are also due to the session chairs and presenters who will bring the program to life. I wish to thank several groups in particular for their generous fnancial support of our Annual Meeting. Notably, our overseas research centers, CAARI and ACOR, are hosting a reception on Friday evening in honor of their milestone anniversaries. Te Foundation for Biblical Archaeology and its director, Sheila Bishop, are providing crucial support for student scholarships. Te American Institute of Iranian Studies (AIIrS) has provided a generous grant to support the participation of three scholars from Iran in the session Archaeology of Iran. In addition, I would like to thank all of our exhibitors and encourage you to stop by and visit the displays. We would like to give our special thanks to this year’s Platinum Sponsors, ISD, Penn State University Press, the University of Chicago Press, and the Te Arizona Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Arizona, and to Silver Sponsor, Baker Academic. Last, but not least, I would like to extend special thanks and recognition to the ASOR staf. Teir hard work and dedication throughout the year make our Annual Meeting possible. Because ASOR is relocating to Alexandria, VA, this is also the last Annual Meeting for several of our staf who have worked with ASOR for almost a decade each—Britta Abeln, Inda Omerefendic, and Cynthia Rufo. I hope that you will reach out to them and extend your personal expressions of appreciation during the conference. Please mark your calendars for our 2019 Annual Meeting, which will be held at Te Westin San Diego from November 20–23, 2019. Please visit the meeting website at www.asor.org/am for details. We once again anticipate a full hotel, so I encourage you to make your reservations early. Please let me, or any member of the ASOR staf, know if there is anything we can do to make your experience in Denver a pleasant and rewarding one. I hope you enjoy this year’s Annual Meeting. With warm regards, Andrew G. Vaughn ASOR Executive Director ASOR PROGRAM GUIDE 2018 | 3 American Schools of Oriental Research | 2018 Annual Meeting Welcome from the Chair of the Board of Trustees, Richard Cofman Welcome to Denver, the capital of Colorado and an American metropolis dating to the Old West era—which is appropriate considering we are here to learn about old stuf. Denver is one of America’s truly unique cities. From the Rocky Mountains to “Unsinkable” Molly Brown’s house to Larimer Square to Bufalo Bill’s grave to the Coors Brewery to the multiple institutions of higher learning to the museums and restaurants, Denver is an embarrassment of historic, educational, culinary, and cultural riches. Speaking of an embarrassment of riches, we have one right here at the ASOR Annual Meeting. From the ACOR and CAARI birthday celebrations to the Posters on Parade to the academic papers, it will be a nonstop academia waltz. In fact, there are over 100 scheduled sessions and workshops to be led by a squadron of indomitable archaeologists, biblical and Islamic scholars, anthropologists, conservators/curators, historians, and other interdisciplinary specialists working in the Near Eastern and Mediterranean regions.