Philistine Iconography: A Wealth of Style and Symbolism
OBO 241,
Fribourg, Göttingen: Academic Press, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht.
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The volume consists of five chapters about Philistines: 1) an introduction to the meaning of iconography in material culture; 2) definition and presentation of Philistine Iron Age material culture and iconography; 3) iconographic representations in Iron Age Philistia; 4) the symbolic world of the Philistines; 5) conclusions. An appendix offers the list of the objects presented with archaeological data of the unpublished items.
Tell Mozan is directly mentioned on p. 115, n. 33, speaking about zoomorphic figurines: “In an analysis of nearly 400 zoomorphic figurines from an Early Dynastic context at Tell Mozan, the identification of species was carried out according to a careful examination of details and body proportions, using comparisons to real animals (Hauser 2007, pp. 3-11, 561-625, table 1); the result was that most were identified as Ovis/Capro and Equis”.
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