1This interdisciplinary volume is a ‘one-stop location’ for the most up-to-date scholarship on Southern Levantine figurines in the Iron Age. The essays address terracotta figurines attested in the Southern Levant from the Iron Age through the Persian Period (1200–333 BCE). The volume deals with the iconography, typology, and find context of female, male, animal, and furniture figurines and discusses their production, appearance, and provenance, including their identification and religious functions. While giving priority to figurines originating from Phoenicia, Philistia, Jordan, and Israel/Palestine, the volume explores the influences of Egyptian, Anatolian, Mesopotamian, and Mediterranean (particularly Cypriot) iconography on Levantine pictorial material.

Chapter 1. Erin D. Darby and Izaak J. de Hulster, Introduction, 1–9

Chapter 2. Izaak J. de Hulster, “Iron Age Terracotta Figurines from the Levant: A Comparative and Iconographic Perspective,” 10–49

Chapter 3. Annie Caubet, “A Technical Perspective on Some Iron Age Pillar Figures from Cyprus and the Levant,” 50–65.

Chapter 4. Astrid Nunn, “Anthropomorphic Figurines from Iron Age II Phoenicia,” 66–118.

Chapter 5. David Ben-Shlomo, “Iron Age Figurines from Philistia,” 119–147.

Chapter 6. Margaret Cohen, “Iron Age Figurines from Philistia and Phoenicia: A Response,” 148–162

Chapter 7. Robert Deutsch, “Judahite Pillar Figurines: More Questions than Answers,” 163–177

Chapter 8. Erin D. Darby, “Sex in the City? Judean Pillar Figurines and the Archaeology of Jerusalem,” 178–214.

Chapter 9. Beth Alpert Nakhai, “Response to Darby and Deutsch,” 215–219.

Chapter 10. Regine Hunziker-Rodewald, “Molds and Mold-Links: A Close View on the Female Terracotta Figurines from Iron Age II Transjordan,” 220–255.

Chapter 11. P.M. Michèle Daviau and Emily Zeran, “Astarte on Her Horse at Khirbat al-Mudayna in Northern Moab,” 256–284.

Chapter 12. Margreet L. Steiner, “Response to Hunziker-Rodewald and Daviau and Zeran,” 285–291.

Chapter 13. Erin Walcek Averett, The Iron Age Terracotta Figurines from Cyprus, 292–332.

Chapter 14. Alexander Pruss, Iron Age Figurines from Syria, 333–374.

Chapter 15. Veit Vaelske, Coroplastic Figural Art in Egypt during the Late Period (664–332 BC), 375–424