Research & Publications


Books

2020 The Ancient Throne: The Mediterranean, Near East, and Beyond, from the 3rd Millennium BCE to the 14th Century CE. Proceedings of the Workshop held at the 10th ICAANE in Vienna, April 2016, eds. L. Naeh and D. Brostowsky Gilboa. International Series OREA. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press.

Selected Articles, Book Chapters, and Encyclopedic Entries

2022 The Geometric Bone Inlays and Boxes of Area K. Chapter 17 in Megiddo VI. The 2010-2014 Seasons, Vol. I, eds. I. Finkelstein and M. Martin. Monograph Series of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University, Pp. 469-497. Tel Aviv: The Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University.

2020 In the Presence of the Ancient Throne: An Introduction. Pp. 13-20 in The Ancient Throne: The Mediterranean, Near East, and Beyond, from the 3rd Millennium BCE to the 14th Century CE. Proceedings of the Workshop held at the 10th ICAANE in Vienna, April 2016, eds. L. Naeh and D. Brostowsky Gilboa. International Series OREA. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. 

2017a An Anthropomorphic Ivory Head. Pp. 533-538 In Hazor VII. The 1990–2012 Excavations. The Bronze Age, eds. A. Ben-Tor, S. Zuckerman, S. Bechar and D. Sandhaus. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society and the Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. [academia.edu link]

2017b A Bone Plaque with Egyptianized Decoration. Pp. 548-550 In Hazor VII. The 1990–2012 Excavations. The Bronze Age, eds. A. Ben-Tor, S. Zuckerman, S. Bechar and D. Sandhaus. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society and the Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. [academia.edu link]

2015a* In Search of Identity: The Contribution of Recent Finds to Our Understanding of Iron Age Ivory Objects in the Material Culture of the Southern Levant. Altorientalische Forschungen 42(1): 80–96. [academia.edu link]

* Winner of the 16th Annual Sean W. Dever Memorial Prize. [link for prize and article covered in Biblical Archaeology Review 2017]

2015b Worked Ivory and Bone Objects from the Ophel. Pp. 581-616 In Ophel I, ed. E. Mazar. Jerusalem: Shoham Academic Research and Publication. [academia.edu link]

2015c Nahariyah. P. 638 in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions, ed. E. Orlin. New York: Routledge. [academia.edu link]

2012 Just a Sip and a Bite: The Miniature Pottery Vessels of the Middle Bronze Age II Temple at Nahariya, Israel - The Key Questions. Pp. 186-200 in Proceedings of the 7th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. 12-16 April, the British Museum and UCL, London. Vol. 1, eds. R. Matthews, J. Curtis, M. Seymour, A. Fletcher, C. Glatz, J. Simpson, H. Taylor, J. Tubb, and R. Chapman. Harrasowitz: Wiesbaden. [academia.edu link]

Selected Reviews

2022 Review of ‘Figurines: Figuration and the Sense of Scale. Visual Conversations in Art and Archaeology, edited by J. Elsner’. Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Free-access online).

2020 Review of ‘Art and Immortality in the Ancient Near East’, By Mehmet-Ali Ataç. American Journal of Archaeology 124(2), online. [Open Access link].


Banner image: Detail of the Megiddo Banquet inlay, the Late Bronze Age (from the collections of the IAA at the Israel Museum: learn more here).  

Studying Iron Age ivories from Samaria at 

the Harvard Art Museums, Boston, 2019. 


Research in Progress

Objects + Questions 

On My Mind at the Moment

Article in process: The making and use of Seven-Cupped Bowls from Nahariyah, a Middle Bronze Age cult site at Northern Israel. 

Article in process: Time and space as represented on Levantine-styled game boxes of the Bronze Age.

Ongoing book project: The Ivory Throne of the Levantine Kings.