Excavator · Scholar · Cataloguer · Archaeologist
Gottlieb Schumacher
fl. 1903–1929
Excavator and scholar, active 1903–1929. Excavated with Watzinger; worked for Oriental Institute of Chicago.
Life and work
- 1903–1908Excavated Tell el-Mutesellim (Megiddo) in 1903–1905 and published the excavation volume in 1908, cited for the Megiddo volute capitals.
Librairie Paul Geuthner, Syria Revue Dart Oriental Et Darcheologie Tome.12 (1931)
- 1903Co-author with Carl Watzinger of the Tell el-Mutesellim (Megiddo) report; found the first stone volute capital there in 1903, compared with Tamassos.
- 1903Excavated the first stone volute at Tell el-Mutasellim (Megiddo) in 1903; the passage does not tie him to Cyprus beyond the Tamassos comparison.
- 1908Directed one of several archaeological teams that excavated the site of Samaria, in 1908.
- 1908Published the Megiddo excavation volume (Tell-el-Mutesellim) in 1908 that is cited for Megiddo volute-capitals; no Cyprus-specific action stated.
- 1908Discovered Burials T. 1 and T. 2 at Megiddo, published in 1908, which contained a Cypriot Monochrome bowl.
Rivka Gonen, Burial Patterns and Cultural Diversity in Late Bronze Age Canaan (1992), p. 139
- UndatedExcavator at Megiddo, where he found a capital of Cypriot type and devised the level numbering later retained; he judged a terracotta horse from tombs near Haifa to be Cypriot.
Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 1908: Vol 30-31 (1908)
- UndatedExcavated at Megiddo and found a capital of pure Cypriot type, cited as evidence of Cypriot style influence.
- UndatedDevised the level numeration used at Megiddo, which the author retains while renumbering the third and fourth levels.
The Journal of the Palestine Oriental Society 1922-1923: 2-3 (1922)
- Undatednamed with Nordburg hyksos level at Megiddo in Claude Schaeffer's papers (Collège de France), 1 document.
Connections
2 peopleFieldwork & employment
Disputes & the law
- Rival of E. SellinGezer and Taanach (1906), p. 1161906
Mentioned in
7 mentionsDocuments · 5
- Burial Patterns and Cultural Diversity in Late Bronze Age Canaan
Gonen 1992
- The Arts in Pre-Roman Cyprus
Hill 2010
- The Fire Signals of Lachish: Studies in the Archaeology and History of Israel in the Late Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Persian Period in Honor of David Ussishkin
Finkelstein & Na'aman 2011
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Meyers 1997
- The Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia: From the Early Bronze Age to the Fall of the Persian Empire
Bryce et al. 2009
- People · 2listed under Connections
Sources
- 1.Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 1908: Vol 30-31 (1908).
- 2.Institut international d 'anthropologie, Paris (France) École d 'anthropologie, Revue anthropologique (1908).
- 3.The Journal of the Palestine Oriental Society 1922-1923: 2-3 (1922).
- 4.Librairie Paul Geuthner, Syria Revue Dart Oriental Et Darcheologie Tome.12 (1931).
- 5.Trevor Bryce; Heather D. Baker; Daniel T. Potts; Jonathan N. Tubb; Jennifer M. Webb; Paul Zimansky, The Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia: From the Early Bronze Age to the Fall of the Persian Empire (2009).
- 6.The Arts in Pre-Roman Cyprus (2010).
- 7.Eric M. Meyers; William G. Dever; Carol L. Meyers; James D. Muhly; Dennis Pardee; James A. Sauer, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East (1997).
- 8.Israel Finkelstein; Nadav Na'aman, The Fire Signals of Lachish: Studies in the Archaeology and History of Israel in the Late Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Persian Period in Honor of David Ussishkin (2011).
- 9.Rivka Gonen, Burial Patterns and Cultural Diversity in Late Bronze Age Canaan (1992).
- 10.Collège de France, Paris, Fonds Claude Schaeffer (34 CDF), 34 CDF art. 242, «[Cahier de notes concernant Chypre, Gaza, Jéricho, l'Egypte, la Syrie (chronologies)]», undatedof 107. Online
- 11.Gezer and Taanach (1906).
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