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Scholar

Israel Finkelstein

fl. 2003–2019

Scholar, active 2003–2019. Wrote with Alexander Fantalkin and Assaf Kleiman.

Life and work

  1. 2003
    Co-authored with Y. Goren and N. Na'aman the petrographic study of the Alashiyan tablets from El-Amarna and Ugarit (AJA 107, 233-255), the 'Location of Alashiya' paper.

    Kogan et al. 2010

  2. 2015
    Co-authored with A. Fantalkin and E. Piasetzky 'Late Helladic to Middle Geometric Aegean and Contemporary Cypriot Chronologies. A Radiocarbon View from the Levant', BASOR 373, 25-48.

    Rogge et al. 2019

  3. 2019
    Co-authored with A. Kleiman, A. Fantalkin and H. Mommsen a study of Black-on-Red sherds from Iron IIA contexts at Megiddo; archaeometric analysis of 10 sherds found them made in Cyprus, so production began there by c. 900 BCE, making Gjerstad's 'Levantine Phase' obsolete.

    MegiddoKleiman et al. 2019

Connections

6 people
Shlomo BunimovitzHans MommsenYuval GorenAlexander FantalkinAssaf KleimanNadav Na'amanIsrael Finkelstein
Scholarship

Scholarship

On Ancient Cyprus

1 page

Sources

  1. 1.Y. Goren, I. Finkelstein, N. Na'aman (2003). “The Location of Alashiya: New Evidence from Petrographic Investigation of Alashiyan Tablets from El-Amarna and Ugarit”. American Journal of Archaeology 107.
  2. 2.Leonid Kogan (ed.), Natalia Koslova (ed.), Sergey Loesov (ed.), Serguei Tishchenko (ed.) (2010). Language in the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the 53e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, vol. 1, part 2. Winona Lake, Eisenbrauns.
  3. 3.A. Kleiman, A. Fantalkin, H. Mommsen, I. Finkelstein (2019). “The Date and Origin of Black-on-Red Ware: The View from Megiddo”. American Journal of Archaeology 123, 531-555.
  4. 4.A. Fantalkin, I. Finkelstein, E. Piasetzky (2015). “Late Helladic to Middle Geometric Aegean and Contemporary Cypriot Chronologies: A Radiocarbon View from the Levant”. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 373, 25-48.
  5. 5.S. Rogge (ed.), Ch. Ioannou (ed.), Th. Mavrojannis (ed.) (2019). Salamis of Cyprus: History and Archaeology from the Earliest Times to Late Antiquity. Münster, Waxmann.