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Jacqueline Balensi

fl. 1980–2019

Scholar and archaeologist, active 1980–2019.

Life and work

  1. 1980–1981
    Published the pottery from Tell Abu Hawam (1980), including about 200 Cypriot finds and the unregistered Cypriot sherds from Hamilton's excavations, and directed later work at the site; identified the Tell Keisan 'Myc IIIC' stirrup jar as Cypriot (1981).

    Aaron Greener, Late Bronze Age Imported Pottery in the Land of Israel: Between Economy, Society and Symbolism (2015), p. 185

  2. 1980
    Published the 1980 study of Tell Abu Hawam pottery, including about 200 Cypriot finds, and later reported that Cypriot imports made up 40% of ceramic finds in a later LBA stratum.

    Carol Bell, The Evolution of Long Distance Trading Relationships across the LBA/Iron Age Transition on the Northern Levantine Coast: Crisis, continuity and change (2006), p. 46

  3. 1987
  4. 2019
    Said in the recorded talk «A Conference in Honour of A. Bernard Knapp: Bronze Age Anchorages at Maroni-Tsaroukkas and Tell Abu Hawam, and the Late Roman Maritime Landscape» (Archaeological Research Unit - University of Cyprus, 2019-06-07): Brought the Tell Abu Hawam site back to attention in the 1980s and was dedicated to the site.

    Kerry Fulton, Michal Artzy and Stella Demesticha, «A Conference in Honour of A. Bernard Knapp: Bronze Age Anchorages at Maroni-Tsaroukkas and Tell Abu Hawam, and the Late Roman Maritime Landscape», recorded conference paper, A Conference in Honour of A. Bernard Knapp: The Archaeology of Cyprus and the Wider Mediterranean, Archaeological Research Unit - University of Cyprus, published on YouTube 2019-06-07, at 0:40:16

  5. Undated
    Directed work at Tell Abu Hawam that brought back archaeological and historical importance to the site, cited for Stratum V correlations.

    Peter Warren; Vronwy Hankey, Aegean Bronze Age Chronology (1989), p. 156

  6. Undated

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  • Jacqueline Balensi reported the percentage of Cypriote imports in a stratified excavation area.

    Cypriote imports in a stratified area of Tell Abu HawamTell Abu HawamArtzy 2001, p. 107

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8 mentions

Sources

  1. 1.Michal Artzy (2001). “White Slip Ware for Export? The Economics of Production”. The White Slip Ware of Late Bronze Age Cyprus: Proceedings of an International Conference Organized by the Anastasios G. Leventis Foundation, Nicosia in Honour of Malcolm Wiener, Nicosia 29th-30th October 1998. Wien, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
  2. 2.Aaron Greener, Late Bronze Age Imported Pottery in the Land of Israel: Between Economy, Society and Symbolism (2015).
  3. 3.Carol Bell, The Evolution of Long Distance Trading Relationships across the LBA/Iron Age Transition on the Northern Levantine Coast: Crisis, continuity and change (2006).
  4. 4.Peter Warren; Vronwy Hankey, Aegean Bronze Age Chronology (1989).
  5. 5.Sea Peoples and Phoenicians along the Southern Phoenician Coast: A Reconciliation: An Interpretation of Šikila (SKL) Material Culture (2005).
  6. 6.Hans-Günter Buchholz, Ugarit, Zypern und Ägäis: Kulturbeziehungen im zweiten Jahrtausend v.Chr. (1999).
  7. 7.Kerry Fulton, Michal Artzy and Stella Demesticha, «A Conference in Honour of A. Bernard Knapp: Bronze Age Anchorages at Maroni-Tsaroukkas and Tell Abu Hawam, and the Late Roman Maritime Landscape», recorded conference paper, A Conference in Honour of A. Bernard Knapp: The Archaeology of Cyprus and the Wider Mediterranean, Archaeological Research Unit - University of Cyprus, published on YouTube 2019-06-07, at 0:40:16. Online

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