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Michal Artzy

fl. 1970–2015

Michal Artzy, Haifa archaeologist whose neutron-activation work showed the "Palestinian" Bichrome ware of eastern Cyprus to be local, and who had Alambra sherds analysed at Berkeley in 1976.

Biography

Forty pottery samples from the excavation at Alambra went to the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory for analysis in 1976 on the offer of "M. Michael Artzy", as Vassos Karageorghis recorded in his Chronique of that year's excavations in Cyprus1. The forename there is a misprint for Michal: Michal Artzy did postdoctoral research on ceramic provenance at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory from 1975 to 19774.

Her doctoral thesis at Brandeis University (Ph.D. 1972) used neutron activation analysis to trace the origin of the Bichrome pottery of the Middle and Late Bronze Ages4. With F. Asaro and I. Perlman she published "The Origin of the 'Palestinian' Bichrome Ware" in the Journal of the American Oriental Society in 19732. The analyses showed the "Palestinian" Bichrome found in eastern Cyprus to be local pottery3.

In 1978 she joined the University of Haifa, where she taught in the departments of Maritime Civilization and of Archaeology for more than forty years, rose to full professor and headed the Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies from 2011 to 2016. She has directed or co-directed excavations at eight sites, on land and under water, among them Tel Nami from 1985 to 19974.

Life and work

  1. 1976
    Offered (per Karageorghis's 1976 Chronique) to have 40 pottery samples from the Alambra excavation analysed at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory; the samples were sent.

    BerkeleyV. Karageorghis (1977). Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1976. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 101

  2. 1985
    Suggested that mariners were probably the artists behind the ship images at Hala Sultan Tekke: «According to Artzy it was probably the mariners who were the artists behind»; Co-authored «Ship Grafitti at Kition» (1985) with Lucien Basch: «Basch, Lucien and Michal Artzy. (1985) “Ship Grafitti at Kition”. In Excavation at Kition. V.»

    Ole Christian Aslaksen (eds), Local and Global Perspectives on Mobility in the Eastern Mediterranean (Athens, 2016), pp. 106

  3. 1985
    Co-author with Basch of the study of the Kition Temple 1 ship graffiti in Excavations at Kition V (1985).

    L. Basch and M. Artzy, 1985, Ship Graffiti at Kition, in Excavations at Kition V: The Pre-Phoenician Levels, Areas I and II, pp. 322–336

  4. 1986–1989
    Directed Tel Nami excavations 1986 to 1989; identified Cypriot origin of many Aegean-type vessels by petrographic and neutron activation analysis.

    Ayelet Gilboa; Assaf Yasur-Landau (2020). Nomads of the Mediterranean: Trade and Contact in the Bronze and Iron Ages. In Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 112. Brill. p. 278.

  5. Undated

In the field

1 record

Tel Nami

  • ExcavatedMichal Artzy reported that the finds were based on her excavations, conducted with her graduate student.

    Middle Cypriote pottery and settlement remainsIoannides 1992, p. 103

Connections

9 people
Liliane CourtoisI. PerlmanF. AsaroBaschNicolle E. HirschfeldJohn E. ColemanZofia Anna Stos-GaleF. AzaroJacqueline BalensiMichal Artzy
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Recording and study

6 records
Studied6

  • Michal Artzy carried out an incomplete study of the slips with I. Perlman and F. Asaro.

    Lawrence Berkeley LaboratoryArtzy 2001, p. 112

  • Michal Artzy examined and analysed some PWS from Episkopi-Phaneromeni.

    Artzy 2001, p. 114

  • M. Artzy and H. Sha selected 446 rim sherds for analysis.

    TAH anchorageBourogiannis 2022, p. 114

  • M. ARTZY discussed material from the Israeli coast and compared White Slip brushwork.

    White Slip I and White Slip II material from the Israeli coastEriksson 2007, p. 135

  • Michal Artzy presented and discussed Middle Cypriote pottery from Tel Nami.

    Ioannides 1992, p. 105

  • Michal Artzy, F. Asaro and I. Perlman used neutron activation analysis to investigate Bichrome Ware.

    Bichrome Ware from Palestine and CyprusPalestine and CyprusWood 1982, p. 73

Mentioned in

29 mentions

Documents · 14

Sources

  1. 1.V. Karageorghis (1977). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1976”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 101.
  2. 2.M. Artzy, F. Asaro, I. Perlman (1973). “The Origin of the 'Palestinian' Bichrome Ware”. Journal of the American Oriental Society 93, 446-461.
  3. 3.Desmond Morris (1985). The Art of Ancient Cyprus, with a check-list of the author's collection. Oxford, Phaidon Press in association with Jonathan Cape.
  4. 4.A. Yasur-Landau and A. Gilboa (2020). “Professor Michal Artzy: A Scholarly Life by the Mediterranean”. Nomads of the Mediterranean: Trade and Contact in the Bronze and Iron Ages. Studies in Honor of Michal Artzy, ed. A. Gilboa and A. Yasur-Landau, 13. Brill, Leiden. Online
  5. 5.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.
  6. 6.V. Karageorghis, P. Stavrou (1976). Treasures of Cyprus: An Exhibition of Cypriot Art.
  7. 7.W. Gauß (ed.), M. Lindblom (ed.), R. A. K. Smith (ed.), J. C. Wright (ed.) (2011). Our cups are full: Pottery and society in the Aegean Bronze Age. Papers presented to Jeremy B. Rutter on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Oxford, Archaeopress.
  8. 8.G. Bourogiannis (ed.) (2022). Beyond Cyprus: Investigating Cypriot Connectivity in the Mediterranean from the Late Bronze Age to the End of the Classical Period. Athens, AURA and Kardamitsa.
  9. 9.K. O. Eriksson (2007). “Transition from the LC IB Period and the Development of White Slip II”. The Creative Independence of Late Bronze Age Cyprus: An Account of the Archaeological Importance of White Slip Ware, 125-154.
  10. 10.G. C. Ioannides (ed.) (1992). Αφιέρωμα στο Βάσο Καραγιώργη / Studies in Honour of Vassos Karageorghis. Nicosia, Society of Cypriot Studies.
  11. 11.Bryant Wood (1982). “The Stratigraphic Relationship of Local and Imported Bichrome Ware at Megiddo”. Levant 14, 73-79.
  12. 12.Ayelet Gilboa; Assaf Yasur-Landau (2020). Nomads of the Mediterranean: Trade and Contact in the Bronze and Iron Ages. In Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 112. Brill. p. 278..
  13. 13.F. ASARO; D. ADAN-BAYEWITZ (2007). THE HISTORY OF THE LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY INSTRUMENTAL NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS PROGRAMME FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND GEOLOGICAL MATERIALS. In Archaeometry. pp. 201–214. p. 204.. Online
  14. 14.Ole Christian Aslaksen (eds), Local and Global Perspectives on Mobility in the Eastern Mediterranean (Athens, 2016).
  15. 15.L. Basch and M. Artzy, 1985, Ship Graffiti at Kition, in Excavations at Kition V: The Pre-Phoenician Levels, Areas I and II.
  16. 16.V. Karageorghis, 1977, Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1976.
  17. 17.M. Artzy, F. Asaro, I. Perlman, 1973, The Origin of the 'Palestinian' Bichrome Ware.
  18. 18.Hans-Günter Buchholz, Ugarit, Zypern und Ägäis: Kulturbeziehungen im zweiten Jahrtausend v.Chr. (1999).
  19. 19.V. Karageorghis et al., 1976, Treasures of Cyprus: An Exhibition of Cypriot Art.
  20. 20.A. Dissinger, 2017.
  21. 21.Cypriot Cultural Details: Proceedings of the 10th Annual Meeting of Young Researchers in Cypriot Archaeology (Hadjikyriako, Trentin, eds.).
  22. 22.The Earliest Representations of Brailed Sails (1993).
  23. 23.R. E. Jones, 1986, Greek and Cypriot Pottery: A Review of Scientific Studies.
  24. 24.R.E. Jones; J. Boardman; H.W. Catling; C.B. Mee; W.W. Phelps; A.M. Pollard, Greek and Cypriot Pottery: A Review of Scientific Studies (1986).
  25. 25.Karageorghis, Chronique des fouilles ... à Chypre en 1976, BCH 101 (1977).
  26. 26.Michal Artzy, 2001, White Slip Ware for Export? The Economics of Production.
  27. 27.Israel Exploration Journal 1975: Vol 25 Index (1975).
  28. 28.THE HISTORY OF THE LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY INSTRUMENTAL NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS PROGRAMME FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND GEOLOGICAL MATERIALS (2007).
  29. 29.Lindy Crewe, Early Enkomi: Regionalism, trade and society at the beginning of the Late Bronze Age on Cyprus (2007).
  30. 30.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).
  31. 31.Artzy et al., The Origin of the "Palestinian" Bichrome Ware, 1973.
  32. 32.W. Gauß et al., 2011, Our cups are full: Pottery and society in the Aegean Bronze Age. Papers presented to Jeremy B. Rutter on the occasion of his 65th birthday.
  33. 33.M. Artzy, 2006, The Jatt Metal Hoard in Northern Canaanite/Phoenician and Cypriote Context.

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