Masters of Fire: Copper Age Art in Israel

Masters of Fire: Copper Age Art from Israel (Hardcover)
Edited by Michael Sebbane, Osnat Misch-Brandl, and Daniel M. Master
ISBN: 9780691162867
Published:03/04/2014
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 184
Size: 8.5 x 11.5 in.

The catalogue for the exciting exhibition at New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, Masters of Fire presents a comprehensive overview of the little-known yet extraordinary Chalcolithic culture, which existed in the southern Levant from 4500–3600 bce.

Masters of Fire focuses on the people of the southern Levant who harnessed the power of metallurgy during the fourth millennium bce. Artisans produced extraordinary copper objects while other craftsmen molded pottery and stone into complex anthropomorphic burial containers, statuettes, and ritual objects. Taken together, these artifacts reveal the first stratified culture known in the ancient Near East. Highlights of the exhibition include a selection of material from the Nahal Mishmar hoard, an unprecedented collection of copper prestige and ritual objects, organic materials from the Cave of the Warrior, and an exceptional group of ritual figurines.

Contributors include Thomas E. Levy, Daniel M. Master, Osnat Misch-Brandl, Yorke M. Rowan, Michael Sebbane, Dina Shalem, and Orit Shamir.
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