@article{9858c2c9e8a44c718322ed36be75209c,
title = "Shipwreck or Sunken Votives? The Shavei Zion Assemblage Revisited",
abstract = "The site of Shavei Zion is an enigmatic deposit of hundreds of figurines and ceramic vessels found on the sunken kurkar ridge off the coast of the western Galilee. Despite its importance to the understanding of both maritime activities and cultic practices, the site has never been fully published. Only a part of the figurine assemblage has been analysed in the past, and the associated ceramic evidence has only been presented in limited preliminary reports. This article presents for the first time the evaluation of the entire ceramic assemblage extracted from the Shavei Zion underwater site, as part of a comprehensive publication project.",
keywords = "Late Iron Age, Persian Period, Shavei Zion, figurines, ritual, votive",
author = "Meir Edrey and Adi Erlich and Assaf Yasur-Landau",
note = "Funding Information: The authors would like to extend their gratitude to P. Harel, the Hecht Museum, D. Shovkun, O. Cohen, and R. Hillel, the National Maritime Museum, A. Savariego and D. Ben‐Ami, the National Treasures Department, Israel Antiquities Authority, T. Weiss, R. Kaftory, and S. Haad for their gracious assistance in the preparation of this paper. We would also like to thank the many members of the University of Haifa; J. J. Gottlieb, the Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies, T. Sokolsky, the Laboratory for Coastal Archaeology and Underwater Survey, J. Kettenring and S. Shalev, Archaeomaterials Analytical Laboratory, N. Marom, Department of Maritime Civilizations, R. Shafir, and especially E. Galili for his immeasurable help in locating much of the ceramic material, Zinman Institute of Archaeology, for their various contributions to this project. Lastly, we would like to express our thanks to the Haifa Center for Mediterranean History (HCMH) and its co‐directors G. Gambash and Z. Shalev, for funding this study. We are grateful to them all. Funding Information: The authors would like to extend their gratitude to P. Harel, the Hecht Museum, D. Shovkun, O. Cohen, and R. Hillel, the National Maritime Museum, A. Savariego and D. Ben-Ami, the National Treasures Department, Israel Antiquities Authority, T. Weiss, R. Kaftory, and S. Haad for their gracious assistance in the preparation of this paper. We would also like to thank the many members of the University of Haifa; J. J. Gottlieb, the Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies, T. Sokolsky, the Laboratory for Coastal Archaeology and Underwater Survey, J. Kettenring and S. Shalev, Archaeomaterials Analytical Laboratory, N. Marom, Department of Maritime Civilizations, R. Shafir, and especially E. Galili for his immeasurable help in locating much of the ceramic material, Zinman Institute of Archaeology, for their various contributions to this project. Lastly, we would like to express our thanks to the Haifa Center for Mediterranean History (HCMH) and its co-directors G. Gambash and Z. Shalev, for funding this study. We are grateful to them all. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 The Authors. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology {\textcopyright} 2020 The Nautical Archaeology Society.",
year = "2020",
month = sep,
day = "1",
doi = "https://doi.org/10.1111/1095-9270.12419",
language = "American English",
volume = "49",
pages = "249--262",
journal = "International Journal of Nautical Archaeology",
issn = "1057-2414",
publisher = "Taylor and Francis Ltd.",
number = "2",
}