Squitieri, Stone Vessels in the Near East during the Iron Age and the Persian Period

BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: Stone Vessels in the Near East during the Iron Age and the Persian Period. Notice of a new book: Squitieri, Andrea. 2017. Stone Vessels in the Near East during the Iron Age and the Persian Period. (Archaeopress Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology 2). Oxford: Archaeopress.

Stone vessels were important for Jews in the late Second Temple period, because such vessels did not transmit ritual impurity. This is not my expertise, but the ones I have heard of date to the Hasmonean and Roman periods, so that may be why Judean stoen vessels are not mentioned in the description of this book. Still, it would provide useful background on the production of such objects.

For some background on stone vessels in the Roman world and ancient Judaism, see here and here and links.

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