Hi-Tech Paper Wins Dever Prize

Coauthors Heather Dana Davis Parker and Ashley Fiutko Arico, both Ph.D. candidates at Johns Hopkins University, won this year’s Sean W. Dever Memorial Prize. Their paper, “A Moabite-Inscribed Statue Fragment from Kerak: Possible Egyptian Parallels,” presents new research on a basalt fragment recovered from El-Kerak, Jordan. The fragment was examined from both epigraphical and art historical perspectives, as it bears both a Moabite inscription and artistic decoration. As part of their analysis of the fragment, the authors employed Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) techniques.a Based on the results of their study, the authors concluded that the El-Kerak fragment once belonged […]