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 to an Egyptian or Egyptianizing statue.
The award is given to the best published article or paper presented at a conference by a Ph.D. candidate in Syro-Palestinian or Biblical archaeology. Parker and Arico’s paper was presented in 2011 at the annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) and at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), both in San Francisco.
Heather Dana Davis Parker is a Ph.D. candidate in Northwest Semitic languages and literatures/Hebrew Bible at Johns Hopkins University. She is currently working on her dissertation, which highlights epigraphy and paleography’s contribution to the understanding of the history of the Iron Age Levant and contributes to recent debates surrounding the rise of Levantine territorial and nation states. Ashley Fiutko Arico is a Ph.D. candidate in Egyptian art and archaeology at Johns Hopkins University. She is currently working on her dissertation, which examines Egyptian statuary excavated in the Levant.
The Sean W. Dever Prize was established in 2001 by Mrs. Norma Dever and Professor William G. Dever, in memory of their son Sean.
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 […]
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