Abstract
ABSTRACT This article contests the interpretation of the two volute capitals discovered at Hazor in the late 1950s put forward by Kleiman (online 2021; print 2022), who viewed these monumental artworks in their secondary depositional location as silent testimony for a political shift experienced by the city in the Iron Age IIB. Unearthed in secondary use in Stratum VII and originally belonging in an earlier, 9th-century bce, context of Stratum VIII, a re-evaluation of the peculiar findspot of these two volute capitals is called for. When analysed against the broader background of Strata VIII–VII and considered in the light of recent studies on the iconography of the volute motif, an adequate reconstruction of their deposition history emerges. This sheds fresh light upon their symbolic significance and bears implications for the political status of Hazor Stratum VIII.
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