{"id":1809,"date":"2016-11-02T11:20:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T09:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/?p=1809"},"modified":"2021-10-19T15:37:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T12:37:20","slug":"find-of-the-month-figurine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/2016\/11\/02\/find-of-the-month-figurine\/","title":{"rendered":"Find of the Month: Figurine Fragment &#8211; Or &amp; Naya Korshaya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">This October, sisters Or and Naya Korshaya found the leg of a figurine, most likely of a horse. Though they are from Jerusalem, it was their first time at the Sifting Project. Finding something so special was a great way to spend the day and it sparked an interest in archaeology!<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1809 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/2016\/11\/02\/find-of-the-month-figurine\/20161018_124923\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" src=\"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/20161018_1249231-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1813\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/20161018_1249231-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/20161018_1249231-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 80px) 100vw, 80px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1813'>\n\t\t\t\tOr and Naya Korshaya\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/2016\/11\/02\/find-of-the-month-figurine\/20161018_124929\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" src=\"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/20161018_1249291-e1576089252170-80x80.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/20161018_1249291-e1576089252170-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/20161018_1249291-e1576089252170-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/20161018_1249291-e1576089252170-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/20161018_1249291-e1576089252170-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/20161018_1249291-e1576089252170-450x450.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 80px) 100vw, 80px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1815'>\n\t\t\t\tanimal leg found by the Korshaya sisters\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Most of the figurines found by the Sifting Project are from the Iron II period (8<sup>th<\/sup>-6<sup>th<\/sup> centuries BCE) and may be related to cultic activities. Our expert, <a href=\"\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/2016\/06\/09\/it-figures-tmsp-staff-are-experts-in-their-field\/\">Aaron Greener<\/a>, is researching these figurines, which provide an important addition to the thousands of similar figurines found in Judahite sites from that time period.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Sifting Project does not have any completely intact figurines, but rather small broken pieces, most broken in antiquity. We have a number of female pillar figurines and a variety of four legged animals. Most of these are horses and some of them have riders. It would be interesting to know if the leg found by the Korshaya sisters was from a horse with a rider, but because we only have the bottom of the leg, we can&#8217;t see the leg of a rider if there were one.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1819\" style=\"width: 3882px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1819\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1819\" src=\"\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/dsc_1111-copy.jpg\" alt=\"dsc_1111-copy\" width=\"3872\" height=\"2250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/dsc_1111-copy.jpg 3872w, https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/dsc_1111-copy-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/dsc_1111-copy-768x446.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/dsc_1111-copy-1024x595.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3872px) 100vw, 3872px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1819\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Other fragments of figurines found by the Sifting Project<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Because of their fragmented condition, some scholars have related the broken figurines of the Iron Age Judahite sites to the biblical account of Hezekiah\u2019s or Josiah\u2019s religious reforms. According to the Bible, symbols of idol worship were systematically destroyed and abolished.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Aaron will be presenting his research at the Annual Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies Conference in January and will be published in the first volume of our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.half-shekel.org\">planned publication<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Thank you so much to the Korshaya family for volunteering with us and finding something so valuable to Israeli archaeology and our understanding of the Temple Mount.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two sisters found the leg of an Iron Age figurine at the Temple Mount Sifting Project. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":9733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21],"tags":[25,117,118,152,159],"class_list":["post-1809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finds","category-visitors","tag-aaron-greener","tag-figurines","tag-find-of-the-month","tag-horse","tag-iron-age"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/figurine-fragment-or-Naya-Korshaya-440.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1809"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9734,"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions\/9734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}