Facial Decorations under the Microscope: Decentering Sex and Gender in Phoenician-Punic Coroplastic Art

This paper focuses on a selection of Phoenician-Punic artifacts from the western Mediterranean dating from the 7th to 2nd centuries b.c. It examines some examples of coroplastic art (musician figurines, masks, and protomae) and ostrich eggshells bearing facial decorations, and discusses the differen...

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Authors: López-Bertran, Mireia (Author) ; Garcia-Ventura, Agnès 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Chicago Press 2023
In: Bulletin of ASOR
Year: 2023, Volume: 390, Pages: 113-128
Further subjects:B Carthage
B Phoenician-Punic
B Gender
B Intersectionality
B Iron Age Mediterranean
B coroplastic artworks
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Summary:This paper focuses on a selection of Phoenician-Punic artifacts from the western Mediterranean dating from the 7th to 2nd centuries b.c. It examines some examples of coroplastic art (musician figurines, masks, and protomae) and ostrich eggshells bearing facial decorations, and discusses the different ways in which these decorative motifs have been interpreted in modern scholarship and highlights the centrality of sex and gender in most of these traditional conceptions. It also briefly presents some theoretical insights and shows how, if we decenter sex and gender and instead apply an intersectional approach to the analysis of these materials, some alternative interpretations may emerge.
ISSN:2769-3589
Contains:Enthalten in: Bulletin of ASOR
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1086/727054