Materiality and Animism as Agents of Iconographic Change: The Anthropomorphism of the Sycomore Goddess in Ancient Egypt

SHIRLY BEN-DOR EVIAN earned her MA (cum laude) and PhD from the Department of Archaeology and Near Eastern Cultures at Tel Aviv University. Her research focuses on the relations between Egypt and the Levant during the Bronze and Iron Ages. She has served as the curator of Egyptian Archaeology at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and joined the Department of Cultural Heritage at the University of Haifa as a senior lecturer in October 2022. (Department of Cultural Heritage and The Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies, University of Haifa; [email protected])

ESHCHAR GICHON is currently completing his MA research in archaeology at Tel Aviv University on the subject of copper production development at Timna Valley, supervised by Prof. Erez Ben-Yosef. His thesis focuses on spatial archaeological changes in the longue durée as well as technological evolution as seen through the chemical characteristics of the slag remains. (Department of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University; [email protected])