Liat Naeh
I am a scholar of the art and archaeology of the ancient Middle East, and a museum-professional. A passionate teacher, I am a Sessional Instructor II at the Department of Visual Studies at the University of Toronto, Mississauga, and was recently awarded with DVS' Teaching Award in Art History (2022/2023). In 2018, I earned a PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and in 2018-2019 held an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Bard Graduate Center, both in New York. Until 2023, I was also an active member in the international Advisory Committee for the Renewal of the Permanent Galleries of the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
My publications center on Levantine artistic practices, cult, and ideology, Levantine bone and ivory carving, and furniture; I am also the co-editor of a volume on thrones in the ancient world (2020). My PhD dissertation, titled Local Art in the Southern Levant: Middle Bronze Age Bone-Inlaid Boxes of the Geometric Family, analyzed unique bone-inlaid boxes found in southern Levantine elite tombs during the Middle Bronze Age as a case study for Egyptian-Levantine cultural connections and the development of Levantine art. During my PhD studies, I have been a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, New York, and Fribourg University, Switzerland. In 2017, my article, In Search of Identity, which revisits Iron Age Levantine ivories, won the Sean W. Dever Memorial Prize for best student paper in the field of Syro-Palestinian or biblical archaeology. Before that, my MA thesis, examining the use and manufacture of miniature vessels and seven-cupped bowls in the Middle Bronze Age cult site of Nahariya, Israel, was awarded the Polonsky Prize. During my graduate studies, I was a Curatorial Assistant at the Bronfman Wing of Archaeology at the Israel Museum and also worked in museum education and programming.
Beyond academia, I am also a published author of Hebrew poetry and short stories.
My publications center on Levantine artistic practices, cult, and ideology, Levantine bone and ivory carving, and furniture; I am also the co-editor of a volume on thrones in the ancient world (2020). My PhD dissertation, titled Local Art in the Southern Levant: Middle Bronze Age Bone-Inlaid Boxes of the Geometric Family, analyzed unique bone-inlaid boxes found in southern Levantine elite tombs during the Middle Bronze Age as a case study for Egyptian-Levantine cultural connections and the development of Levantine art. During my PhD studies, I have been a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, New York, and Fribourg University, Switzerland. In 2017, my article, In Search of Identity, which revisits Iron Age Levantine ivories, won the Sean W. Dever Memorial Prize for best student paper in the field of Syro-Palestinian or biblical archaeology. Before that, my MA thesis, examining the use and manufacture of miniature vessels and seven-cupped bowls in the Middle Bronze Age cult site of Nahariya, Israel, was awarded the Polonsky Prize. During my graduate studies, I was a Curatorial Assistant at the Bronfman Wing of Archaeology at the Israel Museum and also worked in museum education and programming.
Beyond academia, I am also a published author of Hebrew poetry and short stories.
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study specific thrones known from historical texts, artistic depictions or
excavations, or offer an overview of the role of thrones from as early as
ancient Mesopotamia in the 3rd millennium BCE to as late as Iran and China
in the 14th century CE. The volume thus collates the work of scholars who
specialise in diverse cultures and who have all found thrones to be helpful
vehicles for promoting unique inquiries into such issues as royalty, society,
ritual, and religion within their areas of expertise. The breadth of their
collective efforts offers a comparative view through which the dissemination
of political and ideological concepts may be better explored. The following
collection of articles, however, does not attempt to provide a single answer
to the question of what a throne is or is not, but instead presents the authors’
individual – and sometimes conflicting – outlooks. While the volume is far
from being a comprehensive survey of thrones in Eurasian cultures across
the ages, it nevertheless offers readers a specialised bibliography and draws
attention to scholarly trends that will be useful to future studies on thrones
in general. Most of all, the volume cohesively suggests that thrones have
been a meaningful category of material culture throughout history, one that
may inspire both inter-cultural and intra-cultural studies of the ways in which
types of chairs can embody, execute or induce notions of kingship and a
range of concepts pertaining to the religious, ideological, and social spheres.
Articles by Liat Naeh
PhD Dissertation by Liat Naeh
MA Thesis by Liat Naeh
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study specific thrones known from historical texts, artistic depictions or
excavations, or offer an overview of the role of thrones from as early as
ancient Mesopotamia in the 3rd millennium BCE to as late as Iran and China
in the 14th century CE. The volume thus collates the work of scholars who
specialise in diverse cultures and who have all found thrones to be helpful
vehicles for promoting unique inquiries into such issues as royalty, society,
ritual, and religion within their areas of expertise. The breadth of their
collective efforts offers a comparative view through which the dissemination
of political and ideological concepts may be better explored. The following
collection of articles, however, does not attempt to provide a single answer
to the question of what a throne is or is not, but instead presents the authors’
individual – and sometimes conflicting – outlooks. While the volume is far
from being a comprehensive survey of thrones in Eurasian cultures across
the ages, it nevertheless offers readers a specialised bibliography and draws
attention to scholarly trends that will be useful to future studies on thrones
in general. Most of all, the volume cohesively suggests that thrones have
been a meaningful category of material culture throughout history, one that
may inspire both inter-cultural and intra-cultural studies of the ways in which
types of chairs can embody, execute or induce notions of kingship and a
range of concepts pertaining to the religious, ideological, and social spheres.