Ruth Amiran

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Ruth Amiran , née Brandstetter , (born December 8, 1914 in Javne'el , † December 14, 2005 in Jerusalem ) was an Israeli archaeologist.

Life

Ruth Amiran was born in the Moshava Javne'el in Galilee . Her father Yehezkel Brandshteter emigrated in 1908 from Tarnów, Poland ( Galicia ) to Galilee, where he married her mother Devora in 1913. She later attended school in Haifa . Ruth Amiran was one of the first women to study archeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1933. She received her degree there in 1939 with her treatise The Pottery of Grar by Tell Jemmeh . She later worked at the University's Department of Archeology and also in the Department of Antiquities at the Palestine Archaeological Museum . Ruth Amiran a. a. at excavations in Tell Gerisa under Eleazar Sukenik and in Jaffa under Philip Langstaffe Ord Guy . Later she dug in Hazor under Jigael Jadin . Their most important excavation site, however, was Tel Arad together with Yohanan Aharoni . Particular attention was paid to research into the early Bronze Age settlement. Amiran's book on Ancient Pottery of the Holy Land (1963) is still one of the standard works in the field more than 40 years after its publication. In 1982 Ruth Amiran received the Israel Prize .

Her husband David Amiran (1910–2003), a geographer, received the 1977 Israel Prize for his geographic studies.

Ruth Amiran died on December 14, 2005 in Jerusalem at the age of 91.

Publications (selection)

  • The Ancient Pottery of Eretz Yisrael from its Beginnings in the Neolithic Period to the End of the First Temple. Jerusalem, Bialik Institute / Israel Exploration Society 1963.
  • Early Arad 1: The Chalcolitic Settlement and Early Bronze City. First-fifth Seasons of Excavations 1962-1966. Jerusalem, Israel Exploration Society 1978.
  • Early Arad 2: The Chalcolitic Settlement and Early Bronze IB Settlements and the Early Bronze II City. Sixth to Eighteenth Seasons of Excavations 1971-1978, 1980-1984. Together with Ornit Ilan. Jerusalem, Israel Exploration Society 1996. ISBN 965-221-031-5
  • Arad. A 5000 year old city in the Negev desert, Israel. An exhibition by the Israel Museum in Jerusalem in collaboration with the Hamburg Museum for Archeology and the History of Harburg - Helms Museum. With a contribution by Wolfgang Helck . Edited by Ralf Busch . Neumünster, Wachholtz 1992.

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SURNAME Amiran, Ruth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brandstetter-Kallner, Ruth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Javne'el
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 2005
Place of death Jerusalem