Introduction to the Special Issue

Journal of Ancient History, vol. 11, pp. 149–189

Abstract

Abstract This general introduction serves as a preface to each author’s contribution, outlining certain common standards and methods. These include the range of meanings we use for specific terms and the answers to basic yet often contested interrogatives relating to the precinct (the who, what, when, and where) and the history of polemical debates within the discipline (the why and how). By providing this background context here, oft repeated at the beginning of any study of tophet precincts, each author can instead focus on specific data and on analysis within their specialization.

Authors 3

1. Brien K. Garnand corresponding Aachen Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten

   Leiden University · Harvard University

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   Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten (NINO), Leiden University, Witte Singel 25, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands / Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East (HMANE), Harvard University , 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge , MA 02138, USA United States of America

2. Joseph A. Greene

   Harvard University

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   Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East (HMANE), Harvard University , 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge , MA 02138, USA United States of America

3. Paolo Xella

   University of Tübingen

   Affiliation as printed

   University of Tübingen – Institute of Classical Archaeology / CNR, Rome Germany