Docent Jim Kohn, FAMSF
Masters of Fire: The Copper Age in the Holy Land 

Masters of Fire focuses on the people of the southern Levant who harnessed the power of metallurgy during the fourth millennium BCE. Artisans produced extraordinary copper objects while other craftsmen molded pottery and stone into complex anthropomorphic burial containers, statuettes, and ritual objects. Taken together, these artifacts reveal the first stratified culture known in the ancient Near East. Highlights include a selection of material from the Nahal Mishmar hoard, an unprecedented collection of copper prestige and ritual objects, organic materials from the Cave of the Warrior, and an exceptional group of ritual figurines. Exhibit at the Legion of Honor museum June 28, 2014 – January 4, 2015
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Web Site: http://www.famsf.org