Migration and mobility in the ancient Near East and Egypt
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About the Contributors Abbreviations Part 1. PoliticsAaron A. Burke: Creating Crisis: Empire and Refugees at the End of the Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean Andrew Burlingame: “To the King, My Master”: Epistolary Evidence for Ugaritian Agents AbroadYoram Cohen and Eduardo Torrecilla: Shepherds, Armies, and Prisoners of War in Late Bronze Age Hittite Syria Susan Cohen: Mobility of Boundaries in the Middle Bronze Age Southern Levant Steven Garfinkle: Mobile Patronage: Amorite Spatial and Social Mobility under the Third Dynasty of UrJacob Lauinger: Movements of Persons and Populations at Middle and Late Bronze Age AlalakhEllen Morris: How to Tell “Moving” Tales of Female Captivity in the Ancient World Jana Mynářová: Crossing Borders, Reaching Limits: Boundaries in the Late Bronze Age LevantSeth Richardson: First Causes, Individual Focus: Displacement and Inequality, Babylon, Seventeenth Century BCEPart 2. Ideas, Concepts, and LanguagesLudovica Bertolini: Crossing Life Stages: Dressing, Undressing, and Changing Clothes as Navigating through LifePaul Delnero: Going to Heaven, Hell, and Egypt: Mesopotamian Myths and Scribal Training at Amarna Federico Giusfredi: Was Hurrian Spoken in Central Anatolia during the Middle Bronze Age and the Early Age of Hatti?Anne Goddeeris: Ceci n’est pas un kudurru: Or How Adad-ēṭir Climbs the Social Ladder Adam E. Miglio: Uta-napišti’s Reconnaissance-Birds as Celestial Signs and the Transmission of Antediluvian Knowledge Kevin McGeough: Migration, Mobility, Diffusion, Social Evolution, and Culture History: How Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Archaeological Theory Has Impacted Our Vision of the Bronze Age Part 3. Materiality and AdministrationJacob C. Damm: Pottery as Practice: Multilevel Social Analyses of Egyptian-style Ceramics in the Late Bronze Age Southern Levant Ann-Kathrin Jeske: The Expansion of the Egyptian Administrative-Economic System in the Southern Levant: A Comparison of the Proto- and Early Dynastic Period (Late EB IB) and the Eighteenth Dynasty (LB I to IIA) Marie-Kristin Schröder: Migration and Mobility in the Archaeological Record of the “C-Group” Culture between Egypt and Kerma Sandra Veprauskienė: The Establishment of the Western Frontier: A Study of the Middle Kingdom Enactment Practices in Dakhla Oasis
Rich and great : studies in honour of Anthony J. Spalinger on the occasion of his 70th Feast of Thoth /
: Festschrift for Professor Anthony Spalinger, University of Auckland Departement of classics and Ancient History one chapter in accompanying booklet. : 346, xi pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 28 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9788073086688
Egypt and the Near East - the crossroads : proceedings of an international conference on the relations of Egypt and the Near East in the Bronze Age, Prague, September 1-3, 2010 /
: 343, [1] pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm. : Includes bibliographical references, abstracts, author biographies, and index. : 9788073083625
Aramaean borders : defining Aramaean territories in the 10th-8th centuries BCE /
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This book is devoted to the analysis of borders of the Aramaean polities and territories during the 10th-8th centuries B.C.E. Specialists dealing with various types of documents (Neo-Assyrian, Aramaic, Phoenician, Neo-Hittite and Hebrew texts), invited by Jan Dušek and Jana Mynářová, addressed the topic of the borders of the Aramaean territories in the context of the history of three geographical areas during the first three centuries of the 1st millennium B.C.E.: northern Mesopotamia and the Assyrian space, northern Levant, and southern Levant. The book is particularly relevant to those interested in the history and historical geography of the Levant during the Iron Age.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004398535
Hrozný and Hittite : the first hundred years : proceedings of the International Conference held at Charles University, Prague, 11-14 November 2015 /
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This volume collects 33 papers that were presented at the international conference held at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in November 2015 to celebrate the centenary of Bedřich Hrozný's identification of Hittite as an Indo-European language. Contributions are grouped into three sections, "Hrozný and His Discoveries," "Hittite and Indo-European," and "The Hittites and Their Neighbors," and span the full range of Hittite studies and related disciplines, from Anatolian and Indo-European linguistics and cuneiform philology to Ancient Near Eastern archaeology, history, and religion. The authors hail from 15 countries and include leading figures as well as emerging scholars in the fields of Hittitology, Indo-European, and Ancient Near Eastern studies.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004413122
My things changed things : social development and cultural exchange in prehistory, antiquity, and the Middle Ages /
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Collection of essays written in honor of Petr Charvát (b. 1949, Prague).
OCLC 829059734 :
262 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9788073082796