Cultures in contact : from Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean in the second millennium B.C. /

Cultures in contact : from Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean in the second millennium B.C. /

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Other Authors: Aruz, Joan, Graff, Sarah B., Rakic, Yelena.

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Language: English

Published: New York : New Haven, Conn. : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; distributed by Yale University Press, 2013.

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Middle East > Civilization > To 622 > Congresses.

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Call Number: N5345 .C85 2013

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Table of Contents:
  • The first international age
  • An Amorite global village : Syrian-Mesopotamian relations in the second millennium B.C. /
  • Glenn M. Schwartz
  • Actual imports or just ideas? Investigations in Anatolia and the Caucasus /
  • Karen S. Rubinson
  • Aegean
  • Near East relations in the second millennium B.C. /
  • Eric H. Cline
  • Contacts : Crete, Egypt, and the Near East circa 2000 B.C. /
  • Malcolm H. Wiener
  • Maritime trade
  • Seafaring in ancient Egypt : cedar ships, incense, and long-distance voyaging /
  • Cheryl Ward
  • International exchange during the late second millennium B.C. : microarchaeological study of finds from the Uluburun ship /
  • Yuval Goren
  • Cape Gelidonya redux /
  • George F. Bass
  • Interpreting the archaeological evidence
  • From Tell Sianu to Qatna : some common features of inland Syrian and Levantine cities in the second millennium B.C. /
  • Michel Al-Maqdissi
  • When were the Hurrians Hurrian? The persistence of ethnicity in Urkesh /
  • Giorgio Buccellati
  • Ebla : recent excavation results and the continuity of Syrian art /
  • Paolo Matthiae
  • The elephant hunters of Bronze Age Syria /
  • Peter Pfälzner
  • Tracing Sidon's Mediterranean networks in the second millennium B.C. : receiving, transmitting, and assimilating : twelve years of British museum excavations /
  • Claude Doumet-Serhal
  • Recent excavations at Alalakh : throne embellishments in Middle Bronze Age level VII /
  • K. Aslıhan Yener
  • Art and interaction : wall paintings
  • The procession of "Asiatics" at Beni Hasan /
  • Janice Kamrin
  • The Near Eastern contribution to Aegean wall painting and vice versa /
  • Robert B. Koehl
  • Akrotiri, Thera : reflections from the East /
  • Christos G. Doumas
  • The impact of Minoan art on Egypt and the Levant : a glimpse of palatial art from the naval base of Peru-nefer at Avaris /
  • Manfred Bietak
  • The Qatna wall paintings and the formation of Aegeo-Syrian art /
  • Peter Pfälzner
  • Art and interaction : furnishings and adornment
  • Seals and the imagery of interaction /
  • Joan Aruz
  • Of banquets, horses, and women in Late Bronze Age Ugarit /
  • Annie Caubet
  • Bibru and Rhyton : zoomorphic vessels in the Near East and Aegean /
  • Robert B. Koehl
  • The art of ivory carving in the second millennium B.C. /
  • Marian H. Feldman
  • Ornaments of interaction : jewelry in the Late Bronze Age /
  • Kim Benzel
  • Remarks on internationalism : the non-textual data /
  • Christine Lilyquist
  • Literary evidence for interaction
  • Beyond Babylonian literature /
  • Marc Van De Mieroop
  • Under the spell of Babylon : Mesopotamian influence on the religion of the Hittites /
  • Gary Beckman
  • From pictograph to pictogram : the solarization of kingship in Syro-Anatolia and Assyria /
  • Beate Pongratz-Leisten
  • Closing remarks
  • "Beyond Babylon" : closing remarks /
  • Jack M. Sasson.