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Domestication of Metals
The Rise of Complex Metal Industries in Anatolia
Inbunden, 2000
1868 kr
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Over the decades, Anatolian metal artifacts have been the focus of extensive scientific analysis. Now fifteen years of field work, current surveys, excavations, and analytical programs regarding transformations in metallurgy in this highly metalliferous region have enabled Aslıhan Yener in …
Cypro-Phoenician Pottery of the Iron Age
Inbunden, 2002
2512 kr
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For almost a century scholars have been perplexed by Cypro-Phoenician (or Black-on-Red) pottery. In this major study, Dr. Schreiber’s research, coupled with her own work in the field, resolves the pottery’s origin and provides a fresh assessment of the chronology of the region. Transporting …
Bene Israel
Studies in the Archaeology of Israel and the Levant during the Bronze and Iron Ages in Honour of Israel Finkelstein
Av Alexander Fantalkin, Assaf Yasur-Landau
Inbunden, 2008
2391 kr
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This collection of twelve papers, dedicated to Professor Israel Finkelstein, deals with various aspects concerning the archaeology of Israel and the Levant during the Bronze and Iron Ages. Although the area under discussion runs from southeastern Turkey (Alalakh) down to the arid zones of the Negev …
Lower Stratum Families in the Neo-Assyrian Period
Inbunden, 2007
3358 kr
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This pioneering study wrestles with the perpetual problem of the structure of the Neo-Asssyrian society. Part I of this volume surveys all 446 Lower Stratum families in the period under review (800-600 B.C.), mentioned in 177 texts, mainly legal transactions, administrative records, court …
Ancient Near Eastern Art in Context
Studies in Honor of Irene J. Winter by her Students
Inbunden, 2007
3837 kr
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Through her published works and in the classroom, Irene J. Winter has served as a mentor for the latest generation of scholars of Mesopotamian visual culture. The various contributions to this volume in her honor represent a cross section of the state of scholarship today. Topics by the twenty …
Rêves hittites
Contribution à une histoire et une anthropologie du rêve en Anatolie ancienne
Av Alice Mouton
Inbunden, 2007
2339 kr
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This volume deals with the ancient Anatolian textual evidence on dreams. The book starts with a study of the evidence from different perspectives. The second and third parts are of special interest for anthropologists and historians of religion, as they focus on the various shapes and functions …
Geschenke und Steuern, Zölle und Tribute
Antike Abgabenformen in Anspruch und Wirklichkeit
Av H. Klinkott, S. Kubisch m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
5023 kr
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This book examines modes of economic contribution in the ancient world through taxes, tribute, or so-called gifts. Specialists in the field of the ancient Near East, Egypt, classical Greece, Rome, and Israel, joined by an economic anthropologist, present a fresh evaluation of the textual and …
On Art in the Ancient Near East Volume I
Of the First Millennium BCE
Av Irene Winter
Inbunden, 2009
3989 kr
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This volume of collected essays brings together for the first time the range of Winter’s pioneering studies related to Neo-Assyrian relief sculpture and seals, Phoenician and Syrian ivory and bronze production, and inter-polity connections across the various cultures of first millennium B.C.E. from …
World's Oldest Literature
Studies in Sumerian Belles-Lettres
Inbunden, 2009
5185 kr
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Literature begins at Sumer, we may say. Given that this ancient crossroads of tin and copper produced not only bronze and the entire Bronze Age, but also by neccesity, the first system of record-keeping and the technique of writing. Scribal schools served to propogate the new technique and their …
City Besieged
Siege and Its Manifestations in the Ancient Near East
Inbunden, 2009
2150 kr
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Exploring the military, legal, social and literary aspects of ancient warfare, this study examines the multifaceted nature of the siege phenomenon in the Ancient Near East. The book is based on Akkadian and biblical (and, to lesser degree, Greek, Aramaic, Egyptian, Hittite and Ugaritic) sources as …
On Art in the Ancient Near East Volume II
From the Third Millennium BCE
Av Irene Winter
Inbunden, 2009
3989 kr
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This second volume of collected essays, complement to volume one, focuses upon the art and culture of the third millennium B.C.E. in ancient Mesopotamia. Stress is upon the ability of free-standing sculpture and public monuments not only to reflect cultural attitudes, but to affect a viewing …
El-Ahwat: A Fortified Site from the Early Iron Age Near Nahal 'Iron, Israel
Excavations 1993-2000
Av Adam Zertal
Inbunden, 2011
2996 kr
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The excavations at el-Ahwat constitute a unique and fascinating archaeological undertaking. The site is the location of a fortified city dated to the early Iron Age (ca. 1220–1150 BCE), hidden in a dense Mediterranean forest in central Israel, near the historic ’Arunah pass. Discovered in 1992 and …
Tradition and Transformation. Egypt under Roman Rule
Proceedings of the International Conference, Hildesheim, Roemer- and Pelizaeus-Museum, 3–6 July 2008
Av Katja Lembke, Martina Minas-Nerpel m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
3479 kr
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In 30 BCE, Egypt became a province of the Roman empire. Alongside unbroken traditions—especially of the indigenous Egyptian population, but also among the Greek elite—major changes and slow processes of transformation can be observed. The multi-ethnical population was situated between new patterns …
Opening the Tablet Box
Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Benjamin R. Foster
Av Sarah Melville, Alice Slotsky
Inbunden, 2010
4056 kr
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This volume is a scholarly tribute to Benjamin R. Foster, Laffan Professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature and Curator of the Babylonian Collection at Yale University, from some of his students, colleagues, and companions, in appreciation of his outstanding achievements and in thanks for …
Sons and Descendants
A Social History of Kin Groups and Family Names in the Early Neo-Babylonian Period, 747-626 B.C.
Inbunden, 2010
2928 kr
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Sons and Descendants represents the first comprehensive study of Babylonian family names. Drawing primarily on evidence from legal documents from the early Neo-Babylonian period (747-626 B.C.), the book examines the presence of large, named kin groups at the major Babylonia cities, considering …
Debate Between a Man and His Soul
A Masterpiece of Ancient Egyptian Literature
Inbunden, 2010
2928 kr
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This book is a new study of the ancient Egyptian poem known in English as The Man Who Was Tired of Life or The Dialogue of a Man and His Ba (or Soul). The composition is universally regarded as one of the masterpieces of ancient Egyptian literature. It is also one of the most difficult and …
Cultural Contact and Appropriation in the Axial-Age Mediterranean World
A Periplos
Av Baruch Halpern, Kenneth Sacks
Inbunden, 2016
2472 kr
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Karl Jaspers dubbed the period, 800-400 BCE, the Axial Age. Axial it was, for out of it emerged the idea of Greek culture, with its influence on Roman and later empires. Jaspers’ Axial Age was the chrysalis of culturally-meaningful modernity. Trade expands intellectual horizons. The economic and …
From Conquest to Coexistence
Ideology and Antiquarian Intent in the Historiography of Israel’s Settlement in Canaan
Inbunden, 2011
4564 kr
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Current research on ancient historiography concentrates on the relation between history and ideology, while the archaeology of the Southern Levant is more and more viewed as a discipline of its own. What happens when these new directions are applied to the historiography of Israel’s settlement in …
Egypt, Canaan and Israel: History, Imperialism, Ideology and Literature
Proceedings of a Conference at the University of Haifa, 3-7 May 2009
Inbunden, 2011
3157 kr
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The proceedings of the conference “Egypt, Canaan and Israel: History, Imperialism, Ideology and Literature” include the latest discussions about the political, military, cultural, economic, ideological, literary and administrative relations between Egypt, Canaan and Israel during the Second and …
Politics of Trade
Egypt and Lower Nubia in the 4th Millennium BC
Av Jane Roy
Inbunden, 2011
3128 kr
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Until recently much of the discussion regarding the A-Group has emphasised the influence of Egypt in the region. Egyptian material found in A-Group contexts has pointed to some type of exchange system between the two regions but the lack of A-Group manufactured objects in Egyptian contexts has led …
Writing Science before the Greeks
A Naturalistic Analysis of the Babylonian Astronomical Treatise MUL.APIN
Av Rita Watson, Wayne Horowitz
Inbunden, 2011
2378 kr
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The beginnings of written science have long been associated with classical Greece. Yet in ancient Mesopotamia, highly-sophisticated scientific works in cuneiform script were in active use while Greek civilization flourished in the West. The subject of this volume is the astronomical series …
Household Archaeology in Ancient Israel and Beyond
Inbunden, 2011
3828 kr
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Despite the large number of well-preserved domestic contexts in Bronze and Iron Age sites, household archaeology has not been a common approach to studying the material culture of Ancient Israel. Until recently, the dictates of “Biblical Archaeology” led to a narrow set of questions that ignored …
Life at the Bottom of Babylonian Society
Servile Laborers at Nippur in the 14th and 13th Centuries B.C.
Inbunden, 2011
2593 kr
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Life at the Bottom of Babylonian Society is a study of the population dynamics, family structure, and legal status of publicly-controlled servile workers in Kassite Babylonia. It compares some of the demographic aspects proper to this group with other intensively studied past populations, such as …
Hellenizing Art in Ancient Nubia 300 B.C. - AD 250 and its Egyptian Models
A Study in "Acculturation"
Av László Török
Inbunden, 2011
3962 kr
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Presenting a large body of evidence for the first time, this book offers a comprehensive treatment of Nubian architecture, sculpture, and minor arts in the period between 300 BC-AD 250. It focuses primarily on the Nubian response to the traditional pharaonic, Hellenistic/Roman, Hellenizing, and …
Prophecy in the Ancient Near East
A Philological and Sociological Comparison
Inbunden, 2012
2544 kr
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Since the 1990s there has been an emphasis on the study of ancient Israelite prophecy in its ancient Near East context. Prophecy in the Ancient Near East is the first book-length study that compares prophecy in the ancient Near East by focusing on texts from Mari, the Neo-Assyrian State Archives, …
Letter of Mara bar Sarapion in Context
Proceedings of the Symposium Held at Utrecht University, 10-12 December 2009
Av Annette Merz, Teun L Tieleman
Inbunden, 2012
2660 kr
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The Letter of Mara bar Sarapion to his son – preserved in a single Syriac manuscript (7th. cent. CE) – still speaks to its readers, evocatively depicting the dramatic situation of a nobleman imprisoned after the Roman capture of Samosata, capital of Commagene. The letter is best known today for a …
L’art du siège néo-assyrien
Inbunden, 2012
4134 kr
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In L'art du siège néo-assyrien, Fabrice De Backer investigates the people, materials, tools, machines, and tactics employed during the first millenium B.C. by the Neo-Assyrians to take and defend fortified cities. The story of besieged people, along with their customs, treatment by the winners, and …
Luwian Identities
Culture, Language and Religion Between Anatolia and the Aegean
Av Alice Mouton, Ian Rutherford m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
4338 kr
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The Luwians inhabited Anatolia and Syria in late second through early first millennium BC. They are mainly known through their Indo-European language, preserved on cuneiform tablets and hieroglyphic stelae. However, where the Luwians lived or came from, how they coexisted with their Hittite and …
Pottery and Economy in Old Kingdom Egypt
Inbunden, 2013
3036 kr
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In Pottery and Economy in Old Kingdom Egypt, Leslie Anne Warden investigates the economic importance of utilitarian ceramics, particularly beer jars and bread moulds, in third millennium BC Egypt. The Egyptian economy at this period is frequently presented as state-centric or state-defined. This …
Dinner at Dan
Biblical and Archaeological Evidence for Sacred Feasts at Iron Age II Tel Dan and Their Significance
Inbunden, 2013
2217 kr
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In Dinner at Dan, Jonathan S. Greer provides biblical and archaeological evidence for sacred feasting at the Levantine site of Tel Dan from the late 10th century - mid-8th century BCE. Biblical texts are argued to reflect a Yahwistic and traditional religious context for these feasts and a fresh …
