Cultures in contact : from Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean in the second millennium B.C. / edited by Joan Aruz, Sarah Graff, and Yelena Rakic.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aruz, Joan.

Graff, Sarah B.

Rakic, Yelena

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Metropolitan Museum of Art symposia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization.

Middle East--Civilization--To 622--Congresses.

Middle East.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xvii, 354 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.

Other Title:

Beyond Babylon: art, trade and diplomacy in the second millennium B.C.

Friends of Inanna scholars' day workshop.

Place of Publication:

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

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 nto pictogram : the solarization of kingship in Syro-Anatolia and Assyria / Beate Pongratz-Leisten

Closing remarks

"Beyond Babylon" : closing remarks / Jack M. Sasson.

Notes:

"Most of the essays published in this volume were presented at "The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Symposium: Beyond Babylon: art, trade and diplomacy in the second millennium B.C." held on December 18 and 19, 2008 and "The Friends of Inanna scholars' day workshop" held on February 4, 2009 ... held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York"--T.p. verso.

"The Metropolitan Museum of Art Symposia".

Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-352).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

0300185030

9780300185034

OCLC:

810947283

Publisher Number:

99954822510