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Proceedings of the International Conference Egypt and Cyprus in Antiquity, Nicosia, 3-6 April 2003 / edited by D. Michaelides, V. Kassianidou, and R.S. Merrillees.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Author/Creator:
- International Conference "Egypt and Cyprus in Antiquity", Corporate Author.
- Conference Name:
- International Conference "Egypt and Cyprus in Antiquity" (2003 : Nicosia, Cyprus), author.
- International Conference "Egypt and Cyprus in Antiquity"
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Material culture--Cyprus--History--Congresses.
- Material culture.
- Material culture--Egypt--History--Congresses.
- Nile River Valley--Relations--Cyprus--Congresses.
- Nile River Valley.
- Egypt--Relations--Cyprus--Congresses.
- Egypt.
- Cyprus--Relations--Nile River Valley--Congresses.
- Cyprus.
- Cyprus--Relations--Egypt--Congresses.
- Egypt--Civilization--Congresses.
- Cyprus--Antiquities--Congresses.
- Cyprus--Civilization--Congresses.
- Egypt--Antiquities--Congresses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (894 p.)
- Other Title:
- Egypt and Cyprus in Antiquity
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; Oakville : Oxbow Books, [2009]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The international conference ""Egypt and Cyprus in Antiquity"" held in Nicosia in April 2003 filled an important gap in historical knowledge about Cyprus' relations with its neighbours. While the island's links with the Aegean and the Levant have been well documented and continue to be the subject of much archaeological attention, the exchanges between Cyprus and the Nile Valley are not as well known and have not before been comprehensively reviewed. They range in date from the mid third millennium B.C. to Late Antiquity and encompass every kind of interconnection, including political union. T
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Bronze Age / edited by R.S. Merrillees and V. Kassianidou
- Alas(h)i(y)a (Irs) and Asiya (Isy) in ancient Egyptian sources / Kenneth A. Kitchen
- Peuples, états, et cités : enquête sur la cartographie géopolitique égyptienne / Nicolas Grimal
- The stone vases of the Philia culture from Vasilia : Cypriote, Egyptian, or other? / Robert S. Merrillees
- A contribution from Tell el-Dab'a/'Ezbet Helmi to the Cyprus connection at the turn of middle Bronze Age to late Bronze Age / Irmgard Hein
- Embracing the new : the perception of Cypriot pottery in Egypt / Linda Hulin
- "May he send me silver in very great quantities" / Vasiliki Kassianidou
- pt. 2. Iron Age / edited by V. Kassianidou
- The relations between Egypt and Cyprus from Neo-Assyrian to Achaemenid rule (7th-6th cent. B.C.) / Andreas Mehl
- The relations of Egyptian iconography and symbolism with the royal ideology of Cypriot city kingdoms / Pavlos Flourentzos
- L'Égypte, Chypre et la route de Péluse à Gaza : approche micro-régionale des politiques stratégiques des derniers souverains égyptiens et achéménides (610-332 av. J.C.) / Claire Balandier
- Divinités égyptiennes à Chypre à l'époque archaïque / Sabine Fourrier
- From Siwa to Cyprus : the assimilation of Zeus Ammon in the Cypriote pantheon / Derek B. Counts
- Le baal d'Amathonte et le bès égyptien / Isabelle Tassignon
- Representations of Cypriote scribes and carriers of written documents : a link with Egypt? / Frieda Vandenabeele
- pt. 3. Classical and later periods / edited by D. Michaelides
- Un Apollon Chypriote aux boucles "Libyques" / Antoine Hermary
- Fusion and diffusion : Isiac cults in Ptolemaic and Roman Cyprus / Aristodemos Anastasiades
- Ptolemaic art and the legitimation of power / Emilia Dina Vassiliou
- Les relations culturelles entre l'Égypte et Chypre : la céramique d'Alexandrie et de Paphos / Pascale Ballet
- Modèles alexandrins? Apport des fouilles et prospections récentes dans la nécropole occidentale d'Alexandrie à la connaissance de l'architecture funéraire hellénistique et impériale / Marie-Dominique Nenna
- Twilight of the Ptolemies : Egyptian presence on late Hellenistic Yeronisos / Joan Breton Connelly
- Sailors and artisans : the Egyptian connections of ceramic finds from Yeronisos / Jolanta Młynarczyk
- Alexandrian influences on the architecture and decoration of the Hellenistic tombs of Cyprus / Anne-Marie Guimier-Sorbets and Demetrios Michaelides
- Alexandrian elements in Cypriot burial customs of the Hellenistic and Roman periods / Danielle A. Parks
- La contribution des conteneurs commerciaux à l'histoire des échanges entre Chypre et l'Égypte de l'èpoque archaïque à l'èpoque romaine tardive / Antigone Marangou et Sylvie Marchand
- The Nile flows underground to Cyprus : the painted water-cistern at Salamis reconsidered / Helen Whitehouse.
- Notes:
- Conference organised by the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (CAARI) and the Archaeolgical Research Unit, University of Cyprus.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-78297-303-6
- 1-78297-301-X
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