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Beyond Babylon art, trade, and diplomacy in the second millennium B.C. edited by Joan Aruz, Kim Benzel, and Jean M. Evans
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
- Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- French
- German
- Greek, Modern (1453-)
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Middle Eastern--Exhibitions.
- Art, Middle Eastern.
- Art, Ancient--Middle East--Exhibitions.
- Art, Ancient.
- Civilization.
- Middle East--Civilization--To 622--Exhibitions.
- Middle East.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 524 pages) illustrations (chiefly color), color maps
- Place of Publication:
- New York Metropolitan Museum of Art ; 2008
- New Haven Yale University Press 2008
- System Details:
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
- Contents:
- Introduction / Joan Aruz
- The Middle Bronze Age / Mogens Trolle Larsen
- Babylon / Béatrice André-Salvini
- Mari / Jean-Claude Margueron
- Ebla / Paolo Matthiae
- The development of trade routes in the early second millennium B.C. / Michel Al-Maqdissi
- Ugarit / Bassam Jamous
- Byblos / Suzy Hakimian
- The Cedar forest / Ira Spar
- Minoan Kamares ware in the Levant / Robert B. Koehl
- Egypt and the Levant / Thomas Schneider
- The Tôd Treasure / Geneviève Pierrat-Bonnefois
- Lapis Lazuli / Michèle Casanova
- The old Assyrian merchant colonies / Mogens Trolle Larsen
- Central Anatolian ivories / Joan Aruz
- Technical notes on the Metropolitan Museum ivories / Jean-François de Lapérouse
- Texts, trade, and travelers / Jack M. Sasson
- Ornaments of interaction: the art of the jeweler / Kim Benzel
- Egypt, the Levant, and the Aegean from the Hyksos period to the rise of the New Kingdom / David O'Connor
- Tell el-Dab'a in the Nile Delta / Manfred Bietak
- The burial of Queen Ahhotep / Peter Lacovara
- Painted palaces / Joan Aruz
- The wall paintings of Thera and the eastern Mediterranean / Christos G. Doumas
- Minoan artists at the Court of Avaris (Tell el-Dab'a) / Manfred Bietak
- Bull leaping / Joan Aruz
- Ritual and royal imagery / Joan Aruz
- Board games / Irving Finkel
- The horse in the ancient Near East / Kim Benzel
- The Late Bronze Age: materials and mechanisms of trade and cultural exchange / Mario Liverani
- The Amarna letters / Ira Spar
- The Hittite Empire / Andreas Müller-Karpe
- Shapinuwa: a capital of the Hittite state / Aygül Süel and Mustafa Süel
- Hattusa: capital of the Hattite Empire / Andreas Schachner
- Literary and cultural connections / Gary Beckman
- The Mitanni state / Jean M. Evans
- Alalakh (Tell Atchana) / K. Aslihan Yener
- Kassite Babylonia / Jean M. Evans
- The Middle Assyrian period / Jean M. Evans
- Syrian archaeological excavations at Qatna / Michel Al-Maqdissi
- The Royal Palace at Qatna: power and prestige in the Late Bronze Age / Peter Pfälzner
- Italian archaeological research at Qatna / Danièle Morandi Bonacossi
- Ugarit in the Late Bronze Age / Bassam Jamous
- Ugarit: gateway to the Mediterranean / Jean-Claude Margueron
- New Kingdom Egypt / Thomas Schneider
- Depictions of foreign emissaries in the Theban tombs / Sarah Graff
- Aegean interactions with the Near East and Egypt during the Late Bronze Age / Robert B. Koehl
- Mycenae / Lena Papazoglou-Manioudaki
- Mycenaean Thebes / Vasilis Aravantinos
- The Uluburun shipwreck and Late Bronze Age trade / Cemal Pulak
- Cyprus: an international nexus of art and trade / Sophie Cluzan
- The art of exchange / Joan Aruz
- Ivory, shell, and bone / Annie Caubet
- Vitreous materials / Annie Caubet
- Bridges to Babylon: Homer, Anatolia, and the Levant / Sarah P. Morris
- The legacy of ivory-working traditions in the early first millennium B.C. / Marian Feldman
- Problems of chronology: Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and the Syro-Levantine region / Glenn M. Schwartz
- Problems of chronology: Egypt and the Aegean / Eric H. Cline
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 456-504) and index
- Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
- Print version record
- Other Format:
- Print version Beyond Babylon
- OCLC:
- 609327226
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