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

Object Details

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".

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

Summary

In conjunction with the 2008-9 exhibition Beyond Babylon: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C. at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a series of lectures brought together major international scholars in a variety of fields concerned with the worlds of the Near East and the eastern Mediterranean in the middle and late Bronze Ages. Interconnections among these rich and complex civilizations extending from Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean were developed in detail, ranging from reports of new archaeological discoveries and insightful art historical interpretations of material culture, to innovative investigations of literary, historical, and political aspects of interactions among these great powers. This symposium volume, containing twenty-six essays, is an ideal companion to the exhibition catalogue, providing compelling overviews of the ancient Near Eastern and eastern Mediterranean cultures during this period that are both broad and deep in their range.

Data Source

Smithsonian Libraries

Date

2013

To 622

editor of compliation

Aruz, Joan

Graff, Sarah B

Rakic, Yelena

Type

Books

Congresses

Physical description

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

Place

Middle East

Topic

Civilization

Record ID

siris_sil_1015727

Usage

CC0