Beyond Babylon : art, trade, and diplomacy in the second millennium B.C.
This important volume describes the art created in the second millennium B.C. for royal palaces, temples, and tombs from Mesopotamia, Syria, and Anatolia to Cyprus, Egypt, and the Aegean
eBook, English, 2008
Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Yale University Press, New York, New Haven, 2008
Electronic books
1 online resource (xxiii, 524 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps
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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
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010