Alalakh and its neighbours : proceedings of the 15th Anniversary Symposium at the New Hatay Archaeology Museum, 10-12 June 2015 /
edited by K. Aslihan Yener and Tara Ingman.
- vii, 481 pages : illustrations (partly color), maps (partly color) ; 31 cm.
- Ancient Near Eastern studies. Supplement ; 55 .
- Ancient Near Eastern studies. Supplement 55. .
Conference proceedings.
Includes bibliographicals references.
Alalakh in the past, Archana in the present : situating site and city / Making use of the past : the possibilities of archaeological archives / Linguistics and political borders in the period of the Ebla Archives / The hieroglypic Luwian inscriptions of the Amuq / the jurisdiction of legal transactions at the middle Bronze Age Alalah / the ostentations use of Obsidian in Bronze Age Mesopotamia, Anatolia and the Northern Levant / A glass production centre in Central Anatolia? : Büklükale in relation to Alalakh / dr Kimiyoshi Matsumura -- Carnelian agate, amber and other gemstones : production and exchange in late Bronze Age Alalakh / Symbolic messaging and incised dsigns on bronze : a cache of midde-late Bronze I weapns from Alalakh / Alalakh and the Aegean : five centuries of shifting but enduring contacts / 12th Century BC painted pottery at Alalakh : local development and foreign contact / Drinking in Iron Age Atchana / Oylum Höyük and Alalakh : cultural relations in the Second Millennium BC / The sacred mountain of Ugarit and Alalaḫ? : Mount Kasion and related issues / The dawn and demise of imperial impact : Tell Atchana vs. Arslantepe in the framework of the Hittite expansion and dissolution / Tell Afis and its plain : a route to the Amuq and the Mediterranean / The two sides of the Amanus : Cilicia and the Amuq : a comparative chronology / Mortuary practices and GIS modelling at Tell Atchana, Alalakh / Speiss'ing things up : iron arsenide in a secondary production context at Tell Atchana / A general outlook on the connections between Alalakh and Cyprus in the middel and late Bronze Ages : textual, archaeological and archaeometric studies / Come and hear my story : the 'well-lady' of Alalakh / Chemical characterisation of Mycenaean pottery from Alalakh via ICP-MS / Fifteen years of renewed research at Tell Atchana : some final thoughts / K. Ashhan Yener, Murat Akar, Tara Ingman -- Hélène Maloigne -- Alfonso Archi -- David Hawkins -- Jacob Lauinger -- Elizabeth Healey -- Magda Pieniążek -- Reconsidering the Alalakh frescoes within their Levantine context / Constance von Ruden -- K. Ashhan Yener -- Robert B. Koehl -- Mariacarmela Montesanto -- Marina Pucci -- Atilla Engin -- John Healey -- Federico Manuelli -- Stefania Mazzoni -- Deniz Yașin -- Tara Ingman -- Michael Johnson -- Ekin Kozal, Sinem Haciosmanoğlu, Mustafa Kibaroğlu, Gürsel Sunal -- Rula Shafiq -- Sıla Mangaloğlu -Vortruba, Cansu Yildirm Geoffrey Summers. [I]. Textual records. [II]. Comparative material culture. [III]. Ceranic study. [IV]. Alalakh and its neighbours. [V]. scientific investigation at Alalakh. [VI]. Summary.
"This volume, Alalakh and its Neighbours, represents the results of the symposium held in honour of the fifteenth anniversary of renewed excavations at Tell Atchana (Alalakh). It brings together results of ongoing interdisciplinary research projects conducted by the large and diverse Tell Atchana team with reflections on Alalakh's connections to its wider social and geographical setting as discussed in the contributions of scholars working at nearby sites in Anatolia, Syria, and the Aegean. The papers here look both inward towards resolving lingering questions from Sir Leonard Woolley's original excavations at the site, as well as new questions that have come up in the renewed excavations concerning life at Alalakh, and outward toward the city's place in a regional context. Covering chronological issues, textual evidence, scientific analyses, and a wide range of material culture (including especially ceramics, metals, stone, and glass), this volume encompasses the recent results of work at this important second millennium BC site"--