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Director's Foreword | |
Chronology | |
Maps of the Ancient Near East | |
Introduction | p. 3 |
The Middle Bronze Age | p. 13 |
Babylon | p. 18 |
Mari | p. 27 |
Ebla | p. 34 |
The Development of Trade Routes in the Early Second Millennium B.C. | p. 42 |
Ugarit | p. 45 |
Byblos | p. 49 |
The Cedar Forest | p. 51 |
Minoan Kamares Ware in the Levant | p. 59 |
Egypt and the Levant | p. 61 |
The Tod Treasure | p. 65 |
Lapis Lazuli | p. 68 |
The Old Assyrian Merchant Colonies | p. 70 |
Central Anatolian Ivories | p. 82 |
Technical Notes on the Metropolitan Museum Ivories | p. 85 |
Texts, Trade, and Travelers | p. 95 |
Ornaments of Interaction: The Art of the Jeweler | p. 101 |
Egypt, the Levant, and the Aegean from the Hyksos Period to the Rise of the New Kingdom | p. 108 |
Tell el-Dab'a in the Nile Delta | p. 113 |
The Burial of Queen Ahhotep | p. 119 |
Painted Palaces | p. 123 |
The Wall Paintings of Thera and the Eastern Mediterranean | p. 125 |
Minoan Artists at the Court of Avaris (Tell el-Dab'a) | p. 131 |
Bull Leaping | p. 132 |
Ritual and Royal Imagery | p. 136 |
Board Games | p. 151 |
The Horse in the Ancient Near East | p. 155 |
The Late Bronze Age: Materials and Mechanisms of Trade and Cultural Exchange | p. 161 |
The Amarna Letters | p. 168 |
The Hittite Empire | p. 170 |
Shapinuwa: A Capital of the Hittite State | p. 184 |
Hattusa: Capital of the Hittite Empire | p. 186 |
Literary and Cultural Connections | p. 192 |
The Mitanni State | p. 194 |
Alalakh (Tell Atchana) | p. 197 |
Kassite Babylonia | p. 200 |
The Middle Assyrian Period | p. 206 |
Syrian Archaeological Excavations at Qatna | p. 214 |
The Royal Palace at Qatna: Power and Prestige in the Late Bronze Age | p. 219 |
Italian Archaeological Research at Qatna | p. 233 |
Ugarit in the Late Bronze Age | p. 235 |
Ugarit: Gateway to the Mediterranean | p. 236 |
New Kingdom Egypt | p. 251 |
Depictions of Foreign Emissaries in the Theban Tombs | p. 260 |
Aegean Interactions with the Near East and Egypt during the Late Bronze Age | p. 270 |
Mycenae | p. 274 |
Mycenaean Thebes | p. 279 |
The Uluburun Shipwreck and Late Bronze Age Trade | p. 289 |
Cyprus: An International Nexus of Art and Trade | p. 311 |
The Art of Exchange | p. 387 |
Ivory, Shell, and Bone | p. 406 |
Vitreous Materials | p. 419 |
Legacy | |
Bridges to Babylon: Homer, Anatolia, and the Levant | p. 435 |
The Legacy of Ivory-Working Traditions in the Early First Millennium B.C. | p. 445 |
Problems of Chronology: Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and the Syro-Levantine Region | p. 450 |
Problems of Chronology: Egypt and the Aegean | p. 453 |
Index to Figures | p. 455 |
Bibliography | p. 456 |
Index | p. 505 |
Photograph Credits | p. 524 |
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