Debating Orientalization

Corinna Riva isLecturer in Mediterranean Archaeology at University College London. Her research interests cover Iron Age Italy and the 1st millennium BC in the Central Mediterranean. Since 2002, she has been co-director of the Upper Esino Valley Survey (Marche, Italy). She has published articles on Etruria, Adriatic central Italy and co-edited (with G. Bradley and E. Isayev) Ancient Italy: Regions without Boundaries (Exeter University Press, 2008). Her own book The Urbanization of Etruria (Cambridge University Press) was published in 2010. Nicholas C. Vella is Senior Lecturer in Department of Classics and Archaeology at the University of Malta. His current research interests focus on the study of connectivity in the central Mediterranean at the end of the 2nd millennium BC, and on the development of archaeological traditions in the Mediterranean in the inter-war period. He co-directs two excavation projects in Malta and is co-director of the Belgo-Maltese Malta Survey Project. He is the co-editor (with Josephine Crawley Quinn) of Identifying the Punic Mediterranean (British School at Rome, forthcoming).

• 1.Introduction Corinna Riva and Nicholas Vella 2.Orientalizing: Five Historical Questions Nicholas Purcell (St Johns College. Oxford University) 3.Approaching Ancient Orientalization via Modern Europe David Wengrow (Christ Church, Oxford University) 4.Orientalization and Prehistoric Cyprus: The Social Life of Oriental Goods A. Bernard Knapp (University of Glasgow) 5.The View from East Greece: Miletus, Samos and Ephesus Sarah P. Morris (UCLA) 6.Notes on the Phoenician Component of the Orientalizing Horizon Eric Gubel (University of Brussels) 7.On the Organization of the Phoenician Colonial System in Iberia Maria Eugenia Aubet (Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) 8.The Orientalizing Period in Etruria: Sophisticated Communities Corinna Riva 9.The Orientalizing Phenomenon: Hybridity and Material Culture in the Western Mediterranean Peter van Dommelen (University of Glasgow) 10.W(h)iter Orientalization Robin Osborne (Cambridge University)

'I highly recommend essays by Purcell, Wengrow, and Osborne, especially for those concerned with issues of cultural transformation and exchange. I also enjoyed the essays of Morris and van Dommelen. Gubel's essay caused me to reflect on how the cultures of Canaan/Israel might have contributed to and been shaped by these processes of Mediterranean interconnectivity and what impact that might have had on the religious world/s that subsequently produced the biblical and para-biblical texts.' Michael Carden, University of Queensland, The Bible and Critical Theory, Volume 4, Number 2, 2008