Migration and Mobility in the Ancient Near East and Egypt - the Crossroads IV

Jana Mynářováis professor of history and cultures of Asia and Africa and director of the Institute of Ancient Newar Eastern Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University Prague specialising in Assyriology and Egyptology.Ludovica Bertolini is assistant professor in the the Institute of Ancient Newar Eastern Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University Prague.Federico Zangani is a Renfrew Fellow in the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge and a Junior Research Fellow at Homerton College, University of Cambridge, specialising in Egyptology.

• Preface              About the Contributors Abbreviations  Part 1. PoliticsAaron A. Burke: Creating Crisis: Empire and Refugees at the End of the Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean Andrew Burlingame: “To the King, My Master”: Epistolary Evidence for Ugaritian Agents AbroadYoram Cohen and Eduardo Torrecilla: Shepherds, Armies, and Prisoners of War in Late Bronze Age Hittite Syria              Susan Cohen: Mobility of Boundaries in the Middle Bronze Age Southern Levant         Steven Garfinkle: Mobile Patronage: Amorite Spatial and Social Mobility under the Third Dynasty of UrJacob Lauinger: Movements of Persons and Populations at Middle and Late Bronze Age AlalakhEllen Morris: How to Tell “Moving” Tales of Female Captivity in the Ancient World  Jana Mynářová: Crossing Borders, Reaching Limits: Boundaries in the Late Bronze Age LevantSeth Richardson: First Causes, Individual Focus: Displacement and Inequality, Babylon, Seventeenth Century BCEPart 2. Ideas, Concepts, and LanguagesLudovica Bertolini: Crossing Life Stages: Dressing, Undressing, and Changing Clothes as Navigating through LifePaul Delnero: Going to Heaven, Hell, and Egypt: Mesopotamian Myths and Scribal Training at Amarna        Federico Giusfredi: Was Hurrian Spoken in Central Anatolia during the Middle Bronze Age and the Early Age of Hatti?Anne Goddeeris: Ceci n’est pas un kudurru: Or How Adad-ēṭir Climbs the Social Ladder              Adam E. Miglio: Uta-napišti’s Reconnaissance-Birds as Celestial Signs and the Transmission of Antediluvian Knowledge          Kevin McGeough: Migration, Mobility, Diffusion, Social Evolution, and Culture History: How Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Archaeological Theory Has Impacted Our Vision of the Bronze Age            Part 3. Materiality and AdministrationJacob C. Damm: Pottery as Practice: Multilevel Social Analyses of Egyptian-style Ceramics in the Late Bronze Age Southern Levant        Ann-Kathrin Jeske: The Expansion of the Egyptian Administrative-Economic System in the Southern Levant: A Comparison of the Proto- and Early Dynastic Period (Late EB IB) and the Eighteenth Dynasty (LB I to IIA)              Marie-Kristin Schröder: Migration and Mobility in the Archaeological Record of the “C-Group” Culture between Egypt and Kerma       Sandra Veprauskienė: The Establishment of the Western Frontier: A Study of the Middle Kingdom Enactment Practices in Dakhla Oasis             Index of Names

Two sets of summaries are provided for each contribution and there is an index of ancient names. The illustrations are excellent. Close reading of the material under scrutiny here has brought to light a range of nuances that may also be relevant for borders, frontiers and exiles elsewhere in the ancient Near East. Wilfred G.E. Watson, SOTS 2025 book list