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TOP PAPERS FROM YOUR NEWSFEED Jan Dietrich Bookmarked by Ellen Morris Coping with Disasters in Antiquity and the Bible: Practical and Mental Strategies, in: F. Riede (ed.), Past Vulnerability: volcanic eruptions and human vulnerability in traditional societies past and present, Aarhus 2015, 151-167 Download Bookmark Deborah Vischak Bookmarked by Miroslav Barta Agency in Old Kingdom elite tomb programs: traditions, locations, and variable meanings Download Bookmark Jan Bremmer Bookmarked by Ellen Morris Atheism in Antiquity Download Bookmark Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia Bookmarked by Ellen Morris "Ḥwt jḥ(w)t, the administration of the Western Delta and the 'Libyan question' in the third millennium BC", The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 101 (2015), 25-61. Third millennium Ḥwt jḥ(w)t is a locality that stands apart from other Lower Egyptian sites. Its unique archaeological and epigraphic record provides an invaluable view of the role played by a Delta centre within the administrative and productive organisation of the kingdom in the third millennium BC. It thus appears that Ḥwt jḥ(w)t was a kind of checkpoint regulating access to grazing land and plant resources in the underpopulated Western Delta. Furthermore, this was a region where Libyan populations historically settled and exploited its pasture land. Finally, traces of exchange networks... Download Bookmark Davide Nadali Bookmarked by Ellen Morris Alessandro Di Ludovico, Davide Nadali, Andrea Polcaro, Marco Ramazzotti, 2016, From Monument to Urban Complex: The City of Ebla as Symbol of Royal Ideology Download Bookmark Graciela Gestoso Singer Bookmarked by Ellen Morris Fortunes and Misfortunes of Messengers and Merchants in the Amarna Letters. In: O. Drewnowska- M. Sandowicz (eds.). 2017. Fortune and Misfortune in the Ancient Near East. Proceedings of the 60th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Warsaw 21–25 July 2014. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, pp. 143-164. The Amarna Archive is considered a privileged source for the study of the role of messengers and merchants in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Late Bronze Age. Messengers can be documented in an important spectrum of activities, such as bearers of messages, mediators of communication, carriers of goods, merchants, escorts of royal brides and their dowries, carriers of greeting-gifts, witnesses to legal process and transactions, informants, and spies. The complex diplomatic and economic contacts included political alliances and the exchange of gifts between the Great Kings through an... Download Bookmark Aren Maeir Bookmarked by Ellen Morris Faerman, M., Boaretto, E., Uziel, J., Maeir, A. M., and Smith, P. 2011. "…In Their Lives, and in Their Death…": A Preliminary Study of an Iron Age Burial Cave at Tell es-Safi, Israel. ZDPV 127(1): 29–48. Download Bookmark Colleen Manassa Darnell Bookmarked by Rita Lucarelli Review of M.S. Ali, Hieratische Ritzinschriften aus Theben (Wiesbaden, 2002) Download Bookmark Yigal Levin Bookmarked by Ellen Morris The Southern Frontier of Yehud and the Creation of Idumea Download Bookmark Elizabeth Frood Bookmarked by Ellen Morris Introduction: material culture and religious identity in the ancient Near East and Egypt (co-authored with Rubina Raja) Download Bookmark Academia, 251 Kearny St., Suite 520, San Francisco, CA, 94108 Unsubscribe   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service   © 2017 Academia