TY - BOOK
T1 - Inscribed in Clay
T2 - Provenance study of the Amarna tablets and other ancient Near Eastern texts
AU - Goren, Yuval
AU - Finkelstein, Israel
AU - Na'aman, Nadav
N1 - "Under the auspices of the Friends of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University"--t.p. verso.
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - The publication is a synthesis of the results of a study that approaches the problem of locating the provenance of the Amarna Tablets from a new angle. Through mineralogical and chemical analyses of samples from over 300 tablets housed in museums in Berlin, London, Oxford and Paris, the project aims at pin-pointing their geographic origin and clarifying the geographic history of the ancient Near East. It launches a new analytical tool for resolving historical problems that have haunted research for decades. In the case of the Amarna archive, the introduction of this scientific technique helps to clear up the controversy over the location of Alashiya and Tunip, opens the way to track the territorial expansion of the kingdom of Amurru, enables reconstruction of the territorial disposition of the Canaanite city-states of the Late Bronze Age and sheds light on the Egyptian administration system in Canaan.
AB - The publication is a synthesis of the results of a study that approaches the problem of locating the provenance of the Amarna Tablets from a new angle. Through mineralogical and chemical analyses of samples from over 300 tablets housed in museums in Berlin, London, Oxford and Paris, the project aims at pin-pointing their geographic origin and clarifying the geographic history of the ancient Near East. It launches a new analytical tool for resolving historical problems that have haunted research for decades. In the case of the Amarna archive, the introduction of this scientific technique helps to clear up the controversy over the location of Alashiya and Tunip, opens the way to track the territorial expansion of the kingdom of Amurru, enables reconstruction of the territorial disposition of the Canaanite city-states of the Late Bronze Age and sheds light on the Egyptian administration system in Canaan.
KW - Tell el-Amarna (Egypt) -- Antiquities
KW - Cuneiform tablets
KW - Akkadian language -- Texts
KW - Ceramic materials
KW - Middle East -- Antiquities
KW - Egypt -- History -- To 332 B.C. -- Sources
KW - Eretz Israel -- History -- To 70 A.D. -- Sources
KW - Middle East -- History -- To 622 -- Sources
KW - Assyro-Babylonian letters
KW - Egypt -- History -- New Kingdom, ca. 1550-ca. 1070 B.C
KW - Tell el-Amarna tablets
M3 - Book
SN - 9652660205
SN - 9789652660305
T3 - Monograph Series of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University
BT - Inscribed in Clay
PB - Emery and Clair Yass Publications in Archaeology
CY - Tel Aviv
ER -