Egypt and the Levant

Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 2004

Egypt and the Levant INTERRELATIONS FROM THE 4TH THROUGH THE EARLY 3RD MILLENNIUM BCE, 2002

Middle Kingdom Studies, 2016

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Aula Orientalis 30: 359-367.

Birmingham Egyptology Journal, 2014

Egypt was in control of the Levant from the early Eighteenth Dynasty through to the middle of the Twentieth Dynasty. It maintained this control, at least during the Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Dynasties, through a network of vassal states reinforced by Egyptian garrisons. However, during the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Dynasties the geo-political landscape of the eastern Mediterranean underwent radical changes. Many of Egypt’s major diplomatic partners collapsed and there was even an attempted invasion of Egypt itself by the Sea Peoples via the Levant. Following this attempted invasion the pattern of physical structures associated with Egyptian rule in the region changed, which has led to suggestions that the nature of Egyptian control over the region had also been altered. In this paper I will examine the features of the landscape of authority in the Levant under Egyptian rule, and any changes to its style, from the reign of Merneptah to the period following the Sea Peoples invasion in the reign of Ramesses III. This examination will provide the evidence with which to assess whether alterations in the political landscapes were designed to present a new style of Egyptian rule over the Levant and, if so, the form which this new system may have taken.

2011

The present volume presents the proceedings from the international workshop entitled Egypt and the Near East – the Crossroads, dedicated to the study of the relations between the two regions. The symposium took place from September 1–3, 2010 at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. The main objective of the workshop was to enhance our understanding of the historical processes and the development of the abundant and complex relations between Egypt and the Near East during the period defined by the end of the Chalcolithic Period and the dawn of the Iron Age. In light of this, special attention was given to the region of Syria-Palestine. In order to obtain a well-balanced insight, the subject was discussed both from an archaeological and from a philological point of view. The volume contains fourteen papers, all of them closely related with the topic of the workshop with seven papers based on the study of material culture and archaeological data, and seven papers devoted to the study of written sources. The first group (archaeology and material culture) contains studies devoted to the Egyptian statuary from Qatna (A. Ahrens), to material from a grown settlement of the late Middle Kingdom at Tell el-Dabca (B. Bader), an overview of results of recent excavations at Tell Tweini (J. Bretschneider / A.-S. Van Vyve / G. Jans) and Tell el-Farkha (M. Czarnowicz), a study of the predynastic Egyptian influence in the Jordanian site of Tall Hujayrat al-Ghuzlan (F. Klimscha); an essay on religious symbolism in the Southern Levant in the Bronze Age according to iconography (F. Lippke) and finally, an analysis of the Levantine combed ware from Heit el-Ghurab (A. Wodzińska / M. Ownby). As for the second group of texts (written evidence) the volume contains the following papers: a reappraisal of the tale of Wenamun in the context of Ancient Near Eastern law (Ch. Brinker), a revision of the chronology of the Amarna letters sent by Aziru, the ruler of Amurru (Cordani); a detailed revision of relations between Egypt and Ḫatti set into the context of Ancient Near Eastern chronology (E. Devecchi / J. Miller), a linguistic analysis of the terminology used to refer to the king in Egyptian and Hittite texts from Ramesside period (J. Mynářová); a study of historical topography concerning the location of the toponym Qode (Z. Simon); a reconstruction of the translation processes in the production and reception of the Amarna letters (H. Tarawneh) and finally, an analysis of the relations between Egypt, Kush and Assyria before the battle of Eltekeh (S. Zamazalová).Format: 272 x 210 mm, 350 pages, hardcover, in English.

The Archaeology of Forced Migration: Conflict-Induced Movement and Refugees in the Mediterranean at the End of the 13th c. BC, edited by J. Driessen. AEGIS Archéologie du monde minoen, Louvain-la-Neuve., 2018

The closing years of the New Kingdom Empire in Canaan reveal a stiffening of opposition to Egyptian rule. The destruction and abandonment of many sites in the lowlands of Canaan during the 12th century B.C. accompanied by the appearance of dispersed settlements in the highlands suggest a period of turmoil that included the displacement of populations and their resettlement in the adjacent highlands. Nonetheless, many hallmarks of Canaanite communities during the 12th and 11th centuries reveal continuity and adaptation through this period of significant social transformation. Understanding these changes enables us to bridge the “dark age” between the decline of the Late Bronze Age and the emergence of early Iron Age states such as Israel.

Ägypten und Levante XXXII, 2022

This paper proposes a new approach to examining the relationship between Egypt and the southern Levant. While the political, economic, and military interests of Egypt in the southern Levant are well established, we ask whether the southern Levant was ever ideologically considered to be part of Egypt proper. In doing so, we examine the evidence, or lack thereof, for the existence of the important political and religious concept of Maat in the Late Bronze Age southern Levant, and how this evidence informs the Egyptian viewpoint toward the southern Levant.