The Ancient Near East, C. 3000-330 BC"The Ancient Near East embraces a vast geographical area, from the borders of Iran and Afghanistan in the east to the Levant and Anatolia, and from the Black Sea in the north to Egypt in the south. It was a region of enormous cultural, political and linguistic diversity. In this authoritative new study, Amélie Kuhrt examines its history from the earliest written documents to the conquest of Alexander the Great, c.3000-330 BC. This work dispels many of the misapprehensions which have surrounded the study of the region. It provides a lucid, up-to-date narrative which takes into account the latest archaeological and textual discoveries and deals with the complex problems of interpretation and methodology. The Ancient Near East is an essential text for all students of history of this region and a valuable introduction for students and scholars working in related subjects, --Cover". |
Contents
THE LEVANT c 1200c 720 385 | 1 |
BABYLONIA c 900539 573 | 9 |
INTRODUCTION 11467O | 10 |
MESOPOTAMIA IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM BC | 19 |
1b The cities c 29002340 | 27 |
1c The Empire of Agade | 44 |
1d The Third Dynasty of Ur 21122004 | 56 |
Notes 646 | 72 |
16 | 190 |
late dynasty XVIII 14031306 13901295 | 194 |
Roads 692 | 203 |
dynasties XIX and XX | 204 |
4e The New Kingdom state | 211 |
the formation of a small Levantine state c 1200900 417 | 214 |
Notes 701 | 224 |
THE HITTITES | 225 |
THE OLD BABYLONIAN | 74 |
8a The seapeoples 386 | 75 |
2b Ashur in the Old Assyrian period c 2000c 1800 | 81 |
2c The Old Assyrian merchants in Anatolia c 1900c 1830 | 90 |
Chronology of predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt | 99 |
2e Hammurabi and the First Dynasty of Babylon 18941595 | 108 |
11f The cities of Babylonia in the Late Babylonian period 610 | 116 |
EGYPT FROM DYNASTY I TO DYNASTY XVII | 118 |
8c The survival of Late Bronze Age centres 401 | 123 |
dynasties XXIXXV 1069664 623 | 124 |
3a The formation of the Egyptian state | 125 |
c 26862181 | 135 |
Old Kingdom | 136 |
13e The structure of the Achaemenid empire 676 | 140 |
12 | 152 |
3c Herakleopolis and the rise of Thebes c 21801991 | 154 |
3d Egypt in the Middle Kingdom c 2040c 1720 20231720 | 161 |
3e The Second Intermediate Period and Hyksos rule in Egypt | 173 |
14 | 174 |
The great powers c 1600c 1050 | 183 |
Chronology of Hittite kings | 230 |
Sc The Hittite Old Kingdom c 1650c 1500 | 238 |
19 | 248 |
5d The Hittite Empire c 1430 1420c 1200 | 250 |
Se The Hittite state | 266 |
SYRIA AND THE LEVANT | 283 |
6b Ugarit | 300 |
6c Emar | 314 |
MESOPOTAMIA c 1600c 900 | 332 |
21 | 335 |
Babylonia among the great powers | 339 |
7b Assyria in the Middle Assyrian period c 1400c 1050 | 348 |
23 | 357 |
THE NEOASSYRIAN EMPIRE 934610 473 | 358 |
664525 636 | 362 |
the classical period c 1450c 1100 | 365 |
the end of the Kassites and succeeding dynasties | 374 |
24 | 375 |
c 900605 576 | 376 |
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Abydos Agade Akhenaten Akkadian Alalah Aleppo Amarna Amenophis Amorite Amurru Anatolia ANET archives Arzawa Ashur Assyrian Babylon Babylonian brother campaigns Carchemish centre chapter chariot chronology court cult cultural dates daughter developed divine documents dynasty XVIII earlier Early Dynastic east Egyptian king Elam Elamite empire Euphrates evidence excavations father frontier gods Hammurabi Hatti Hattusa Hattusili Hittite Hittite king Hurrian Hyksos important inscriptions Isin Kanesh kārum Kassite king's kingship Kurunta Lagash land Larsa later Levant Lichtheim lord Lower Egypt majesty Mari material Mesopotamia Middle Kingdom military Mitanni Mitannian Mursili Muwatalli neighbouring nome north Syria Nubia officials Old Assyrian Old Kingdom palace perhaps period political probably problems Ramesses Ramesses II region reign royal rule rulers scholars Shamshi-Adad Shaushga stele Sumerian Suppiluliuma tablet Tarhuntassa Telepinu temple territory texts Theban Thebes throne tombs trade treaty Tudhaliya Tuthmosis Tuthmosis III Ugarit Ur III Uruk