Tell el-Dabca and Byblos: New Chronological Evidence

Kopetzky, Karin

doi:10.1553/aeundl28s309

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“…The Egyptian materials in Byblos, Ebla, and Kerma seem to predate their chronological context (caution in Ben Tor forthcoming a and b). For instance, in royal tombs at Byblos, the diagnostic prestige goods of Egyptian manufacture or inspiration stylistically and typologically date back to the mid-MB I (late Middle Kingdom) (Kopetzky 2018), particularly to the reigns of Amenemhat III and IV. The pottery corpus, on the other hand, dates to the MB II-mid MB III, suggesting that two chronological distinct groups of objects can be envisaged in a single assemblage.…”

Section: 'Out-of-time' Artefacts: Chronological Asynchronismmentioning

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At the dawn of the Late Bronze Age ‘globalization’, the (re)-circulation of Egyptian artefacts in Nubia and the Northern Levant in the MB II–mid MB III (c. 1710–1550 BC)

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2020

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The article analyses the circulation of late Middle Kingdom (mid MB I–MB I/II) Egyptian artefacts in the Northern Levant and Upper Nubia in the MB II–mid MB III (c. 1710–1550 BC). Three case studies have been selected: the royal tombs of Byblos, the tomb of the Goats at Ebla, and the Egyptian Cemetery at Kerma. Although the two regions were politically disconnected, their populations appropriated, reused, and occasionally reinterpreted Egyptian artefacts in a similar manner. These artifacts, although found in Second Intermediate Period contexts, generally dated to the mid MB I-MB I/II (late Middle Kingdom). It is suggested that the collapse of Egyptian central power at the end of the Middle Kingdom could have led to the recirculation of older Egyptian objects. The recirculation suggests that the ‘globalisation’, noted in archaeology and text during the Late Bronze Age (1500-1200 BC) in fact started in the first half of the Second millennium BC.

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Section: 'Out-of-time' Artefacts: Chronological Asynchronismmentioning

confidence: 99%

At the dawn of the Late Bronze Age ‘globalization’, the (re)-circulation of Egyptian artefacts in Nubia and the Northern Levant in the MB II–mid MB III (c. 1710–1550 BC)

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2020

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Hieroglyphs, Pseudo-Scripts and Alphabets

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2023

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The Egyptian hieroglyphic script was exceptionally versatile, as becomes clear when studying its multiple uses both within Ancient Egypt and beyond its borders. Even the few cases discussed in this Element demonstrate that in the ancient world hieroglyphs appealed to a wide readership, which ranged from highly accomplished scribes, artists and priests, to semi-literate workmen, as well as to speakers of non-Egyptian languages. Creative processes within these different groups resulted in very different adaptations of regular hieroglyphic writing: highly specialized enigmatic compositions, less informed ad hoc orthographies, isolated uses of hieroglyphs as marks and emblems, and the development of new writing systems. Important reasons for the wide appeal and deep impact of hieroglyphic writing are the iconicity and cultural messages of its individual signs on the one hand, and its remarkable semiotic strategies in rendering human language on the other.

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Ancestral origins: northern Levantine Funerary Palaces in the Middle Bronze Age

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Tell el-Dabca and Byblos: New Chronological Evidence

Cited by 5 publications

References 8 publications

At the dawn of the Late Bronze Age ‘globalization’, the (re)-circulation of Egyptian artefacts in Nubia and the Northern Levant in the MB II–mid MB III (c. 1710–1550 BC)

At the dawn of the Late Bronze Age ‘globalization’, the (re)-circulation of Egyptian artefacts in Nubia and the Northern Levant in the MB II–mid MB III (c. 1710–1550 BC)

Hieroglyphs, Pseudo-Scripts and Alphabets

Ancestral origins: northern Levantine Funerary Palaces in the Middle Bronze Age

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