Néhány új ókori keletes könyv

K. Duistermaat: The Pots and Potters of Assyria. Technology and organisation of production, ceramic sequence and vessel function at Late Bronze Age Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria. Papers on Archaeology from The Leiden Museum of Antiquities (PALMA) 4. Brepols.

Ü. Yalcin, H. Özbal, A. G. Paşamehmetoğlu (szerk): Ancient Mining in Turkey and the Eastern Mediterranean. Ankara, Atılım University. Az azonos című nyári konferencia aktái.

I. Eph'al: The City Besieged. Siege and Its Manifestations in the Ancient Near East. Brill.

S végül egy felettébb izgalmas kötet, melynek a tartalomjegyzékét is idemásolom, az kíváncsiságot felcsigázandó:

B. J. Collins - M. R. Bachvarova - I. C. Rutherford (eds.): Anatolian Interfaces. Hittites, Greeks and Their Neighbours. Proceedings of an International Conference on Cross-Cultural Interaction, September 17-19, 2004. Oxbow.

Tartalom:

Part 1: History, Archaeology and the Mycenaean-Anatolian Interface

Troy as a "Contested Periphery": Archaeological Perspectives on Cross-Cultural and Cross-Disciplinary Interactions Concerning Bronze Age Anatolia (Eric Cline); Purple-Dyers in Lazpa (Itamar Singer); Multiculturalism in the Mycenaean World (Stavroula Nikoloudis); Hittite Lesbos? (Hugh Mason);

Part 2: Sacred Interactions

The Seer Mopsos as a Historical Figure (Norbert Oettinger); Setting up the Goddess of the Night Separately (Jared Miller); The Songs of the Zintuhis: Chorus and Ritual in Anatolia and Greece (Ian Rutherford);

Part 3: Identity and Literary Traditions

Homer at the Interface (Trevor Bryce); The Poet's Point of View and the Prehistory of the Iliad (Mary Bachvarova); Hittite Ethnicity? Constructions of Identity in Hittite Literature (Amir Gilan);

Part 4: Identity and Language Change

Writing Systems and Identity (Annick Payne); Luwian Migration in Light of Linguistic Contacts (Ilya Yakubovitch); "Hermit Crabs," or New Wine in Old Bottles: Anatolian-Hellenic Connections from Homer and Before to Antiochus I of Commagene and After (Calvert Watkins); Possessive Constructions in Anatolian, Hurrian and Urartean as Evidence for Language Contact (Silvia Luraghi); Greek mólybdos as a Loanword from Lydian (H Craig Melchert);

Part 5: Anatolia as Intermediary: The First Millennium

Kybele as Kubaba in a Lydo-Phrygian Context (Mark Munn); King Midas in Southeastern Anatolia (Maya Vassileva); The GALA and the Gallos (Patrick Taylor); Patterns of Elite Interaction: Animal-Headed Vessels in Anatolia in the Eighth and Seventh Centuries BC (Susanne Ebbinghaus); "A Feast of Music": The Greco-Lydian Musical Movement on the Assyrian Periphery (John Franklin)