Essays on Syria in the Iron Age

Bunnens, Guy (editor). Essays on Syria in the Iron Age. Louvan: Peeters, 2000. First edition. Quarto (12″ x 8-1/2″). (10), 557, (1)pp. Text in English, French and German. Pictorial red wrappers lettered in white. Profusely illustrated with numerous drawings & photos, plus some maps and archaeological ground plans. .

Contents: Syria in the Iron Age: problems of definition / Guy Bunnens — ‘Crisis years’ and the new political system in early Iron Age Syria: some introductory remarks / Horst Klengel — Syria and the periodization of the Iron Age: a cross-cultural perspective / Stefania Mazzoni — Aramaean kingdoms of Syria: origin and formation processes / Helen Sader — Shamshi-ilu, language and power in the western Assyrian empire / Stephanie Dalley — Use and function of Aramaic tablets / Frederick Mario Fales — Linguistic geography of Syria in Iron Age II (c. 1000-600 B.C.) / Edward Lipiński — Assyrian propaganda for the West: Esarhaddon’s stelae for Til Barsip and Sam’al / Barbara Nevling Porter — Aramäer und Assyrer: die Schriftzeugnisse bis zum Ende des Assyrerreiches / Wolfgang Röllig — Syro-Hittite funerary monuments: a phenomenon of tradition of innovation? / Dominik Bonatz — Textile industry in northern Syria during the Iron Age according to the evidence of the Tell Afis excavations / Serena Maria Cecchini.
Tradition — Adaption — Innovation: zur Reliefkunst Nordsyriens/Südanatoliens in neuassyrischer Zeit / Iris Gerlach — Identifying room use and vessel function: a case-study of Iron Age pottery from building C2 at Tell Ahmar, North Syria / Andrew S. Jamieson — Die West-Ğazira in der Eisenzeit / Berthold Einwag — Les sites phéniciens de Syrie au Fer III/Perse: Bilan et perspectives de recherche / Josette Elayi — Syrian Jezireh in the late Assyrian period: a view from the countryside / Daniele Morandi Bonacossi — Settlement patterns in the Syrian Jazira during the Iron Age / Tony J. Wilkinson and Eleanor Barbanes — Tell Kazel: six centuries of Iron Age occupation (c. 1200-612 B.C.) / Emma Capet and Eric Gubel — Iron Age remains at Tell Qarqur in the Orontes valley / Rudolph H. Dornemann — Tell Knēdiǧ: a rural site in the Iron Age / Sabina Kulemann-Ossen and Lutz Martin / Le premier age du Fer a Tell Afis et en Syrie septentrionale / Fabrizio Venturi — Tell Mastuma: change in settlement plans and historical context during the first quarter of the first millennium B.C. / Shigeo Wakita, Hisahiko Wada and Shinʼichi Nishiyama. (OCLC)

Supplement 7 of the Peeters series, “Ancient Near Eastern Studies.” Near fine. Softcover. (53118) $65