The stark contrast of the desert, mountains, seas, and cataracts surrounding the fertile river valley creates a dramatic separation between Egypt and the rest of the world. Despite this physical – often pretended – barrier, Egypt has historically been deeply connected to the cultures of the Eastern Mediterranean, Western Asia, and Northeast Africa. These interactions have led to a complex intermingling of culture, materials, religions, ideas, and iconography, resulting in the emergence of new forms of cultural identity.
The papers of this volume, presented to prof. Marilina Betrò, aim to explore various aspects of these interactions, spanning from the 3rd millennium BC to Roman and Medieval times, encompassing regions from Mesopotamia to the Levant, from Anatolia to the Aegean, and from the Roman Empire to Syria.
– Introduction
Gianluca Miniaci, Christian Greco, Paolo Del Vesco, Mattia Mancini, Cristina Alù
– Contact, mobility, migration: social and economic interaction across Egyptian borders (Early and Middle Bronze Age)
Juan Carlos Moreno García
– Between exchanges, interactions, and entanglements. The Egyptians and the others at Mersa/Wadi Gawasis
Andrea Manzo
– Jericho and Egypt during the Early Bronze Age: some evidence of trade and cultural interaction
Lorenzo Nigro
– Patterns of religiosity in the Levant and Egypt during the second millennium BCE: the case of the anthropoid clay coffins
Nicola Laneri, Chiara Pappalardo
– Secondary Urbanisation in Northern Lebanon and the Role of Byblos
Frances Pinnock
– Dalla corona osiriaca alla kidaris. Iconografie egiziane in un laboratorio di coroplasti nella Fenicia di età persiana
Ida Oggiano
– Anat und die Zerkauer des Fleisches
Joachim Friedrich Quack
– Notes on Mesopotamian metrology II. The representation of weighing balances in the 3rd millennium BC
Luca Peyronel
– The Lady of the Mirror. On some artifacts from the Middle Assyrian tomb 1424 at Tell Barri (NE Syria)
Anacleto D’Agostino
– Reconsidering a Southern Route. Relations between Southern Mesopotamia, Susiana and Egypt at the End of the Fourth Millennium BC
Sara Pizzimenti
– The Hittite-Egyptian Relations Before the Amarna Age: Notes on KBo 31.40 and Related Texts
Matteo Vigo
– Teli-Teššob, a Hittite Messenger at the Court of Ramesses II
Stefano de Martino
– Trade, piracy and the protection of sea-lanes in the Mycenaean world and Egypt
Jorrit M. Kelder
– Five Egyptian Scarabs from the Mycenaean Cemetery of Langada on Kos: Context, Function, and Cultural Significance
Salvatore Vitale, Katarzyna Dudlik, Louis Dautais
– The sense of Egypt: The materials and landscapes of otherness in the houses of Pompeii
Anna Anguissola
– Un nome d’Horo di Caracalla
Nicola Barbagli
– Libri dall’Egitto: la biblioteca privata del patriarca siro-ortodosso Ignazio bar Shayallah (1483-1493)
Pier Giorgio Borbone
