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March 10, 2006
Newly Available Works on Alalakh
Paul James Cowie on Ancient Near East .net reminds us that the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago is in the process of making an ever-increasing number of works publicly available. One of the works that Paul highlights is The Amuq Valley Regional Projects, Volume 1 – Surveys in the Plain of Antioch and Orontes Delta, Turkey, 1995-2002 (OIP 131). I was particularly interested in the chapters on Tell Atchana, perhaps better known by its ancient name, Alalakh. I found the pictures comparing how the various excavation areas looked recently to how they looked when they were first photographed by Woolley in the late 1930s and late 1940s extremely interesting and more than a little depressing. Erosion happens.
I've always thought that Alalakh deserved more attention than it often gets and certainly more attention than I have given it. It is heartening to see this volume being made available on line at no charge. I was also glad to see the beautiful transcriptions and revised transliterations of the 70 or so historical and judicial tablets from Alalakh strata VII (17/16th century BCE) which were recently published by Dietrich and Loretz in Ugarit Forschungen 36. Sorry, except for one tablet, there are no translations, but they have made the texts of these tablets very accessible to the scholar.
Posted by Duane Smith at March 10, 2006 9:25 PM | Read more on Archaeology |
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