An Akkadian Letter from Ugarit at Tel Aphek

Owen, David I.

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“…One of Ugarit's governors, Takuhlina, whose earlier career had led him to Karkemish and, later on, to the Hittite Court at Hattusha, sent a letter to "the Great One Haya", concerning a transaction of wheat. The cuneiform tablet was found at Aphek, where a fortified structure was identified as an Egyptian residency with an adjacing caravansary, 230 implying that Haya/Huy must have temporarily resided at the mentioned Egyptian headquarter. According to Y. Goren et al, Aphek was annexed to the territory of Jaffa, which was under Egyptian control in the 13 th century BCE, and provided a command center, from where the international road could be supervised.…”

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Coping with the Army: The Military and the State in the New Kingdom

Gnirs¹

2013

Ancient Egyptian Administration

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Coping with the Army: The Military and the State in the New Kingdom

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Ancient Egyptian Administration

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The Archaeology of the Bronze Age Levant

Greenberg¹

2019

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The fundamental instability of urban or urbanizing forms of settlement in the first half of the third millennium BCE, described in Chapter 3, set the stage for an extended period of regional, non-urban settlement trajectories that covers the entire second half of the third millennium BCE. This long process of urban retreat, which began as early as the first quarter of the third millennium in some regions, may no longer qualify for the sobriquet of collapse, but is nonetheless post-urban. That is, rather than representing a survival of a resilient, primeval village substratum to which urban society reverts at the end of EB III (as proposed by some of those who refuse urban status to any Levantine sites), it should be viewed as a response to the stresses and excesses of the urbanizing trends that had affected large parts of the Levant, and as a risk-minimizing strategy that expanded the resource base for a more dispersed population. A measure of the degree to which IBA settlement recognized previous centers is the peculiar choreography of settlement and burial near and within previously urban sites that will be detailed below. These testify to a persistence of memory and to the existence of a carefully constructed genealogy that underlies territorial claims and affinities of the inhabitants of the non-urban settlements. Similarly, persistent elements of material culture and technological style point to strong links between the urban and post-urban populations in most parts of the Levant.The prolonged urban exodus of EB III should therefore be understood as a redeployment that opened new avenues of opportunity while breaking down the cultural barriers that characterized the ossified landscape of fortified towns. As will be seen, these new opportunities did not lead to the reemergence of centralized polities or to aggregations of wealth. Rather, for the next four centuries, the southern Levant appears to have settled into a "comfort zone," from which it would be jolted only at the start of the second millennium BCEa small-scale, politically segmented, territorially flexible village society.

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The Archaeology of the Bronze Age Levant

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An Akkadian Letter from Ugarit at Tel Aphek

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Coping with the Army: The Military and the State in the New Kingdom

Coping with the Army: The Military and the State in the New Kingdom

The Archaeology of the Bronze Age Levant

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