Paolo Matthiae

Frances Pinnock

Marta D'Andrea

Excavations at Ebla started in 1964. In 2014, fifty years later, an international congress was organized to try and highlight the contribution of this excavation to the knowledge of the history, philology and art history of the Ancient Near East. This book collects the papers from this international congress. Bringing together established and junior scholars from various areas, Ebla and Beyond aims at fostering the dialogue between experts in different fields of the history and archaeology of Syria in the Bronze and Iron Ages and between experienced foreign scholars and the latest generation of scholars of the School of Oriental Archaeology of Rome. The contributions in the book on the one hand show how much the discoveries at Ebla during forty-seven years of fieldwork have changed the way of understanding the developmental trajectory of Syria from the third through the first millennium BC. On the other hand, the work of the scholars from Rome and elsewhere proves how, even in difficult times for field archaeology, it is possible to exploit the results of a long-standing enterprise of this kind in a fruitful and sometimes revolutionary way.

Ancient Near Eastern Studies After Fifty Years of Discoveries at Tell Mardikh : Proceedings of the International Congress Held in Rome, 15th-17th December 2014

Ebla and Beyond

Douglas Clark

S. Thomas Parker

Bethany Walker

Moawiyah Ibrahim

Andrea Polcaro

Suzanne Richard

Larry Herr

Jehad Haron

Gloria London

Stephan Bourke

Adeeb Abushmais

Khairieh Amr

Debra Foran

Alan Walmsley

Micaela Sinibaldi

Basem Mahamid

The volume incorporates the latest information available from current scholars in the field of ceramic analysis of the pottery forms of Jordan. It features introductory chapters on the history of Jordan, ceramic technology and typology, social and economic connections of pottery, and the sourcing of clay. These are followed by thirteen chapters on the pottery of the archaeological periods of Jordan (Pottery Neolithic through the Late Islamic Period). Concluding the manual are extensive bibliographies for each period and an extensive glossary. Accompanying each period chapter are maps of Jordan identifying all the sites mentioned in the chapter. Spiral bound.158 pp.; illus.

A Manual

The Pottery of Jordan

Davide Nadali

Maria Gabriella Micale

Sarah Pizzimenti

Agnese Vacca

Almost four dozen articles are devoted to the Near Eastern Archaeologist Frances Pinnock (La Sapienza, Roma). In accordance with her special field of research several studies focus on the archaeology of and excavations in ancient Syria, especially Ebla / Tell Mardikh. Further contributions also explore and discuss excavations, objects, and questions of cultural history of Anatolia, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine (Jericho), and Mesopotamia.

Studies on Near Eastern Art and Archaeology in Honour of Frances Pinnock

Pearls of the Past

Marta D'Andrea

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