Yuval Goren, Israel Finkelstein and Nadav Na'aman
Contributions by:
Michal Artzy, Frank Asaro, Shlomo Bunimovitz, Vladimir Chikatunov, Lydia Grossowicz, Moshe Inbar, Simcha Lev-Yadun, Hans Mommsen and Joseph Yellin
Tel Aviv 2004
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The publication is a synthesis of the results of a study that approaches the problem of
locating the provenance of the Amarna Tablets from a new angle. Through mineralogical and
chemical analyses of samples from over 300 tablets housed in museums in Berlin, London,
Oxford and Paris, the project aims at pin-pointing their geographic origin and clarifying
the geographic history of the ancient Near East. It launches a new analytical tool for
resolving historical problems that have haunted research for decades. In the case of the
Amarna archive, the introduction of this scientific technique helps to clear up the
controversy over the location of Alashiya and Tunip, opens the way to track the
territorial expansion of the kingdom of Amurru, enables reconstruction of the territorial
disposition of the Canaanite city-states of the Late Bronze Age and sheds light on the
Egyptian administration system in Canaan.
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ISBN 965-266-020-5, xviii+386 pages with 40 colour plates.
Hard Cover. Price $65.00
MONOGRAPH SERIES OF THE SONIA AND MARCO NADLER INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY
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