The Middle Bronze Age in the Levant: Proceedings of an International Conference on MB IIA Ceramic Material, Vienna, 24th-26th of January 2001

Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2002. First edition. Softcover. Very good to near fine condition. Quarto. 384, (4)pp. Pictorial dark blue wraps, spine slightly faded to green and lettered in white. Illustrated with numerous photographs (including one color plate with 10 images), maps, ground plans, and drawings.

A volume in the series: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften... Contributions to the Chronology of the Eastern Mediterranean... Volume III.

Contents: Relative and absolute chronology of the Middle Bronze Age : comments on the present state of research / Manfred Bietak -- Ceramic imports at Tell el-Dabca during the Middle Bronze IIA / David A. Aston -- Painted pottery at the beginning of the Middle Bronze Age : Levantine painted ware / Tine Bagh -- Early Middle Bronze Age sites in the area of Salamiyah (Syria) / Yves Calvet -- Middle Bronze Age IIA ceramic typology and settlement in the southern Levant / Susan L. Cohen -- Egyptian pottery from Tell el-Dabca as a context for early MB IIA painted ware / Ernst Czerny -- The early Middle Bronze Age in the Euphrates Valley : the evidence from Tuttul/Tell Bica / Berthold Einwag.; Tombs and burial customs at Tell el-Dabʻa in area A/II at the end of the MB IIA period (Stratum F) / Irene Forstner-Müller -- A Middle Bronze Age cemetery in Ashqelon / Lilly Gershuny -- Typological analysis of the MB IIA pottery from Aphek according to its stratigraphic provenance / Moshe Kochavi, Esther Yadin -- The dipper juglets of Tell el-Dabʻa. A typological and chronological approach / Karin Kopetzky -- News from Syria : the MBA in the east and its end in the west / Marta Luciani -- Perspectives on the early MB II period in the Jordan Valley / Aren M. Maeir -- Offering practices in the temple courts of Tell el-Dabʻa and the Levant / Vera Müller.; The MB pottery horizon of Tell Mardikh/Ancient Ebla in a chronological perspective / Lorenzo Nigro -- Some links between a late Middle Kingdom cemetery at Tell el-Dabʻa and Syria-Palestine : the Necropolis of F/I, Strata d/2 and d/1 (=H and G/4) / Robert Schiestl -- The MB IIA ceramic sequence at Tel Ashkelon and its implications for the "Port Power" model of trade / Lawrence E. Stager -- Pottery of the early Middle Bronze Age at Tell Arqa and in the northern Levant / Jean-Paul Thalmann -- A sequence of four Middle Bronze gates in Ashkelon / Ross Joseph Voss. (OCLC). Wrappers with very light wear, block in near fine condition.