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Beyond Babylon: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C. [Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Nov. 18, 2008-Mar. 15, 2009]. New York New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art Yale University Press.
The 2nd millennium BC spanned the years 2000 BC to 1001 BC. In the Ancient Near East, it marks the transition from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age . The Ancient Near Eastern cultures are well within the historical era: The first half of the millennium is dominated by the Middle Kingdom of Egypt and Babylonia. The alphabet develops.
The same goddess is represented in the pendants of the necklace ( 47.1a–h ), and a stone monument, also of the Kassite period ( 61.12) depicts Lama at large scale. The end of the second millennium B.C. saw power over Babylon change hands several times, with Babylonia briefly falling under Assyrian domination.
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Feb 18, 2020 · The increase in localized stamp seal styles by the 9th century BCE parallels increased urbanization & centralization in ancient Israel. Early on, Egyptian art heavily influenced the Levant. By the middle of the 2nd millennium, about 1500 BCE, nearly 40% of stamp seals represented scarab beetles.
The second millennium B.C. can be conveniently divided into two periods. During the Middle Bronze Age, Amorite tribes from Syria settle across the region. Many large sites are fortified employing massive cyclopean stone blocks. Akkadian cuneiform inscribed on clay tablets is widely used.
Feb 6, 2014 · Beyond Babylon: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C. by Aruz, Joan, Kim Benzel, and Jean Evans, eds., with Catharine Roehrig, Isabel Stuenkel ...
Apr 15, 2021 · The origin of alphabetic script lies in second-millennium BC Bronze Age Levantine societies. A chronological gap, however, divides the earliest evidence from the Sinai and Egypt—dated to the nineteenth century BC—and from the thirteenth-century BC corpus in Palestine.
