Vol. 1 (2016)

• Programme of the 1st BAF, 24-25 June 2016

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• Guiding Questions

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Panel 1: Reconstructing missing evidence

• Loom weights as a research tool

  Jeannette Boertien

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• The Bay of Kiladha Project (Argolid, Greece): Bridging East and West

  Patrizia Birchler Emery, Julien Beck, Julien Beck, Despina Koutsoumba, Despina Koutsoumba, Ioanna Kraounaki, Ioanna Kraounaki

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• Linking a rural sanctuary with ancient metallurgy at Kataliondas Kourvellos (Cyprus)

  Patrizia Birchler Emery, Julien Beck, Athos Agapiou, Dragos Constantin, Vasiliki Lysandrou, Bertrand Merminod, Kyriakos Themistocleous

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• Easy-Going: The Treatment of Written Records in the Ancient Syropalestine

  Pavel Čech

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• Some new Linear Elamite inscriptions

  Michael Mäder

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Panel 2: Contextualising symbolism

• The motive of Hieros Gamos in Jesus’s Baptism in the Jordan River and in Jewish Kabballah

  Ofir Jacobson

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• Polymorphic iconography common influences or individual features in the Near Eastern perspective

  Grzegorz First

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• Garments and Shrouds of Egyptian and Nubian Pilgrims from Qasr el-Yahud, Ninth Century CE

  Orit Shamir

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• The Tell 'Uqair temple (4th mill.BC) : colours and iconography

  Sarah Dermech

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Panel 3: Localising influence and identity

• The visible dead: dolmens and the landscape in Early Bronze Age Jordan

  James Fraser

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• «All Aram» and «Upper and Lower Aram»: what the Sefire Inscription suggests us about the Aramaean ethnicity

  Alessia Venanzi

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• Thoughts on the possible Iranian origins of the Jemdet Nasr painting style

  Mouheyddine Ossman

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• The Treatment of Troublesome Regions

  Boaz Stavi

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• Provincial Administration in Babylonia: A Case of Kassite Nippur

  Marina Redina-Thomas

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Panel 4: Identifying ancient paradigms

• Importing the law? Possible elements of the Mesopotamian legal tradition in New Kingdom Egypt (1549-1064BCE)

  Alexandre Loktionov

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• Terminology for Children in Sumerian Administrative Records

  Vitali Bartash

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• Political Metaphors in Hittite Diplomatic and Historiographic Texts

  Marta Pallavidini

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• Mesopotamian cylinder seal from Lori Berd (Armenia): An object in an unusual location?

  Ruben Davtyan

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Panel 5: Assessing transition

• Evidence for early sedentism at Körtik Tepe, southeastern Turkey, during the Younger Dryas

  Marion Benz, Corinna Rössner, Kathleen Deckers, Simone Riehl, Kurt W. Alt, Vecihi Özkaya

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• Following the Collapse: Regeneration or Transformation of the Urban Societies?

  Mohammed Alkhalid

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• The Iron Age I in the Northern Levant: New perspectives from Lebanon

  Hanan Charaf

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Panel 6: Reconsidering the past

• The never-ending Quest for the Elites:New Approaches to the Study of Cemeteries and Social Organization

  Pınar Durgun

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