Two sets of summaries are provided for each contribution and there is an index of ancient names. The illustrations are excellent. Close reading of the material under scrutiny here has brought to light a range of nuances that may also be relevant for borders, frontiers and exiles elsewhere in the ancient Near East. Wilfred G.E. Watson, SOTS 2025 book list

Jana Mynářováis professor of history and cultures of Asia and Africa and director of the Institute of Ancient Newar Eastern Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University Prague specialising in Assyriology and Egyptology.

Ludovica Bertolini is assistant professor in the the Institute of Ancient Newar Eastern Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University Prague.

Federico Zangani is a Renfrew Fellow in the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge and a Junior Research Fellow at Homerton College, University of Cambridge, specialising in Egyptology.

Preface              

About the Contributors

Abbreviations  

Part 1. Politics

Aaron A. Burke: Creating Crisis: Empire and Refugees at the End of the Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean

Andrew Burlingame: “To the King, My Master”: Epistolary Evidence for Ugaritian Agents Abroad

Yoram Cohen and Eduardo Torrecilla: Shepherds, Armies, and Prisoners of War in Late Bronze Age Hittite Syria              

Susan Cohen: Mobility of Boundaries in the Middle Bronze Age Southern Levant         

Steven Garfinkle: Mobile Patronage: Amorite Spatial and Social Mobility under the Third Dynasty of Ur

Jacob Lauinger: Movements of Persons and Populations at Middle and Late Bronze Age Alalakh

Ellen Morris: How to Tell “Moving” Tales of Female Captivity in the Ancient World  

Jana Mynářová: Crossing Borders, Reaching Limits: Boundaries in the Late Bronze Age Levant

Seth Richardson: First Causes, Individual Focus: Displacement and Inequality, Babylon, Seventeenth Century BCE

Part 2. Ideas, Concepts, and Languages

Ludovica Bertolini: Crossing Life Stages: Dressing, Undressing, and Changing Clothes as Navigating through Life

Paul Delnero: Going to Heaven, Hell, and Egypt: Mesopotamian Myths and Scribal Training at Amarna        

Federico Giusfredi: Was Hurrian Spoken in Central Anatolia during the Middle Bronze Age and the Early Age of Hatti?

Anne Goddeeris: Ceci n’est pas un kudurru: Or How Adad-ēṭir Climbs the Social Ladder              

Adam E. Miglio: Uta-napišti’s Reconnaissance-Birds as Celestial Signs and the Transmission of Antediluvian Knowledge          

Kevin McGeough: Migration, Mobility, Diffusion, Social Evolution, and Culture History: How Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Archaeological Theory Has Impacted Our Vision of the Bronze Age            

Part 3. Materiality and Administration

Jacob C. Damm: Pottery as Practice: Multilevel Social Analyses of Egyptian-style Ceramics in the Late Bronze Age Southern Levant        

Ann-Kathrin Jeske: The Expansion of the Egyptian Administrative-Economic System in the Southern Levant: A Comparison of the Proto- and Early Dynastic Period (Late EB IB) and the Eighteenth Dynasty (LB I to IIA)              

Marie-Kristin Schröder: Migration and Mobility in the Archaeological Record of the “C-Group” Culture between Egypt and Kerma       

Sandra Veprauskienė: The Establishment of the Western Frontier: A Study of the Middle Kingdom Enactment Practices in Dakhla Oasis             

Index of Names