Selected Bibliography

 

 


Albright, W. F.

1957 Further Observations on the Chronology of Alalah, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 146: 26-34

Astour, M. C.
1969 The Partition of the Confederacy of Mukiš-Nuhašše-Nii by Šuppiluliuma, Orientalia N.S. 38: 381-414
1972 Hattušiliš, Halab, and Hanigalbat, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 31: 102-9
1992 Alalakh, in David Noel Freedman, editor-in-chief, The Anchor Bible Dictionary, 142-145. New York: Doubleday.

Beckman, Gary M.
1999 Hittite Diplomatic Texts. 2nd ed, Writings from the Ancient World no. 7. Atlanta, Ga.: Scholars Press.

Bergoffen, Celia J.
2005 The Cypriot Bronze Age Pottery from Sir Leonard Woolley's Excavations at Alalakh (Tell Atchana). Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaft.

Bienkowski, Piotr A.
1982 Some Remarks on the Practice of Cremation in the Levant, Levant 14: 80-89

Bryce, Trevor
1998 The Kingdom of the Hittites. Oxford; New York: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press

Collon, Dominique
1975 The Seal Impressions of Tell Atchana/Alalakh (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 27). Kevelaer: Verlag

Butzon & Bercker
1977a A New Look at the Chronology of Alalakh Level VII: A Rejoinder, Anatolian Students 27: 127-131
1977b Ivory, Iraq 39/2: 219-222.
1981 The Aleppo workshop: a seal-cutters' workshop in Syria in the second half of the 18th c. BC, Ugarit-Forschungen 13: 33-43.
1982 The Alalakh Cylinder Seals – A New Catalogue of the Actual Seals from Tell Atchana, and from Neighbouring Sites on the Syrian-Turkish Border (British Archaeological Reports, International Series 132), Oxford
1986 The Green Jasper Cylinder Seal Workshop, in M. Kelly-Buccellati, ed., Insight Through Images: Studies in Honor of Edith Porada, 57-70. Malibu: Undena Publications
1987/2005 First Impressions – Cylinder Seals in the Ancient Near East. London: British Museum Publications
1994 Bull-leaping in Syria, Agypten und Levante IV: 81-85
1995 Ancient Near Eastern Art, London British Museum Publications

Dassow, E.V
2008 State and Society in the Late Bronze Age: Alalah under the Mittani
Empire. Studies on the Civilization and Culture of Nuzi and the Hurrians, Volume 17
Bethesda: CDL Press.

Dietrich, M and O. Loretz
2004 Alalah-Texte der Schict VII (I). Historichse und juristische Dokumente, Ugarit-Forschungen 36: 43-150
1981 Die Inschrift des Königs Idrimi von Alalah, Ugarit-Forschungen 13: 201-269
1966 Die soziale Struktur von Alalah und Ugarit, Die Welt des Orients 3:188–205.
1969a Die soziale Struktur von Alalah und Ugarit (II), Die Welt des Orients 5:57–93.
1969b Die soziale Struktur von Alalah und Ugarit (V), Ugarit-Forschungen 1:37–64.
1970 Die soziale Struktur von Alalah und Ugarit (IV), Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und vorderasiatische Archäologie 60:88–123.

Draffkorn-Kilmer, A.
1959 Hurrians and Hurrian at Alalah: An Ethno-Linguistic Analysis, Ph.D. diss., University of Pennsylvania
1959 Was King Abba-an of Yamhad a Vizier for the King of Hattusa? Journal of Cuneiform Studies 13: 94-97

Durand, J.-M.
2002 Le Culte d'Addu d'Alep et l'affaire d'Alahtum, Florilegium Marianum VII, SEPOA, Paris

Eder, Christian

2003 Die Datierung des spätbabylonischen Alalah, in R. Dittman, C. Eder and B. Jacobs, eds., Altertumswissenschaften im Dialog: Festschrift für Wolfram Nagel zur Vollendung seins 80. Lebensjahres, 227-288. (AOAT no. 306), Münster: Ugarit-Verlag

Gaàl, E.
1982(1984) State and Private Sectors in Alalah VII, Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 30: 1-44
Giacumakis, G.
1970 The Akkadian of Alalah. (Janua Linguarum Series Practica no. 59). The Hague/Paris: Mouton

Gates, Marie-Henriette Carre
1981 Alalakh Levels VI and V: A Chronological Reassessment. Syro-Mesopotamian Studies 4/2. Malibu: Undena
1987 Alalakh and Chronology Again, in P. Åström, ed., High Middle, or Low?, 60-86. Gothenburg: Studies in Mediterranean archaeology and literature.

Goetze, A.,
1957a Alalah and Hittite Chronology, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 146: 20-25
1957b On the Chronology of the Second Millennium B.C., Journal of Cuneiform Studies 11: 63-73.
1957c Remarks on the Ration Lists from Alalakh VII, Journal of Cuneiform Studies 13: 34-38
Greenstein, Edward L.
1997 Alalakh Texts, in E. Meyers, ed., The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East. Vol 1:59–67. New York: Oxford University Press..
1995 Autobiographies in Ancient Western Asia, in J. Sasson ed., Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, Vol III, 2421-2432. New York: Scribners & Sons.

Greenstein, E.L. and D. Marcus

1976 The Akkadian Inscription of Idrimi, Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society of Columbia University 8: 59-96
1996 A Comparison of Ugarit, Emar, and Alalakh Archives, 75–83 in N. Wyatt et al. (eds.), Ugarit, Religion, and Culture: Essays Presented in Honour of Professor John C.L. Gibson. Ugaritisch-Biblische Literatur 12. Munster: Ugarit-Verlag.

Heinz, M.
1992 Tell Atchana/ Alalakh: Die Schichten VII-XVII. Alter Orient und Altes Testament Band 41. Kevelaer: Verlag Butzon & Bercker

Hess, Richard S.
1988 A Preliminary List of the Published Alalakh Texts, Ugarit-Forschungen 20: 69-87
1992 Observations on Some Unpublished Alalakh Texts, Probably from Level IV, Ugarit Forschungen 24: 113-120.

Kaptan, Ergun
2005 Açana'da M.O. 2. Binyilla ait Bakir Ingotlar, [2nd Millennium BC Copper Ingots from Atchana] 20. Arkeometri Sonuçlari Toplantisi, 5-12. Ankara: General Directorate for Cultural Heritage and Museums

Kempinski, A
1983 Syrien und Palästina (Kanaan) in der letzten Phase der Mittelbronze IIB-Zeit (1650-1570 v. Chr). (Ägypten und Altest Testament: 4). Wiesbaden : O. Harrassowitz

Kienast, B.
1979 Die altbabylonischen Kaufurkunden aus Alalah, Die Welt des Orients 10: 35-63

Klengel, H.
1974 Königtum und Palast nach den Alalah-Texten, in P. Garelli, ed., Le palais et la Royauté, 273- 282. Paris: Geuthner
1979 Die Palastwirtschaft in Alalah, in E. Lipinski, eds., State and Temple Economy in the Ancient Near East, Vol. 2, 435-57. (OLA 6). Leuven: Departement Oriëntalistiek, Katholieke Universiteit.
1981 Historischer Kommentar zur Inschrift des Idrimi von Alalah, Ugarit Forschungen 13: 269-278
1992 Syria: 3000 to 300 B.C.: a Handbook of Political History. Berlin: Akademie Verlag.

Landsberger, B.
1954 Assyrische Königsliste und 'Dunkles Zeitalter', Journal of Cuneiform Studies 8: 31-106.

Lauinger, Jacob

2007 Archival Practices at Old Babylonian/Middle Bronze Age Alalakh (Level VII). Dissertation Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department, University of Chicago.

2006 The Middle Bronze Age Tablets from Tell Atchana: An Archaeological and Archival Analysis, 23. Arastirma Sonuçlari Toplantisi, 389-396. Ankara: General Directorate of Antiquities and Museums

2005 Epigraphic Finds from the Oriental Institute’s 2003 Excavations at Alalakh, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 64: 53-58

2004 A New Fragment of the Epic of Anzû in the Antakya Museum, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 94: 80-84

Liverani, M.
1973 Memorandum on the Approach to Historiographic Texts, Orientalia N.S. 42: 178-194

Longman, T
1991 Fictional Akkadian Autobiography: A Generic and Comparative Study. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns

Magness-Gardiner, B.
1994 Urban-Rural Relations in Bronze Age Syria: Evidence from Alalah Level VII Palace Archives,in G.M. Schwartz and S.E. Falconer eds., Archaeological Views from the Countryside. Village Communities in Early Complex Societies, 37-47. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press

McClellan, T. L.
1989 The Chronology and Ceramic Assemblages of Alalakh, in A. Leonard, Jr. and B. B. Williams ed., Essays in Ancient Civilization Presented Helene J. Kantor, 181-212. SAOC 47. Chicago: University of Chicago.
1997 Houses and Households in North Syria during the Late Bronze Age, in C. Castel, M. al-Maqdissi and François Villeneuve eds., Les maisons dans la Syrie antique du IIIe millénaire aux débuts de l'Islam: Pratique et représentations de l'espace domestique, 29-59. (Bibliothèque archéologique et historique no, 150). Beirut: Institut français d'archéologie du Proche-Orient.

Mellink, M.
1957 Review, Alalakh. An Account of the Excavations at Tell Atchana in the Hatay, 1937-1949, American Journal of Archaeology 61: 395-400

Na'aman, N.
1974 Syria at the Transition from the Old Babylonian Period to the Middle Babylonian Period, Ugarit Forschungen 6: 265-74
1976 A New Look at the Chronology of Alalakh Level VII, Anatolian Studies 26: 129-43
1979 The Chronology of Alalakh Level VII Once Again, Anatolian Studies 29: 103-113
1980a The Ishtar Temple at Alalakh, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 39: 209-214
1980b A Royal Scribe and His Scribal Products in the Alalakh IV Court, Oriens Antiquus 19: 107–16.
1981 The Recycling of a Silver Statue, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 40: 147-48

Oliva, Juan
1998 Neue Kollationen und Anmerkungen zu einigen Alalah VII-Texten, Ugarit-Forschungen 30: 587-600
2005 New Collations and Remarks on Alalakh VII Tablets, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 64: 1-21

Oller, G. H.
1989 The Inscription of Idrimi: A Pseudo-Autobiography? in H. Behrens, D. Loding, and M. Roth, eds., DUMU-E2-DUB-BA: Studies in Honor of Åke W. Sjöberg, Occasional Publications of the Samuel Noah Kramer Fund, no. 11, 411-417. Philadelphia: University Museum.

Otto, A.
2000 Die Entstehung und Entwicklung der Klassisch-Syrischen Glyptik, Berlin (de Gruyter)

Porter, Barbara A.
2001 Old Syrian Popular Style Cylinder Seals. Columbia University dissertation

Rowe, Ignacio Márquez.
1997 Halab in the XVIth and XVth Centuries B.C.: A New Look at the Alalah Material. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 87: 179-205.

Sasson, J. M.
1981 On Idrimi and Sarruwa, the Scribe, in M.A. Morrison and D.I. Owen, eds., Studies on the Civilization and Culture of Nuzi and the Hurrians, in Honor of of Ernest R. Lacheman, 309-24. Winona Lake, Indiana

Smith, S.
1939 A Preliminary Account of the Tablets from Atchana, Antiquaries Journal 19: 38-48.
1949 The Statue of Idrimi. London: Occasional Publications of the British Institute of Archaeology in Ankara, no. 1
Smith, S. and J. Sewell
1940 Alalakh and Chronology. London: Luzac and Co.

Speiser, E.
1954 The Alalakh Tablets, Journal of the American Oriental Society 74:18–25.
van Soldt, Wilfred
2000 Syrian Chronology in the Old and Early Middle Babylonian Periods, Akkadica 119-120:103-116.

Stein, Diana L.
1997 Alalakh, in Eric Meyers, ed., Oxford Encyclopedia of the Ancient Near East, 55-59. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
1993 The Seal Impressions (G. Wilhelm (ed.), Das Archiv des Šilwa-Teššup, Vol. 9), Wiesbaden (Harrassovitz)

Dassow, Eva von
2005 Archives of Alalah IV in Archaeological Context, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 338: 1-69
1997 Social Stratification of Alalah under the Mittani Empire. Ph.D. diss., New York University. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms.

Wilhelm, Gernot

2004 Generation Count in Hittite Chronology, in H. Hunger and R. Pruzsinszky eds., Mesopotamian Dark Age Revisited Vienna Williams, B. and R. Hassert
1978 Some Aspects of the Excavation at Tell Atchana, Part I: A Critical Review of the Pottery from Levels XVII-VII, Serapis 4: 41-56

Winstone, H.V.F.
1990 Woolley of Ur. The Life of Sir Leonard Woolley. London: Secker and Warburg

Wiseman, D. J.
1953 The Alalakh Tablets. Occasional Papers of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, No. 2 London
1954 Supplementary Copies of Alalakh Tablets, Journal of Cuneiform Studies 8: 1-30
1958 Abban and Alalah, Journal of Cuneiform Studies 12: 125-28
1959a Ration Lists from Alalakh VII, Journal of Cuneiform Studies 13: 19-33
1959b Ration Lists from Alalakh IV, Journal of Cuneiform Studies 13: 50-59
1967 Alalakh, in D. Winton Thomas, ed., Archaeology and Old Testament Study, 117-35
Wiseman, D. J. and R. S. Hess
1994 Alalakh text 457, Ugarit Forschungen 26: 501-508

Woolley, C. L.
1936 Tal Atchana, Journal of Hellenic Studies 56: 125-134
1937a Excavations near Antioch in 1936, Antiquaries Journal 17/1: 1-15
1937b New Clues to Hittite History in Syria, Illustrated London News 9.10: 604-
1938a Excavations at Al Mina, Sueidia I and II, Journal of Hellenic Studies 58:1-30, 133-70.
1938b Excavations at Tal Atchana, 1937, Antiquaries Journal 18: 1-28
1939 Excavations at Atchana-Alalakh, 1938, Antiquaries Journal 19: 1-37
1947a Archaeological News, American Journal of Archaeology 51: 425-428
1947b The Tomb of Yarim-Lim, Illustrated London News 121, no. 3157: 470-472
1947c Atchana 1946, MAN 58: 60-61
1948 Excavations at Atchana-Alalakh, 1939, Antiquaries Journal 28: 1-19
1950a Excavations at Atchana-Alalakh, 1946, Antiquaries Journal 30: 1-21
1950b Archaeological News, American Journal of Archaeology 54: 63-64
1953a A Forgotten Kingdom. Melbourne: Penguin Books
1953b Spadework. Adventures in Archaeology. London: Lutterworth Press
1955 Alalakh. An Account of the Excavations at Tell Atchana in the Hatay, 1937-1949. Report of the Research Committee, 18. London: Society of Antiquaries

Yener, K. Aslihan
2007a A Zoomorphic Vessel from Alalakh: Diplomatic Emblems in Three Dimensional Form?, in Gülsün Umurtak, ed., Festschrift for Professor Refik Duru. Turkish Historical Society.
2007b Transformative Impulses in Late Bronze Age Technology: A Case Study from the Amuq Valley, Southern Turkey, in E. Stone ed., Settlement and Society: Essays Dedicated to Robert McCormick Adams, 360-385. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA
2005a University of Chicago, Oriental Institute Aççana Höyük (Antik Alalakh) 2004 Calismalari, 26. Kazi Sonuçlari Toplantisi, 45-53. Ankara: General Directorate of Antiquities and Museums
2005b Introduction, Alalakh Spatial Organization: Augmenting the Architectural Layout of Levels VII-0, Conclusions and Future Objectives, Appendix B in K. A. Yener ed., The Amuq Valley Regional Projects. Volume One. Surveys from the Years 1995-2002. Chicago: Oriental Institute Press
1998 A View from the Amuq in South-Central Turkey: Societies in Transformation in the Second Millennium, in E. H. Cline and D. Harris-Cline, eds., The Aegean and the Orient in the Second Millennium. Proceedings of the 50th Anniversary Symposium, Cincinnati 18-20 April 1997, Aegaem 18: 366-374. Liège: Université de Liège.

Zeeb, Frank
1991a Tell Leilan und die Gündung des altbabylonischen Alalah, Ugarit-Forschungen 23. 402-
1991b Studien zu den altbabylonischen Texten aus Alalah (I): Sculdscheine, Ugarit-Forschungen 23: 405-438
1992 Studien zu den altbabylonischen Texten aus Alalah (II): Pfandurkunden, Ugarit-Forschungen 24: 447-480
1993 Studien zu den altbabylonischen Texten aus Alalah (ii): Schuldabtretungsurkunden, Ugarit-Forschungen 25: 461-472
1998 Die Ortsnamen und geographischen Bezeichungen der Texte aus Alalah VII, Ugarit-Forschungen 30: 829-886
2001 Die Palastwirtschaft in Altsyrien nach den spätaltbabylonischen Getreidelieferlisten aus Alalah (Schicht VII) Münster Ugarit-Verlag Alter Orient und Altes Testament: Veroffentlichungen zur Kultur und Geschichte des Alten Orients und des Alten Testaments; 282
2004 The History of Alalakh as a Test Case for an Ultrashort Chronology of the Mid-Second Millennium B.C.E., in H. Hunger and R. Pruzsinszky eds, Mesopotamian Dark Age Revisited. Vienna