Interregional Contacts in the Biqāẚ Valley From a Beetle’s Point of View: Egyptian and Egyptianising Scarabs at Bronze Age Kāmid al-Lōz (Kumidi)
Authors
Boschloos, Vanessa
Discipline
Arts
History and Archaeology
Subject
Antiquity
Bronze Age
Aegyptiaca
Lebanon
scarabs
seals
Audience
Scientific
Date
2013Metadata
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The ancient city of Kumidi (present-day Kāmid al-Lōz) was one of the major centres in the Lebanese Biqāẚ Valley during the MB and LB.1 The German excavations have yielded a number of foreign goods, reflecting the town’s position on the crossroads of important routes between the Lebanese coast, inner Syria and northern Palestine.This contribution focuses on Egyptian imports and egyptianising artefacts, particularly on glyptic evidence. It seeks to reconstruct their distribution pattern within the city through a re-assessment of the objects and their archaeological contexts, offering new insights into the interregional and intraregional relations by which these imports arrived at Kāmid al-Lōz
Citation
40(2013) ; 195-219
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Type
Article
Peer-Review
Yes
Language
eng