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	Alalakh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alalakh, or Alalah, is the name of an ancient city and its associated city-state of the Amuq River valley, located in the Hatay region of southern Turkey near the city of Antakya (ancient Antioch), and now represented by an extensive city-mound known as Tell Atchana.
		Alalakh was founded during the Middle Bronze Age in the 2nd millennium BC, as one of the first great cities of the Fertile Crescent.
		Alalakh was probably destroyed by the Peoples of the Sea in the 12th century, as were many other cities of coastal Anatolia and the Levant.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alalakh (753 words)

	Alalakh - OnlineEncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Alalakh is the name of an ancient city and its associated city-state of the Amuq River valley, located in the Hatay region of southern Turkey near the city of Antakya (ancient Antioch), and now represented by an extensive city-mound known as Tell Atchana.
		Alalakh was founded during the Bronze Age in the 4th millennium BCE, as one of the first great cities of the Fertile Crescent.
		Alalakh's commercial relations with Syria, Babylonia and Cyprus, documented in cuneiform tablets, was temporarily interrupted when it was sacked by the Hittite king Hattussili I; later it was sacked again, by Suppiluliuma I and incorporated into the Hittite Empire.
	www.neareasternarchaeology.com /encyclopedia/index.php?title=Alalakh&redirect=no (386 words)

	THE ALALAKH EXPEDITION
		Alalakh is the name of an archaeological site found in a region of the northern Levant known as "the Amuq." The Amuq is a broad, fertile valley situated near the northeastern corner of the Mediterranean Sea.
		Alalakh is located in the southern part of the Amuq, close to where the Orontes River bends west towards the Mediterranean Sea.
		Alalakh was excavated by Leonard Woolley from 1937 to 1939, and again from 1946 to 1949.
	oi.uchicago.edu /OI/PROJ/AMU/Alalakh.html (464 words)

	Alalakh
		Alalakh was an ancient city in southern Turkey, located in the Hatay region near Antioch (today Antakya).
		Alalakh's commercial relations with Syria, Babylonia and Cyprus, documented in cuneiform tablets, was temporarily interrupted when it was sacked by the Hittite king Hattushili I; later it was sacked again, by Suppiluliuma I and incorporated into the Hittite Empire.
		Excavations at Alalakh have also produced a body of written material that is second in importance only to that from Ugarit.
	www.knowledgefun.com /book/a/al/alalakh.html (337 words)

	Idrimi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Idrimi was the king of Alalakh in the first half of the 15th century BC.
		Idrimi was a son of the king of Aleppo who had been deposed by the new regional master, Barattarna, king of the Mitanni.
		Idrimi founded the kingdom of Mushki, and ruled from Alalakh as a vassal to the Mitanni.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Idrimi (130 words)

	Alalakh - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Inscriptions record his ruling upon rival territorial claims between the Mushki of Alalakh and his other vassals in Ugarit, Nuhassa and Aleppo.
		The Peoples of the Sea destroyed Alalakh in the 12th century; in line with the other cities of the Levant, there is a gap in structures, writing or works of art at Alalakh between 1200 and 850 BC, the Dark Ages of the Ancient Near East.
		The site was briefly re-investigated by a University of Chicago team in 2000, before the launch of a major annual excavation effort by the same institution in 2002.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Alalakh (559 words)

	ALALAKH: A LATE BRONZE AGE CAPITAL IN THE AMUQ VALLEY, SOUTHERN TURKEY
		Historically, the city of Alalakh was the capital of the Mukish kingdom, a vassal to the kingdoms of Yamhad (today Aleppo) during the eighteenth through sixteenth centuries BC, and to Mitanni during the fifteenth through fourteenth centuries BC; it was later incorporated into the Hittite empire (Anatolia).
		Woolley was certainly correct in his observations stressing the shared stylistic traditions of Alalakh with the Aegean, especially in view of the recently restored Minoan-style frescoes on the walls of the palaces.
		Because any future investigation at Alalakh would involve a substantial conservation effort, a photographic record of the current state of the standing monuments was completed.
	oi.uchicago.edu /OI/PROJ/AMU/NN_SPR01/NN_Spr01.html (2380 words)

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		Zur Chronologie von Alalakh VII, RHA 18 (1960), pp.
		The Chronology and Ceramic Assemblages of Alalakh, in A. Leonard jr.
		The Ishtar Temple at Alalakh, JNES 39 (1980), pp.
	web.tiscali.it /ranesorg/Alalah.htm (2448 words)

	Alalakh
		During part of the period of the 18th Egyptian Dynasty, Alalakh was ruled by King Niqmepa.
		He was nevertheless struck by the resemblances of the 8th-century palace of Zinjirli to the 14th-century palace of Alalakh.
		It is true that the Alalakh lions are less sophisticated than other lions from this region, but that need not be a sign of a very early date.
	www.varchive.org /schorr/alalakh.htm (817 words)

	Tell Atchana (Ancient Alalakh) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Tell 'Atchana, the ancient city of Alalakh, was excavated in the 1930s and 40s by Sir Leonard Woolley on behalf of the Society of Antiquaries.
		One of the most famous finds is that of the inscribed statue of one of Alalakh's kings, Idrimi, which bears his life story in cuneiform and is now in the British Museum.
		The site itself has fallen into disrepair somewhat, but it is still possible to see the remains of the two palaces of the Middle and Late Bronze Age, although the splendour of their appearance as originally excavated has to be imagined by the modern visitor.
	www.pef.org.uk /EarlySyriaPages/Alalakh.htm (255 words)

	The Graduate School : S03vonDassow1
		Social Classes of Alalakh Under the Mittanni Empire, a study of social class differentiation in the ancient Near East.
		The Alalakh IV texts formed the basis for the investigation I undertook in my dissertation.
		At the time that I wrote my dissertation, many of the cuneiform tablets from Alalakh IV remained unpublished, in particular several lists categorizing people according to their social class.
	www.grad.umn.edu /faculty-staff/funding/dean/GIA/examples/documents/S03vonDassow1.html (2268 words)

	Notebook
		It is to the middle of the fourteenth century that we may perhaps attribute the Alalakh lions already mentioned.
		Whether or not these particular sculptures anticipate the Bogazkûy gates it is impossible to say, but the carvers of those gates were certainly influenced by what they had seen in Syria or had got from Syrian associations, for the sphinxes, unknown hitherto in Anatolia, are Egyptian sphinxes translated from male to female by Phoenician imitators.
		The word-god in the same gallery is most likely to be Hittite: -a contemporary spear-head from Alalakh flanked by lions, found in a temple, may be due to Hittite influence, and a somewhat similar axe from Ugarit must surely be Anatolian because the blade is of iron.
	www.noteaccess.com /Texts/Woolley/6b.htm (2956 words)

	Biblica 83 (2002) Richard S. HESS
		However, one Middle Bronze Age text from Alalakh is exceptional in that its largely preserved text details the gift from one king to another (although a vassal) of a city and its villages and lands in exchange for loyal services rendered in a recent battle.
		Compare this with the note on Joshua’s advanced age that appears at the beginning of the allotment in Josh 13,1 and recurs after the allotment is finished as the first verse of chap.
		The similarity of expressions in both Alalakh exhortations may suggest that these texts are not original with their document, either.
	www.bsw.org /project/biblica/bibl83/Comm15m.html (4931 words)

	The Shelby White - Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications
		Alalakh, Tell Ta‘yinat and Çatal Höyük), and has provided one of the foundational cultural sequences for the region.
		The Amuq Plain strategically straddles one of the principal transit corridors that ran from the Syro-Mesopotamian interior west to the Mediterranean and north to Anatolia.
		The analysis and documentation of these remains thus will fill important gaps in the archaeological record for the region, and will provide the scholarly world with essential material for the study of ancient Near Eastern society during these formative phases in the Late Bronze and Iron Ages.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~semitic/wl/digsites/Mesopotamia/Catalhoyuk_05 (450 words)

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		We left unfinished in "The Mitannians" article D. Courville's discussion of the archaeology of ancient Alalakh [100].
		It might be recalled that Courville had identified Level VII with Yarim-Lim's conquest of this city, a conquest that had suppressed a culture that had then re-emerged, as Courville had estimated it, about 50 years afterwards.
		A relation was observed between the decoration of some of this pottery from early Neolithic I in Crete with that at the site of Alalakh, though the observations was [sic] interpreted inversely, i.e., that the similarity was due to an influence of the Alalakh culture on that of Crete.
	www.specialtyinterests.net /the_hurrians.html (1636 words)

	Revisionism, Biblical Chronology in the Light of Stratigraphy at Tell Brak
		Mitanni ware is paralleled at Alalakh IV circa 15th century [1, p.72].
		In Level 6 (Late 15th century), there is glazed pottery paralleled at Alalakh Level 6 dated to the 17/16th century.
		In Level 2 (10th /9th) there are ivories with parallels to Alalakh 4 15th / 14th centuries and texts of late Mitanni Kings Artashumara and Tushratta late14th century.
	www.ldolphin.org /alanm/tellbrak.html (2085 words)

	IDRIMI INSCRIPTION
		However the Land Hatti did not meet and did not come against me. I proceeded in accordance with heart-desire: I made their booty and took their property, their possession and their property away and distributed it to my auxiliary troops, my brothers and my companions.
		I returned to the country Mukish and entered Alalakh, my city, with the booty, and with cattle, with goods, with property, with possession and property, that I had brought down from the country Hatti.
		As our fathers had determined the signs of the Gods of Alalakh, then also I made sacrifices for our fathers on a continual basis, that they had let carry out.
	www.geocities.com /farfarer2001/alalakh/idrimi_inscription.htm (1600 words)

	Jesus was truly an African! - single post for printer
		Idrimi was one of the sons of the royal house of Aleppo, which was subject to the powerful kingdom of Mitanni.
		The inscription states that he had been ruling for thirty years when he had the statue inscribed, though it has been suggested that the text was actually added to the statue about three hundred years after Idrimi.
		Althou some sources would state that the only similarity between the Hapiru or Habiru and the Hebrew people is a similiarity in names, there are many other similarities between the two.
	www.abovetopsecret.com /forum/single.php?post=593799 (983 words)

	Denver Journal - 6:0106 - Mesopotamia and the Bible: Comparative Explorations
		By including this information from the region just west of the Tigris-Euphrates valley, the editors have created a well rounded work that presents a comprehensive view of the cultures, languages and civilizations that influenced the growth and development of the nation Israel.
		These essays cover a region that is generally considered outside traditional Mesopotamia, however, the authors argue effectively that these western areas are culturally and critically related to both traditional Mesopotamia and Israel.
		This essay chronicles Alalakh's usefulness as a second millennium resource arguing for a "similar milieu for much of the biblical material from the books of the Pentateuch, Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and the first part of 1 Kings" (p.
	www.denverseminary.edu /dj/articles2003/0100/0106 (1242 words)

	Barattarna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		None of his own records have yet been found, but his name is mentioned in a record from Nuzi dated to "when king Barattarna died and was cremated".
		More information is included in the biography of Idrimi of Alalakh.
		Barattarna ruled over the Hurrians and made Idrimi his vassal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barattarna (184 words)

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		According to Van de Mieroop [0575], Zimri-Lim was the son-in-law of Yarim-Lim (whom I have previously identified as the biblical Hiram).
		The brother(-in-law) whom he placed on the throne of Alalakh was Rezin/Zimri-Lim/Idrimi, whose Mitannian descendants figure so prominently in the EA letters.
		Other places where cuneiform documents in Akkadian and other languages throw light on Mitannis are Arraphka, Nuzi (near Kirkuk), Alalakh, a river port on Orontes (on the Turkish-Syrian border near Antioch), Ugarit (Ras Shamra in Syria) on the Mediterranean, Mari on the river Euphrates.
	www.specialtyinterests.net /the_mitannians.html (6179 words)

	Abnormal Interests: Newly Available Works on Alalakh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		I found the pictures comparing how the various excavation areas looked recently to how they looked when they were first photographed by Woolley in the late 1930s and late 1940s extremely interesting and more than a little depressing.
		I was also glad to see the beautiful transcriptions and revised transliterations of the 70 or so historical and judicial tablets from Alalakh strata VII (17/16th century BCE) which were recently published by Dietrich and Loretz in Ugarit Forschungen 36.
		Sorry, except for one tablet, there are no translations, but they have made the texts of these tablets very accessible to the scholar.
	www.telecomtally.com /blog/2006/03/newly_available.html (280 words)

	Dodd : Tell al-Judaidah \| The Shelby White - Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications
		A comprehensive publication of Judaidah’s post-2000 BC remains will contribute to the Oriental Institute’s long-term research strategy that is aimed at investigating the growth of urban centers and rural settlements in this landscape during the last ten thousand years and at defining the nature of political control and the character of regional economic integration.
		Tell al-Judaidah provides an important chronological bridge between the collapse of the Late Bronze Age center Alalakh and the emergence of the Iron Age center at Tell Tayinat.
		The recently renewed excavations at Alalakh and Tell Tayinat make the resolution and publication of Tell al-Judaidah’s post-2000 BC stratigraphic sequence a major desideratum.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~semitic/wl/digsites/NLevant/Judaidah2006 (322 words)

	Gates (1981) Alalakh levels VI and V: A chronological reassessment
		Gates (1981) Alalakh levels VI and V: A chronological reassessment
		Alalakh levels VI and V: A chronological reassessment
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	www.getcited.org /?PUB=102263715&showStat=Ratings (83 words)

	ARIT News Page
		Ancient Alalakh in the Plain of Antioch (Antakya)
		After completing the excavation of the Royal Cemetery of Ur in the 1930's, Sir Leonard Woolley turned to the Bronze Age capital city of Alalakh (Tell Atchana) in the Amuq Valley near Antakya in southern Turkey, where he again made rich discoveries.
		Located at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea, the valley was a crossroads for Anatolian, Near Eastern, and Aegean civilizations.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /ARIT/ARITEvents.htm (1694 words)

	Biblical Archaeology Review May/June 2001: Where Was Abraham's Ur?
		1) According to an Alalakh text of about 1600 B.C., a village named Urê lay at the western edge of the Fertile Crescent.
		The places referred to in the Ebla, Alalakh and Nuzi tablets were all probably villages within the immediate environs of their respective urban centers.
		2 Donald J. Wiseman, The Alalakh Tablets (London: British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, 1953), 56.8.
	fontes.lstc.edu /~rklein/Documents/Ur.htm (1441 words)

	The Turkish Times/Local
		Title of the talk is: Hittites and the Land of Alalakh: New Discoveries in the Amuq Valley, Turkey K. Aslihan Yener, Associate Professor of Archaeology, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.
		This lecture covers the results of two seasons of investigations at Tell Atchana, ancient Alalakh.
		Alalakh was the capital of the Amuq Valley region (Plain of Antioch) which was then called the Kingdom of Mukish during the Hittite period c.
	www.theturkishtimes.com /archive/02/02_01/local.html (1580 words)

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