Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
20.05.2019
Verlag
Alpha EditionSeitenzahl
20
Maße (L/B/H)
21,6/14/0,1 cm
Gewicht
41 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-93-5370-348-6
Before Pharaohs carved triumphs in stone, they negotiated in clay. From the palace archives of Tell-el-Amarna come voices of governors, princes, and great kings, pressed into akkadian cuneiform tablets and sent across deserts and sea-routes. This is power in ink. Percy Handcock gathers a vivid annotated translation collection of these ancient diplomatic letters into a readable primary source anthology. Here you meet Egyptian foreign diplomacy at work: tribute demanded, alliances weighed, border raids reported, and urgent canaanite city-state correspondence from the towns of the Late Bronze Age Levant. The letters illuminate Amarna period Egypt and the wider world of ancient Near East diplomacy, including the tense web of akhenaten diplomatic correspondence that linked Egypt with its neighbours. In their formal greetings and sharp complaints lie gift-exchange, royal marriage politics, and the rivalry of Babylon, Mitanni, and Hatti. Notes and selections give helpful orientation without drowning the drama of real messages written for real survival. Few documents bring you closer to the everyday machinery behind history. For the Egyptology student reference shelf, it remains a foundational guide to the Amarna archive; for readers of scripture and antiquity, it also stands as a valuable biblical studies sourcebook, revealing the political landscape that shaped the eastern Mediterranean. Collectors of classic scholarship will appreciate its early twentieth-century clarity and restraint. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today -- a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.
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