Books by lorenzo d'alfonso
Edited volumes by lorenzo d'alfonso
Ancient Near Eastern Studies Supplement Series, 58, 2021
This volume is devoted to the search for borders in archaeology and takes as a case study the arc... more This volume is devoted to the search for borders in archaeology and takes as a case study the archaeology of Anatolia and the South Caucasus in the Bronze and Iron Ages. Up until the mid-first millennium BCE, these regions differ in interregional and macro-regional interactions, political complexity, economic and mobility strategies, and communication of identities, among which is the use and spread of writing through time. They are united by their representation in ancient sources and modern literature as borderlands. These features represent the core of the discussion developed in the volume. Chapters include theoretical discussion of borders and boundaries, and regional investigations of the Early, Middle and Late Bronze Age (Assyrian colony period, Hittite empire in Anatolia, Kura-Araxes, Trialeti-Vanadzor, Van-Urmia and other traditions in the South Caucasus), the Early Iron Age and Middle Iron Age (Troy, Phrygia, Urartu), until the unification under the Achaemenid Empire. They offer a balanced interplay between site-based investigations and landscape archaeology in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey.
Articles by lorenzo d'alfonso
Arkeoloji ve Sanat 139, 2012
Y akındoğu'da Son Tunç Çağı'nın karmaşık diplomasi ağında, Mısır'dan Hatti topraklarına buğday gö... more Y akındoğu'da Son Tunç Çağı'nın karmaşık diplomasi ağında, Mısır'dan Hatti topraklarına buğday gönderilmesinin kanıtı şaşırtıcı bir öğedir. Karnak Büyük Yazıtı'nda (Luxor, Mısır), firavun Merneptah, kendisinin buğday yollamasıyla Hatti'nin ayakta kalmış olduğunu ileri sürmektedir. Diplomasi Çağı'nın bu iki büyük devleti arasındaki yazışmalar, özellikle Ramesses II krallığı sırasında, Büyük Hatti Kralı'nın birçok kez Mısır kralına, doğrudan ya da kendine bağlı Ugarit Devleti aracılığıyla buğday göndermesini istemek için başvurduğunu göstermektedir.
Near Eastern Archaeology, 2011
During the 2009 survey season in the Plain of Iskenderun, a storage jar handle with a seal impres... more During the 2009 survey season in the Plain of Iskenderun, a storage jar handle with a seal impression bearing Anatolian hieroglyphic signs was found on the lower western slopes of Dağılbaz Höyük (Site 45), located located near the Kişla Köy village southeast of the modern city of İskenderun. The impression, which is quite well preserved, belongs to a flat, round stamp seal. It consists of five Anatolian hierglyphic signs in two columns and dates to 15th–14th centuries BCE. This would indicate that in the İskenderun Plain the adoption of the Anatolian hieroglyphic script predates the Syrian campaigns of the Great King Šuppiluliuma I to the region and is not directly connected to the installation of the imperial provincial administration south of the Taurus Mountains.
Journal Articles by lorenzo d'alfonso
Anatolian Studies, 2022
This paper offers a full reconsideration of the bestknown subgroup of pottery from Iron Age centr... more This paper offers a full reconsideration of the bestknown subgroup of pottery from Iron Age central Anatolia, commonly labelled Alişar-IV ware (see 'Definition of the Alişar-IV ceramics', below). The appearance and spread of this ceramic production are specifically bound to the region of the central Anatolian plateau and to the centuries following the fall of the Hittite empire. The central Anatolian plateau is an upland at an elevation ~1,000m asl, defined to the north by the Pontic mountains, to the south by the Taurus mountains, to the east by the Anti-Taurus and to the west by the Phrygian highlands (the modern provinces of Eskişehir, Afyonkarahisar and
Athenaeum, Jan 1, 2008
Información del artículo "Viaggi anatolici" dell&#x... more Información del artículo "Viaggi anatolici" dell'Università di Pavia: rapporto preliminare della terza campagna di ricognizione archeologica nella Tyanide settentrionale (2008).
Altorientalische Forschungen, Jan 1, 2009
Athenaeum: Studi di letteratura e Storia …, Jan 1, 2009
Información del artículo "Viaggi anatolici" dell'Università di Pavia: ... more Información del artículo "Viaggi anatolici" dell'Università di Pavia: rapporto preliminare della terza campagna di ricognizione archeologica nella Tyanide settentrionale (2008).
Altorientalische Forschungen, Jan 1, 2001
Studi micenei ed egeo-anatolici, Jan 1, 2007
... | Ayuda. Talmi-sarruma judge?: some thoughts on the jurisdiction of the kings of Aleppo durin... more ... | Ayuda. Talmi-sarruma judge?: some thoughts on the jurisdiction of the kings of Aleppo during the Hittite Empire. Autores: Lorenzo D'Alfonso; Localización: Studi micenei ed egeo-anatolici, ISSN 1126-6651, Vol. 49, Nº. 1, 2007 , pags. 159-169. ...
Altorientalische Forschungen, Jan 1, 2000
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After the end of the Hittite Empire, Anatolia and Northern Syria split into different local horiz... more After the end of the Hittite Empire, Anatolia and Northern Syria split into different local horizons, each with its own developments. Some of them show strong continuity with the previous social organisation and with some aspects of the Hittite culture, especially Cappadocia, Karkemiš and the Upper Euphrates. The research conducted over the last 5 years in Southern Cappadocia supports this view and provides further elements to shed more light on the environment which produced this continuity. This paper suggests that local administration survived in the urban centres of Cappadocia after the disappearance of the central power and that later, concurrently with the expansion of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, secondary monarchies started to exist in the region. 1 The accent on continuity characterizes most of the latest scholarly contributions (see e.g. Rose 2008 on western Anatolia; Genz 2003 on central Anatolia; Liverani and Manuelli in this volume on the Upper Ephrates; and Venturi 2010 on the Northern Levant). 2 See, for example what Mario Liverani says about the new ways of social organization: "Lo stesso vale viceversa anche per i superstiti stati territoriali, che conservarono la maggior parte delle vecchie strutture ma ricevettero una nuova caratterizzazione dalla crescita della componente tribale nella popolazione. Penso in particolare ad una diversa ideologia sociale (basata sulla giustizia), al diverso ruolo dell'assemblea, ad un diverso equilibrio tra contadini e pastori" (Liverani 2002: 45).
Athenaeum 100, 2012
Peer-review. Articoli e note inviati per la pubblicazione alla rivista sono sottoposti -nella for... more Peer-review. Articoli e note inviati per la pubblicazione alla rivista sono sottoposti -nella forma del doppio anonimato -a peer-review di due esperti, di cui uno almeno esterno al Comitato Scientifico o alla Direzione. Ogni due anni viene pubblicato l'elenco dei revisori. In questo volume e nella pagina web della rivista si può consultare quello attinente agli articoli proposti ad «Athenaeum» nel periodo 2010-2012.
Atorilische Forschungen 38, 2011
During the second half of the 14 th century BC the Hittites conquered Northern and Central Syria.... more During the second half of the 14 th century BC the Hittites conquered Northern and Central Syria. Although this wide region remained under the control of the Hittite Empire until its last days some 150 years later, the process of the installation of a new provincial administration was longer and more complex than scholars have assumed until recently. Two issues contributed to the complexity of the process: the dynamic between centre and periphery and that between indigenous administrations and new Hittite officials in charge in Syria. The present contribution gathers a number of clues for the identification of three phases in the existence of this new administration, the first two centred on the negotiation of the political space and the third on its proper realisation. This paper on Archival, Scribal, and Administrative Spaces among the Hittites will not concern physical space, that is, the shape of a tablet, writing and ductus, the location of scriptoria and archives within a city and similar matters, but rather the political process underlying the introduction of an administrative system by a new ruling group into a more populated and cultivated peripheral region.
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Books by lorenzo d'alfonso
Edited volumes by lorenzo d'alfonso
Articles by lorenzo d'alfonso
Journal Articles by lorenzo d'alfonso
in the settlement dynamics and material culture at the
site of Kınık Höyük (province of Niğde, Southern
Cappadocia, TR), between the Achaemenid and Hellenistic
periods. In particular, we will present and discuss
the available archaeological information on the life
of a settlement and a local sanctuary during the 4th–1st
c. BCE.
archaeological excavations at Kınık Höyük, in southern Cappadocia (Turkey) in 2011. The team has since uncovered traces of a site that was inhabited for about 4000 years. Among the excavated architecture are the especially important portion of the citadel walls along the north side of the site’ s central mound which reveals different architectural phases; the last one dating back to the Late Bronze Age (15th-12th c. B.C.E.). The paper describes part of this multidisciplinary research, still in progress, that aims at de-veloping a study about the fundamental architectural elements of the citadel walls and the practical and social motivations that undergo the use of this technique and, later, the aban-donment of the site and its associated technologies. The dry masonry shows some interesting building peculiarities, such as the well-preserved mud plaster and the presence of wooden fragments in regular rows of voids that are visible on the façade. The comparison between the citadel walls at Kınık Höyük and other architecture in pre-classical Anatolia highlights the particularity of the building techniques of the citadel walls at Kınık Höyük. These considerations spurred a wider investigation of Iron Age build-ing technology in this territory, with the aim to learn skills for the purpose of planning preservation procedures respectful to historical building features.
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