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ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN STUDIES
SUPPLEMENT 42
ACROSS THE BORDER:LATE BRONZE-IRON AGE RELATIONS
BETWEEN SYRIA AND ANATOLIAProceedings of a Symposium held
at the Research Center of Anatolian Studies,Ko University,
Istanbul
May 31June 1, 2010
Edited by
K. Aslhan YENER
PEETERSLEUVEN PARIS WALPOLE, MA.
2013
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CONTENTS
Introduction: Imperial Demise and Forging Emergent Kingdoms . .
. . . . 1K. A. YENER
SECTION A:EXCAVATIONS IN LEVANTINE TURKEY
AND LEVANTINE SYRIA
Chapter 1New Excavations at Alalakh: The 14th12th Centuries BC .
. . . . . . . . 11
K. A. YENER
Chapter 2The Late Bronze Age Fortresses at Alalakh: Architecture
and Identity in Mediterranean Exchange Systems . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
M. AKAR
Chapter 3Tayinat in the Early Iron Age . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 61
T. P. HARRISON
Chapter 4Chatal Hyk in the Amuq: Material Culture and
Architecture during the Passage from the Late Bronze Age to the
Early Iron Age . . . . . . . . . . . 89
M. PUCCI
Chapter 5The Crisis of Qatna at the Beginning of the Late Bronze
Age II and the Iron Age II Settlement Revival. A Regional
Trajectory towards the Collapse of the Late Bronze Age Palace
System in the Northern Levant . . . . . . . . . . . 113
D. MORANDI BONACOSSI
Chapter 6Shedding New Light on the Elusive Late Bronze and Early
Iron Ages at Tell Acharneh (Syria) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
M. FORTIN and L. COOPER
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Chapter 7Sabuniye: A Late Bronze-Iron Age Port Settlement on the
NortheasternMediterranean Coast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 173
H. PAMIR
Chapter 8A Re-evaluation of the Late Bronze to Early Iron Age
Transitional Period:Stratigraphic Sequence and Plain Ware of
Tarsus-Gzlkule . . . . . . . . 195
S. YALIN
Chapter 9Exploring Sirkeli Hyk in the Late Bronze Age and its
Interregional Con-nections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
E. KOZAL
Chapter 10The Transition from the Late Bronze Age to the Early
Iron Age at Tell Afis, Syria (phases VII-III) . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
F. VENTURI
SECTION B:EXCAVATIONS IN EASTERN TURKEY
AND EASTERN SYRIA
Chapter 11Across Assyrias Northern Frontier: Tell Fekheriye at
the End of the LateBronze Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
P. V. BARTL and D. BONATZ
Chapter 12Between the Musku and the Aramaeans: The Early History
of Guzana/Tell Halaf 293
M. NOVK
Chapter 13Some Implications of Revised C14 and
Dendrochronological Dating for the Late Bronze Levels at Tille Hyk
on the Euphrates . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
G. D. SUMMERS
Chapter 14The Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age Transition: A
Perspective from theUpper Tigris River . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
T. MATNEY
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Chapter 15Neo-Hittite Melid: Continuity or Discontinuity? . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 349
M. FRANGIPANE and M. LIVERANI
Chapter 16Pottery as an Indicator of Changing Interregional
Relations in the Upper Euphrates Valley. The Case of the Late
Bronze-Iron Age Assemblages fromArslantepe/Malatya . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
F. MANUELLI
Chapter 17New Excavations at the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age
Site of Gre Amer onthe Garzan River, Batman Province . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
G. PULHAN and S. R. BLAYLOCK
SECTION C:FUNERARY PRACTICES, TEXTS AND THE ARTS
Chapter 18Funerary Practices and Society at the Late Bronze-Iron
Age Transition. A View from Tell Shiukh Fawqni and Tell an-Nasriyah
(Syria) . . . . . . . 423
A. TENU
Chapter 19Working Ivory in Syria and Anatolia during the Late
Bronze-Iron Age . . . 449
A. CAUBET
Chapter 20Arts and Cross-Cultural Communication in the Early 1st
Millennium: The Syro-Anatolian Contact . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 465
S. MAZZONI
Chapter 21The Luwian Inscriptions from the Temple of the
Storm-God of Aleppo . . 493
J. D. HAWKINS
Chapter 22Qadesh, Sea-Peoples, and Anatolian-Levantine
Interactions . . . . . . . . . . 501
K. STROBEL
Chapter 23An Amulet with the Names of Ramesses II from the Roman
Baths at Ankara 539
H. PEKER
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CHAPTER 23
AN AMULET WITH THE NAMES OF RAMESSES IIFROM THE ROMAN BATHS AT
ANKARA
Hasan PEKER
In Memory of Professor Ali Dinol
During the 2009 season of the archaeological excavations in the
Roman Baths at Ankara, a plaque (measuring 24 18 6.3 mm) made of
white faience was unearthed1 in the earliest layer together with
Phrygian pottery. Two names of the pharaoh of the 19th dynasty,
Ramesses II (12791213 BC) were inscribed on the object, which
func-tioned as an amulet. The amulet was perforated through the
perpendicular axis, and a groove for the string to hang it
encircled the whole object (Fig. 3).
On the side which we designated as side A (Fig. 1 and Fig. 4),
the birth name (nomen, Son of Ra) of Ramesses II was placed twice
in the double cartouche. The double cartouche was decorated by
double ostrich plumes with a sun disc in between. The nomen of the
pharaoh is written with Egyptian hieroglyphs as mr(y) Imn R-ms-sw,
which means Born of Ra (Ramesses), Beloved of Amun.
On side B (Fig. 2 and Fig. 5) the throne name (praenomen) is
repeated twice as wsr-mt-R stp n R, which means The Justice of Ra
is Powerful, Chosen of Ra. The double cartouche and the decoration
is identical with side A.
On the Ankara example, the birth name of the Ramesses II is
written twice side by side on one side, and the throne name is also
repeated on the other side. On the other hand, similar objects
found elsewhere, bear the birth and the throne name side by side on
one face2 (Fig. 6, Fig. 7 and Fig. 8). Futhermore, on the examples
in Petrie3 (Fig. 9 and Fig. 10) and Ashmolean Museums4 there is no
sun disc between the ostrich plumes and their rear rectangular
sides contain an inscription mentioning daughter of the ruler of
Kheta and her name Maaherneferura in a cartouche (Fig. 10).
1 I would like to thank to the Dr. Melih Arslan, Director of the
Ankara Museum of Anatolian Civilisations who published the first
report of my readings in Arslan et al. 2011.
2 Petrie 1917, XL 45 and Petrie 1917, XLII 117 (the same
inscription on the gemma); Petrie 1889, 1580; Hall 1913, 2096.
3 Petrie Museum, UC61395; Petrie Museum, UC61296 (Petrie Museum
Online Catalogue: http://petriecat.museums.ucl.ac.uk/, accessed 13
April 2012).
4 Ashmolean Museum, Ashm. AN 1925.638.
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The names of Ramesses II, who is one of the most powerful
pharaohs of the 19th dynasty, and the magical symbols around them
should be considered as a strengthening effect of the protective
power of the amulet. This find in central Anatolia centuries after
the death of Ramesses II is proof of the strength of the lasting
tradition of his fame. The amulets of this shape, cartouches with
double ostrich plumes bearing royal names, are found in non-royal
burials of the 26th Dynasty and later5, and with this find and
similar examples,6 we may date the production of them to the 25th
Dynasty and later, in the beginning of the Late Egyptian Period. In
addi-tion to that, the find of this amulet in an archaeological
context, although bearing the names of Ramesses II, could also
support the dating of the other similar objects.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ANDREWS, C.,1994 Amulets of Ancient Egypt. London: British
Museum Press.
ARSLAN, M., AKALIN, M., TALAAKAR, A.2011 Roma Hamam 2009 Yl Kaz
almalar, 19. Mze almalar ve Kurtarma
Kazlar Sempozyumu: 341-362.BUDGE, E. A. W.,
1925 The Mummy: A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology, 2nd
ed. Cam-bridge: Cambridge University Press
HALL, H. R. H.1913 Catalogue of Egyptian Scarabs etc. in the
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London: British Museum.PETRIE, W. M. F.,
1889 Historical Scarabs: A Series of Drawings from the Principal
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5 Andrews 1994, pp. 77 and 80. 6 Budge 1925, p. 451: BM EA
55564.
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Fig. 1 Photograph of the side A.
Fig. 2 Photograph of the side B.
Fig. 3 Left, right, top and bottom edges.
Fig. 4 Drawing of the side A. Fig. 5 Drawing of the side B.
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Fig. 6 Petrie 1917,XL, 45.
Fig. 7 Petrie 1917, XLII, 117.
Fig. 8 British Museum (Hall 1913: 2096).
Fig. 9 Petrie Museum, UC61395.
Fig. 10 Petrie Museum, UC61296.
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