Political and economic relations between Egypt and Anatolia were well established during the international age of the Mediterranean basin. The relationship between the two superpowers of the Late Bronze Age Pharaonic Egypt and the...
morePolitical and economic relations between Egypt and Anatolia were well established during the international age of the Mediterranean basin. The relationship between the two superpowers of the Late Bronze Age Pharaonic Egypt and the Hittites however, are mostly known from textual sources: from correspondences about marriage alliances, letters of gift exchange, and from political documents, amongst the most famous the Qadesh Treaty. On the other hand, archaeological evidence for these interactions is very rare, and often limited to chance finds such as the Nefertiti seal from the Uluburun shipwreck. In this poster I present Egyptian(izing) artifacts and materials found in Anatolia, which first appear during the Late Chalcolithic (Predynastic) period and continue throughout the Bronze Ages (Old, Middle, and New Kingdom). By comparing and contrasting the types of objects that made their way from Egypt to Anatolia, and by mapping them out, I hope to investigate the nature of the interactions that these diplomatic "brothers" had beyond what we know from textual sources.
