Babylonian Encounters in the Upper Diyala River Valley: Contextualizing the Results of Regional Survey and the 2016-2017 Excavations at Khani Masi
Babylonian Encounters in the Upper Diyala River Valley: Contextualizing the Results of Regional Survey and the 2016-2017 Excavations at Khani Masi
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10.3764/aja.123.3.0439
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发表时间：
2019-07-01
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1.2
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Perruchini, Elsa
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作者：
Glatz, Claudia;Casana, Jesse;Perruchini, Elsa
迦西巴比伦是青铜时代晚期近东地区的强国之一。它的国王们与埃及的法老们交换了外交信件，并与他们的亚述和埃兰邻居保持着自己的关系。然而，巴比伦的内部运作仍然只是大致的轮廓，它的精英们的扩张野心，他们可能已经实现的程度，以及随后的帝国遭遇的性质也是如此。在东北部地区尤其如此，在这里，美索不达米亚低地与迪亚拉河谷的扎格罗斯山麓相遇，在那里，一系列的运动走廊相交，形成了一个具有战略意义的高地-低地边界。本文介绍了伊拉克东北部上迪亚拉平原区域调查和卡尼马西青铜时代晚期遗址发掘的重要新成果。我们的数据和分析不仅大大扩展了巴比伦文化领域的已知范围，而且Khani Masi的纪念性特征及其更广泛的定居环境促使人们从根本上重新思考巴比伦在这一过渡景观中的存在的性质和年代。因此，本文为考古帝国与边疆研究领域提供了一个重要的新案例研究。（1）
Kassite Babylonia counts among the great powers of the Late Bronze Age Near East. Its kings exchanged diplomatic letters with the pharaohs of Egypt and held their own against their Assyrian and Elamite neighbors. Babylonia's internal workings, however, remain understood in their outlines only, as do its elite's expansionary ambitions, the degrees to which they may have been realized, and the nature of ensuing imperial encounters. This is especially the case for the region to the northeast, where the Mesopotamian lowlands meet the Zagros piedmonts in the Diyala River valley and where a series of corridors of movement intersect to form a strategic highland-lowland borderland. In this paper, we present critical new results of regional survey in the Upper Diyala plains of northeast Iraq and excavations at the Late Bronze Age site of Khani Masi. Not only do our data and analyses expand considerably the known extent of Babylonia's cultural sphere, but also the monumental character of Khani Masi and its wider settlement context prompt a fundamental rethinking of the nature and chronology of Babylonian presence in this transitional landscape. As such, this paper contributes an important new case study to the field of archaeological empire and borderland studies.(1)