Material Entanglements – in the Ancient Mediterranean and Beyond

The Role of Style in the Study of Cross-Cultural Interactions

Craftsmen and Worldviews in Dialogue

Perspectives from Seleucid-Parthian Iran

Rough Mountains and Unbroken Shores

Continuity, Standardization and Amalgamation in the Ceramic Record of the Iron Age Mediterranean

Crafting as Making, Thinking and Being (Together)

Achaemenid Elements in the Material Culture and Art of the Northern Aegean

The Achaemenid impact upon the lifestyle and worldviews of local elite groups

Egyptianizing Female Sphinxes in the Mediterranean and Beyond during the Middle Bronze Age

Beyond First Impressions

Analysis of the iconography, function and regional distribution

Entangled Objects and Regional Interaction

A Network Approach to Mycenaeanization on Crete

Achaemenid and Scythian Symbiosis in Central Asia

The Material Evidence

Gendered Entanglements and Power Dynamics in the Hellenistic World

How women’s relationships with political power impacted the dynastic and royal art

Seleucid Power and its Visual Identity

Pots and People

Ceramic Containers and Mobility between the Mediterranean and Central Asia

Mediterranean Monster Cultures in the Early 1st Millennium BCE

The Marvelous Griffin Cauldrons

The Civilizing Barbarians

Nomadic Imperial Networks and Trans-Eurasian Circulation in Late Antiquity

The Mitannian Cylinder Seals from Cyprus and the Aegean Revisited

Was Achaemenid Art an 'International Style'?

Embodied Knowledge, Practice and Materiality

A Theoretical Approach to Eastern Mediterranean Craft Networks

Tell el-Burak

New Light on the Economy of Phoenician Sidon

Code-Switching and Style Interference in 1st Millennium BCE Anatolian Monumental Epigraphy

Made Locally, Read Globally?

The Origins of Tetrarchic Art in the Light of Newly Discovered Nikomedia Reliefs

Irrigation and Hydraulic Structures in the Near East during the 1st Millennium BCE

Intercultural Approaches

Functions and Meanings of Early Aegean Pottery in the Eastern Mediterranean

The Maritime Transport of Sculptures in the Ancient Mediterranean

The Spatial Articulation of the Bath as a Means of Cultural Adaptation

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Material Entanglements in the Ancient Mediterranean and Beyond investigates cultural, and especially artistic, contacts across a broad swath of the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern world from the Middle Bronze Age to the Sasanian Period (c. 2000 BCE – c. 650 CE). It brings together a group of more than 20 scholars researching different aspects of material culture/artistic production in different areas around and beyond the Mediterranean from the second millennium BCE through late antiquity with the goal to explore interconnections, scrutinize theoretical frameworks, and foster much-needed dialogue among different disciplinary/intellectual perspectives.