Evidence Combined

This anthology contains the contributions of the 11th Melammu Symposium, which took place under the title "Evidence Combined: Eastern and Western Sources in Dialogue" in April 2017 in Beirut. The 21 contributions, authored by Assyriologists, Classicists and Archaeologists, focus on the interaction between East and West. A large part of the articles deals with the history of the Levant, an area where different cultural spheres met and whose population, especially in the famous trading cities of Tyros and Byblos, knew how to use this position and played a significant role in international trade. The articles in the volume evaluate both texts and archaeological data to provide insight into this exchange between East and West. In addition to contributions on funerary rites, textiles, seafaring and the conceptual question of how to understand borders in antiquity, numerous contributions approach the question of how to put the sources from East and West into dialogue to deepen our understanding of events and phenomena described in the writings of the classical authors.