Egyptianization and Elite Emulation in Ramesside Palestine. Governance and Accomodation on the Imperial Periphery, 2000, 300 p., 46 ill. -

Textual and archaeological evidence point at a strong Egyptian presence in 13th and 12th centuries B.C. Palestine. How this Egyptianization came about forms the focus of the present study. C.R. Higginbotham convincingly argues that elite emulation, derived from modern core-periphery studies lies at the root of this Egyptianization : Egyptian policy remained largely unchanged, but the Palestinian ruling class voluntary adopted the overpowering Egyptian culture. With appendices cataloguing all Egyptian and Egyptian-style material from LB-Iron 1 A Palestine.