Part I: Bronze Age edited by R. S. Merrillees and V. Kassianidou 1. Alas(h)i(y)a (Irs)and Asiya Isy)in Ancient Egyptian Sources (Kenneth A.Kitchen) 2. Peuples, etats et cites. Enquete sur la cartographie geopolitique egyptienne (Nicolas Grimal) 3. The Stone Vases of the Philia Culture from Vasilia: Cypriote, Egyptian or Other? (Robert S. Merrillees) 4. A Contribution from Tell el-Dabca/cEzbet Helmi to the Cyprus Connection at the Turn of Middle Bronze Age to Late Bronze Age (Irmgard Hein) 5. Embracing the New: the Perception of Cypriot Pottery in Egypt (Linda Hulin) 6. May he send me silver in very great quantities EA 35 (Vasiliki Kassianidou) Part II: Iron Age edited by V. Kassianidou 7. The Relations between Egypt and Cyprus from Neo-Assyrian to Achaemenid Rule 7th-6th Cent. B.C.) (Andreas Meh) 8. The Relations of Egyptian Iconography and Symbolism with the Royal Ideology of Cypriot City Kingdoms (Pavlos Flourentzos) 9. L'Egypte, Chypre et la route de Peluse aGaza: approche micro-regionale des politiques strategiques des derniers souverains egyptiens et achemenides 610-332 av. J.-C.) (Claire Balandier) 10. Divinites egyptiennes Chypre a l'epoque archaique (Sabine Fourrier) 11. From Siwa to Cyprus: The Assimilation of Zeus Ammon in the Cypriote Pantheon (Derek B. Counts) 12. Le Baal d'Amathonte et le Bes egyptien (Isabelle Tassignon) 13. Representations of Cypriote Scribes and Carriers of Written Documents: A Link with Egypt? (Frieda Vandenabeele) Part III: Classical and Later Periods edited by D. Michaelides 14. Un Apollon Chypriote aux Boucles Libyques (Antoine Hermary) 15. Fusion and diffusion. Isiac Cults in Ptolemaic and Roman Cyprus (Aristodemos Anastasiades) 16. Ptolemaic Art and the Legitimation of Power (Emilia Dina Vassiliou) 17. Le relations culturelles entre l'Egypte et Chypre: La ceramique d'Alexandrie et de Paphos (Pascale Ballet) 18. Modeles alexandrins ? Apport des fouilles et prospections recentess dans la necropole occidentale d'Alexandrie ala connaissance de l'architecture funeraire hellenistique et imperiale (Marie-Dominique Nenna) 19. Twilight of the Ptolemies: Egyptian Presence on Late Hellenistic Yeronisos (Joan Breton Connelly) 20. Sailors and Artisans: the Egyptian Connections of Ceramic Finds from Yeronisos (Jolanta Mlynarczyk) 21. Alexandrian Influences on the Architecture and Decoration of the Hellenistic Tombs of Cyprus (Anne-Marie Guimier-Sorbets and Demetrios Michaelides) 22. Alexandrian Elements in Cypriot Burial Customs of the Hellenistic and Roman Periods (Danielle A. Parks) 23. La contribution des conteneurs commercieux l'histoire des echanges entre Chypre et l'Egypte l'epoque archaique l'epoque romaine tardive (Antigone Marangou and Sylvie Marchand) 24. The Nile Flows Underground to Cyprus: the Painted Water-Cistern at Salamis Reconsidered (Helen Whitehouse)

The backbone of seafaring mobility of humans and goods during the historical longue durée of the Mediterranean basin was formed by islands, both large and small. The present volume – resulting from an international workshop held in Cyprus in 2007 – focuses on the multifaceted character of the Mediterranean insular system during Early Byzantine times, ca. 400-700. Through a wide range of regional syntheses and case studies, as well as a multi-disciplinary approach, the volume seeks to explore a complex phenomenon from several different points of view: the Mediterranean longue durée, local developments and evolution, the true nature of insularity and the notion of connectivity.