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The scarabs from Tarsus reconsidered (excavations Hetty Goldman, 1934-38) as well as scattered finds of scarabs made accessible to the writer in the museums of Adana and Gaziantep are added to the catalogue. These should serve for a better understanding of the cultural and commercial interconnections mediated by the Aegyptiaca. The author's special objective is also to demonstrate the cultural position of the Egyptian type objects presented in the catalogue within the wider territory around the Gulf of Iskenderun during the Neo-Hittite and Neo-Assyrian Periods. For this purpose could be used the finds from the Tells of the Amuq-Plain (in the hinterland of Al Mina), brought to light by the American missions of the thirties of the last century, not yet published but studied by the writer. German description: Ein Hauptforschungsgebiet des Verfassers betrifft die Ausbreitung des agyptischen Kulturgutes zur Eisenzeit in den Mittelmeerraum. Im vorliegenden Band, dem zusammenfassende Bearbeitungen der entsprechenden Aegyptiaca Altitaliens, des phonikisch-punischen Sardinien sowie der maltesischen Inseln vorausgegangen sind, werden in erster Linie die bislang unpublizierten Amulette und Skarabaen aus Al Mina an der Orontesmundung (heute Turkei) prasentiert. Ausfuhrliche Kommentare mit Vergleichsmaterial aus Agypten und dem gesamten Mittelmeerraum sowie die zum Teil farbige fotografische Dokumentation erlautern die einzelnen Stucke. Diese stammen aus den Grabungen von Sir Leonard Woolley der Jahre 1936 und 1937 und kamen mehrheitlich nach Antakya, aber auch ins Ashmolean Museum in Oxford und ins Britische Museum, London. Dem Katalog hinzugefugt wurden einerseits die Skarabaen aus Tarsos (Grabungen Hetty Goldman, 1934-38) in Neubearbeitung und andererseits erreichbare Streufunde von Skarabaen in den Museen von Adana und Gaziantep. Sie sollen dem besseren Verstandnis der kulturellen und handelsmassigen Wechselbeziehungen dienen, welche die Aegyptiaca vermitteln. Ein besonderes Anliegen ist die Herausarbeitung der Bedeutung der prasentierten Funde innerhalb des weiteren Bereiches um den Golf von Iskenderun in spathethitischer und neuassyrischer Zeit. Dafur konnten auch die vom Verfasser studierten, aber noch nicht in Veroffentlichungen fassbaren Aegyptiaca von den Tells der Amuq-Ebene (im Hinterland von Al Mina) herangezogen werden, die die amerikanischen Missionen der dreissiger Jahre des vorigen Jahrhunderts ans Licht gebracht hatten.  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