Ancient Near Eastern art in context : studies in honor of Irene J. Winter
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Ancient Near Eastern art in context : studies in honor of Irene J. Winter
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by her students ; edited by Jack Cheng, Marian H. Feldman.
Publication Information:
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xii, 521 pages) : illustrations.
ISBN:
9789047420859
Abstract:
Covers topics such as: palatial and temple architecture, royal sculpture, gender in the ancient Near East, and interdisciplinary studies that range from fourth millennium BCE to modern ethnography and cover Sumer, Assyria, Babylonia, Iran, Syria, Urartu, and the Levant.
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UAS/JPL: EBSCO Academic Subscription.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents:
Introduction. Introduction / Jack Cheng, Marian H. Feldman -- Personal perspective on Irene Winter's scholarly career / John M. Russell -- Picturing the past, teaching the future / Michelle I. Marcus -- "Seat of kingship/a wonder to behold": architectural contexts. Note on the Nahal Mishmar "crowns" / Irit Ziffer -- Upright stones and building narratives: formation of a shared architectural practice in the ancient Near East / Ömür Harmanşah Blurring the edges: a reconsideration of the treatment of enemies in Ashurbanipal's reliefs / Stephanie Reed -- "Idols of the king": ritual contexts. Assyrian royal monuments on the periphery: ritual and the making of imperial space / Ann Shafer -- Godlike semblance of a king: the case of Sennacherib's rock reliefs / Tallay Ornan -- Ceremony and kingship at Carchemish / Elif Denel -- Temple and the king: Urartian ritual spaces and their role in royal ideology / Tuğba Tanyeri-Erdemir -- "Legitimization of authority": ideological contexts. Workmanship as ideological tool in the monumental hunt reliefs of Assurbanipal / Jülide Aker -- Darius I and the heroes of Akkad: affect and agency in the Bisitun relief / Marian H. Feldman -- Melammu as divine epiphany and usurped entity / Mehmet-Ali Ataç
"Sex, rhetoric, and the public monument": gendered contexts. Between human and divine: high priestesses in images from the Akkad to the Isin-Larsa period / Claudia E. Suter -- Shulgi-simti and the representation of women in historical sources / T.M. Sharlach -- Lead inlays of Tukulti-Ninurta I: pornography as imperial strategy / Julia Assante -- "Opening the eyes and opening the mouth": interdisciplinary contexts. Barley as a key symbol in early Mesopotamia / Andrew C. Cohen -- Biblical mĕlîlot̲, Akkadian millatum, and eating one's fill / Abraham Winitzer -- Self-portraits of objects / Jack Cheng -- From Mesopotamia to modern Syria: ethnoarchaeological perspectives on female adornment during rites of passage / Amy Rebecca Gansell -- Ninety-degree rotation of the cuneiform script / Benjamin Studevent-Hickman.
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Print version record.