Buch, Englisch, Band 26, 522 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1361 g
Studies in Honor of Irene J. Winter by Her Students
Buch, Englisch, Band 26, 522 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1361 g
Reihe: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East
ISBN: 978-90-04-15702-6
Verlag: Brill
The volume will be useful for scholars who are curious about how visual culture is being used to study the ancient Near East.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Jack Cheng and Marian H. Feldman
A Personal Perspective on Irene Winter’s Scholarly Career
John M. Russell
Picturing the Past, Teaching the Future
Michelle I. Marcus
Bibliography for Irene J. Winter, 1967–2005
I. “Seat of Kingship/A Wonder to Behold”: Architectural Contexts
A 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 Harmanšah
Blurring the Edges: A Reconsideration of the Treatment of Enemies in Ashurbanipal’s Reliefs
Stephanie Reed
II. “Idols of the King”: Ritual Contexts
Assyrian Royal Monuments on the Periphery: Ritual and the Making of Imperial Space
Ann Shafer
The Godlike Semblance of a King: The Case of Sennacherib’s Rock Reliefs
Tallay Ornan
Ceremony and Kingship at Carchemish
Elif Denel
The Temple and the King: Urartian Ritual Spaces and their Role in Royal Ideology
Tugba Tanyeri-Erdemir
III. “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
The Melammu as Divine Epiphany and Usurped Entity
Mehmet-Ali Ataç
IV. “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
The Lead Inlays of Tukulti-Ninurta I: Pornography as Imperial Strategy
Julia Assante
V. “Opening the Eyes and Opening the Mouth”: Interdisciplinary Contexts
Barley as a Key Symbol in Early Mesopotamia
Andrew C. Cohen
Biblical melîlot, 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
The Ninety-Degree Rotation of the Cuneiform Script
Benjamin Studevent-Hickman