Álvarez-Mon / Basello / Wicks The Elamite World

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-317-32984-8
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 894 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Worlds

Javier Álvarez-Mon, a native of Spain, holds degrees in ancient Near Eastern art and archaeology from the École du Louvre (Paris) and the University of California at Berkeley respectively. He is presently Associate Professor in Near Eastern Archaeology and Art at Macquarie University (Australia) and 2014-18 Future Fellow (Australian Research Council). His primary research interests are the ancient Iranian civilizations of Elam and early Achaemenid Persia. He is presently finalising two books on The Monumental Highland Reliefs of Elam and on The Art and Culture of Ancient Elam (c. 4200-525 BC).

Gian Pietro Basello (PhD in the Ancient Near East 2005) is Adjunct Professor of Elamite language (2010-) at "L’Orientale" University of Naples, Italy. Since 2003 he has been working on the Iranian-Italian joint Project DARIOSH (Digital Achaemenid Royal Inscription Open Schema Hypertext). His researches are also devoted to ancient calendars and systems for recording time. His website is www.elamit.net.

Yasmina Wicks completed her PhD entitled "‘Alas, Short is the Joy of Life!’: Elamite Funerary Practice in the First Half of the First Millennium BCE" at the University of Sydney, Australia. She has authored a monograph Bronze ‘Bathtub’ Coffins in the Context of 8th-6th Century BC Babylonian, Assyrian and Elamite Funerary Practices (2015) and several articles on the material culture of first millennium Elam.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Álvarez-Mon, Javier

Basello, Gian Pietro

Wicks, Yasmina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

Introduction

Javier Álvarez-Mon, Gian Pietro Basello and Yasmina Wicks

Part I Imagining Elam: The History of Research and its Sources

- Ælam regio: Elam in Western Scholarship from the Renaissance to the Late 19th Century Daniel T. Potts

- Elam and the Bible

Peter Dubovský

- France and Elam

Nicole Chevalier

- Between Orientalism and Persomania: the Presentation of the Iranian Collections at the Louvre

Marianne Cotty

- Elamite Forgeries and the Antiquities Market

Oscar White Muscarella

Part II The Land and Peoples of Elam

- Physical Geography and Environment of Elam

Cameron A. Petrie, Morteza Djamali, and Matthew D. Jones

- Metals and Mining

Barbara Helwing

- The Peoples of Elam

Ran Zadok

- Elamites and Iranians

Jan Tavernier

Part III Elam through History

- The Birth of Elam in History

Piotr Steinkeller

- The Old Elamite Period

Luca Peyronel

- Elam in the Middle Elamite Period

Behzad Mofidi-Nasrabadi

- The Last Centuries of Elam: The Neo-Elamite Period

Elynn Gorris and Yasmina Wicks

Part IV Close Encounters on the Eastern and Western Fronts

- Great Domino Games: From Elam, Looking Eastwards

Massimo Vidale

- Elam and Babylonia c. 1400-1100 BC

Ran Zadok

- Elam and Assyria

Peter Dubovský

- Propaganda and Symbolism: Representations of the Elamites at the Time of Ashurbanipal Shahrokh Razmjou

Part V Language and Writing in Elam

- Prehistoric Administrative Technologies and the Ancient Near Eastern Redistribution Economy: The Case of Greater Susiana

Denise Schmandt-Besserat

- The Proto-Elamite Writing System

Jacob L. Dahl

- Linear Elamite Writing

François Desset

- The Elamite Language

Jan Tavernier

- Writing in Elam

Jean-Jacques Glassner

- Elamite Royal Inscriptions

Florence Malbran-Labat

- Elamite Administration

Gian Pietro Baselllo and Grazia Giovinazzo

Part VI The Material Culture of Elam

- Elamite Architecture

Behzad Mofidi-Nasrabadi

- Elamite Ceramics

Bernadette K. McCall

- The Metal Arts of Elam

François Bridey

- The Industry of Vitreous Materials in Elam

Noëmi Daucé

- Origins of Monumental Sculpture in Elam: Two Case Studies

Holly Pittman

- The Sculptural Arts of Elam

Javier Álvarez-Mon

- Glyptic in the 4th-2nd Millennium

Enrico Ascalone

- Glyptic in the 1st Millennium

Mark B. Garrison

- Elamite Dress and Textiles

Trudy S. Kawami

Part VII Elamite Society

- Cuneiform Culture and Science, Calendars, and Metrology in Elam

Gian Pietro Basello and Enrico Ascalone

- Elamite Religion and Ritual

Enrique Quintana

- Elamite Funerary Practices

Hermann Gasche and Steven W. Cole

- Women of Elam

Aurelie Daems

- Music

Bo Lawergren

Part VIII The Legacy of Elam

- Elamite Administrative and Religious Heritage in the Persian Heartland

Wouter F.M. Henkelman

- The Elamite Artistic Heritage of Persia

Javier Álvarez-Mon

- Elam in Achaemenid Studies

Adriano V. Rossi