Ancient Near Eastern Art In Context: Studies in Honor Of Irene J. Winter
First Statement of Responsibility
/ by her students
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
; edited by Jack Cheng, Marian H. Feldman.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Leiden; Boston
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
: Brill
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2007.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xii, 521 p. :
Other Physical Details
: ill.
SERIES
Series Title
Culture and history of the ancient Near East, 1566-2055
Volume Designation
; v. 26
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Code E.Book: 1919
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Index
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.