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Author : Mehmet-Ali Ataç
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521517904
In this book, Mehmet-Ali Ataç argues that the palace reliefs of the Neo-Assyrian Empire hold a meaning deeper than simple imperial propaganda.
Author : Mehmet-Ali Ataç
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107154957
Far from being a Judeo-Christian invention, apocalyptic thought had its roots in the ancient Near East and was expressed in its art.
Author : Ada Cohen,Steven E. Kangas
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781584658177
An insider's look at the iconography and history of Assyrian reliefs and the West's fascination with these ancient monuments
Author : Mattias Karlsson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614516910
This volume examines the state ideology of Assyria in the Early Neo-Assyrian period (934-745 BCE) focusing on how power relations between the Mesopotamian deities, the Assyrian king, and foreign lands are described and depicted. It undertakes a close reading of delimited royal inscriptions and iconography making use of postcolonial and gender theory, and addresses such topics as royal deification, “religious imperialism”, ethnicity and empire, and gendered imagery. The important contribution of this study lies especially in its identification of patterns of ideological continuity and variation within the reigns of individual rulers, between various localities, and between the different rulers of this period, and in its discussion of the place of Early Neo-Assyrian state ideology in the overall development of Assyrian propaganda. It includes several indexed appendices, which list all primary sources, present all divine and royal epithets, and provide all of the “royal visual representations,” and incorporates numerous illustrations, such as maps, plans, and royal iconography.
Author : Sarah C. Melville
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806156835
Backed by an unparalleled military force, Sargon II outwitted and outfought powerful competitors to extend Assyrian territory and secure his throne. As Sarah C. Melville shows through a detailed analysis of each of his campaigns, the king used his army not just to conquer but also to ensure regional security, manage his empire’s resources, and support his political agenda. Under his leadership, skilled chariotry, cavalry, and infantry excelled in all types of terrain against an array of culturally diverse enemies. This book represents the first in-depth military study of the great Assyrian king. Drawing extensively from original sources, including cuneiform inscriptions, the letters of Sargon and his officials, archival documents, and monumental art, Melville presents Sargon’s achievements as king, diplomat, and conqueror. Contrary to the stereotype of the brutal Assyrian despot, Sargon applied force selectively, with deliberate economy, and as only one of several possible ways to deal with external threat or to exploit opportunity. The Campaigns of Sargon II demonstrates how Sargon changed the geopolitical dynamics in the Near East, inspired a period of cultural florescence, established long-lasting Assyrian supremacy, and became one of the most influential kings of the ancient world.
Author : Peter Altmann
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783161581632
"In this study, Peter Altmann addresses the difficult question of why the Hebrew Bible prohibits consumption of certain birds by placing these birds within the overall appearance of birds in the archaeology, texts, and iconography of the Ancient Near East and within the Bible itself."--
Author : Krzysztof Ulanowski
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9789004429390
Neo-Assyrian and Greek Divination in War is about practices which enabled humans contact the divine. These relations, especially in difficult times of military conflict, could be crucial in deciding the fate of individuals, cities, dynasties or even empires.
Author : Melissa Eppihimer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780190903015
Expansion and revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Harvard University, 2009, under the title: The visual legacy of Akkadian kingship.
Author : Luis Robert Siddall
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004256149
In The Reign of Adad-nīrārī III, Luis Siddall examines the evidence and edits new inscriptions from the king’s reign to investigate the chronology, campaigns, imperial administration and royal ideology of the period. While historians have typically viewed this period as one of turmoil, imperial recession, political weakness and decentralisation, Siddall shows that Adad-nīrārī’s reign marked a period of imperial stability, chiefly through changes to the administration. However, while politically successful, the imperial policy affected the king’s ideological expression, particularly in terms of the description of the campaigns in Adad-nīrārī's inscriptions and his limited use of royal titles. "Scholars working on the Neo-Assyrian period cannot afford to miss Siddall's fresh assessment of the evidence for Adad-nirari's reign. He offers a re-evaluation of several texts but perhaps more importantly, he proposes a few methodological innovations that shed new light on the history of Assyria in the 9th century." Bill T. Arnold (Asbury Theological Seminary)
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004366374
The essays in this Festschrift for William Ian Miller reflect the honorand's wide-ranging interest in legal history, Icelandic sagas, anger and violence, and contemporary popular culture.
Author : T. A. Madhloom
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Art, Assyrian
ISBN : UCSC:32106016437425
Author : Ann C. Gunter
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118336731
Provides a broad view of the history and current state of scholarship on the art of the ancient Near East This book covers the aesthetic traditions of Mesopotamia, Iran, Anatolia, and the Levant, from Neolithic times to the end of the Achaemenid Persian Empire around 330 BCE. It describes and examines the field from a variety of critical perspectives: across approaches and interpretive frameworks, key explanatory concepts, materials and selected media and formats, and zones of interaction. This important work also addresses both traditional and emerging categories of material, intellectual perspectives, and research priorities. The book covers geography and chronology, context and setting, medium and scale, while acknowledging the diversity of regional and cultural traditions and the uneven survival of evidence. Part One of the book considers the methodologies and approaches that the field has drawn on and refined. Part Two addresses terms and concepts critical to understanding the subjects and formal characteristics of the Near Eastern material record, including the intellectual frameworks within which monuments have been approached and interpreted. Part Three surveys the field’s most distinctive and characteristic genres, with special reference to Mesopotamian art and architecture. Part Four considers involvement with artistic traditions across a broader reach, examining connections with Egypt, the Aegean, and the Mediterranean. And finally, Part Five addresses intersections with the closely allied discipline of archaeology and the institutional stewardship of cultural heritage in the modern Middle East. Told from multiple perspectives, A Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Art is an enlightening, must-have book for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of ancient Near East art and Near East history as well as those interested in history and art history.
Author : Irving Finkel
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789696080
'In Context: the Reade Festschrift' is a collection of invited and peer-reviewed essays by friends and colleagues of Julian Edgeworth Reade, sometime Mesopotamia curator at the British Museum from 1975 to 2000. Here is fresh work from which any reader can gain a new appreciation of the importance of the ancient Near East.
Author : Brian A. Brown,Marian H. Feldman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781614510352
This volume assembles more than 30 articles focusing on the visual, material, and environmental arts of the Ancient Near East. Specific case studies range temporally from the fourth millennium up to the Hellenistic period and geographically from Iran to the eastern Mediterranean. Contributions apply innovative theoretical and methodological approaches to archaeological evidence and critically examine the historiography of the discipline itself. Not intended to be comprehensive, the volume instead captures a cross-section of the field of Ancient Near Eastern art history as its stands in the second decade of the twenty-first century. The volume will be of value to scholars working in the Ancient Near East as well as others interested in newer art historical and anthropological approaches to visual culture.
Author : Debra Scoggins Ballentine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199370269
There are many ancient West Asian stories that narrate the victory of a warrior deity over an enemy, typically a sea-god or sea dragon, and his rise to divine kingship. In The Conflict Myth and the Biblical Tradition, Debra Scoggins Ballentine analyzes this motif, arguing that it was used within ancient political and socio-religious discourses to bolster particular divine hierarchies, kings, institutions, and groups, as well as to attack others. Situating her study of the conflict topos within contemporary theorizations of myth by Bruce Lincoln, Russell McCutcheon, and Jonathan Z. Smith, Ballentine examines narratives of divine combat and instances of this conflict motif. Her study cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries as well as constructed time periods, focusing not only on the Hebrew Bible but also incorporating Mesopotamian, early Jewish, early Christian, and rabbinic texts, spanning a period of almost three millennia - from the eighteenth century BCE to the early middle ages CE. The Conflict Myth and the Biblical Tradition advances our understanding of the conflict topos in ancient west Asian and early Jewish and Christian literatures and of how mythological and religious ideas are used both to validate and render normative particular ideologies and socio-political arrangements, and to delegitimize and invalidate others.
