Styles of Pictorial Narratives in Assurbanipal’s Reliefs

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgements v
3. Contents vii
4. Contributors xi
5. List of Illustrations xix
6. Editor's Note. Maps xxvii
7. Introduction 1
8. I. Defining the Field
9. Archaeology and Politics in Iraq 15
10. Forgeries of Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts and Cultures 31
11. Beyond the East-West Dichotomy in Syrian and Levantine Wall Paintings 55
12. Orientalism and Orientalization in the Iron Age Mediterranean 79
13. II. Technologies and Practices of Artistic Production
14. The Historiography of the Concept of “Workshop” in Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology: Descriptive Models and Theoretical Approaches (Anthropology vs. Art History) 111
15. The Impact of the “Portable”: Integrating “Minor Arts” into the Ancient Near Eastern Canon 133
16. The Influence of the Physical Medium on the Decoration of a Work of Art: A Case Study of the “Phoenician” Bowls 159
17. Impressions of the Contest Scene: Glyptic Imagery and Sealing Practice in the Akkadian Period 185
18. Histories of Cypriot Art through Seal Carving 205
19. III. Text and Image
20. Relating Image and Word in Ancient Mesopotamia 241
21. Pictorial Mythology and Narrative in the Ancient Near East 265
22. Art’s Role in the Origins of Writing: The Seal-Carver, the Scribe, and the Earliest Lexical Texts 295
23. Posthumous Images and the Memory of the Akkadian Kings 319
24. Styles of Pictorial Narratives in Assurbanipal’s Reliefs 345
25. IV. Social Identities
26. Sexuality, Reproduction and Gender in Terracotta Plaques from the Late Third-Early Second Millennia BCE 371
27. Images and Conceptions of Ideal Feminine Beauty in Neo-Assyrian Royal Contexts, c. 883–627 BCE 391
28. Uniforms and Non-Conformists: Tensions and Trends in Early Dynastic Fashion 421
29. Terracotta Figurines and Social Identities in Hellenistic Babylonia 451
30. ` The Impressed Image: Glyptic Studies as Art and Social History 481
31. Culture on Display: Representations of Ethnicity in the Art of the Late Assyrian State 515
32. V. Religion, Ritual and Politics
33. Human, Divine or Both? The Uruk Vase and the Problem of Ambiguity in Early Mesopotamian Visual Arts 545
34. A Silent Message: Godlike Kings in Mesopotamian Art 569
35. When the Subject is the Object: Relational Ontologies, the Partible Person and Images of Naram-Sin 597
36. Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Violence: Warfare in Neo-Assyrian Art 619
37. The Tell Asmar Hoard and Rituals of Early Dynastic Sculpture 645
38. VI. Making and Defining Space
39. A Feast for the Eyes: Depiction and Performance of Ritual within the Sacred Space of Middle Bronze Age Ebla 669
40. The Art of Building a Late Assyrian Royal Palace 689
41. The Assyrian Landscape as Ritual 713
42. Aesthetics of the Natural Environment in the Arts of the Ancient Near East: The Elamite Rock-Cut Sanctuary of Kurangun 741
43. Art of the Achaemenid Empire, and Art in the Achaemenid Empire 773
44. Index 801