On the art in the ancient Near East /

On the art in the ancient Near East /

This volume of collected essays brings together for the first time the range of Winter's pioneering studies related to Neo-Assyrian relief sculpture and seals, Phoenician and Syrian ivory and bronze production, and inter-polity connections across the various cultures of first millennium B.C.E....

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Other Authors: Winter, Irene.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2010.

Series: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East; volume34/1.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2009, ISBN: 9789004222724.

Subjects:

Art, Ancient > Middle East.
Sculpture, Ancient > Middle East.
Visual communication > Middle East > History > To 1500.
Social archaeology > Middle East.
Middle East > Antiquities.

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Call Number: DS56 .O5 2010

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Materials /
  • I.J. Winter
  • Chapter One. Royal Rhetoric And The Development Of Historical Narrative In Neo-Assyrian Reliefs /
  • I.J. Winter
  • Chapter Two. Art In Empire: The Royal Image And The Visual Dimensions Of Assyrian Ideology /
  • I.J. Winter
  • Chapter Three. Le Palais Imaginaire: Scale And Meaning In The Iconography Of Neo-Assyrian Cylinder Seals /
  • I.J. Winter
  • Chapter Four. Ornament And The "Rhetoric Of Abundance" In Assyria /
  • I.J. Winter
  • Chapter Five. Phoenician And North Syrian Ivory Carving In Historical Context: Questions Of Style And Distribution /
  • I.J. Winter
  • Chapter Six. Carved Ivory Furniture Panels From Nimrud: A Coherent Subgroup Of The North Syrian Style /
  • I.J. Winter
  • Chapter Seven. Is There A South Syrian Style Of Ivory Carving In The Early First Millennium B.C.? /
  • I.J. Winter
  • Chapter Eight. North Syria As A Bronzeworking Centre In The Early First Millennium B.C.: Luxury Commodities At Home And Abroad /
  • I.J. Winter
  • Chapter Nine. North Syrian Ivories And Tell Halaf Reliefs: The Impact Of Luxury Goods Upon "Major" Arts /
  • I.J. Winter
  • Chapter Ten. Establishing Group Boundaries: Toward Methodological Refinement In The Determination Of Sets As A Prior Condition To The Analysis Of Cultural Contact And/Or Innovation In First Millennium B.C.E. Ivory Carving /
  • I.J. Winter
  • Chapter Eleven. Perspective On The "Local Style" Of Hasanlu Ivb: A Study In Receptivity /
  • I.J. Winter
  • Chapter Twelve. On The Problems Of Karatepe: The Reliefs And Their Context /
  • I.J. Winter
  • Chapter Thirteen. Art As Evidence For Interaction: Relations Between The Assyrian Empire And North Syria /
  • I.J. Winter
  • Chapter Fourteen. Carchemish Ša Kišad Puratti /
  • I.J. Winter
  • Chapter Fifteen. Homer'S Phoenicians: History, Ethnography, Or Literary Trope? [A Perspective On Early Orientalism] /
  • I.J. Winter.