Animals, gods and men from East to West : papers on archaeology and history in honour of Roberta Venco Ricciardi /

Animals, gods and men from East to West : papers on archaeology and history in honour of Roberta Venco Ricciardi /

The 21 articles collected in this commemorative volume centre on animals in relation to men and gods.

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Other Authors: Peruzzetto, Alessandra., Dorna Metzger, Francesca., Dirven, Lucinda., Ricciardi, Roberta Venco.

Format: Book

Language: English
French

Series: BAR international series ; 2516.

Subjects:

Animals > Religious aspects > History.
Animals in art.
Art and religion.

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Call Number: BL439 .A55 2013

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Table of Contents:
  • Roberta Venco Ricciardi: a life with the past / Alessandra Peruzzetto, Francesca Dorna Metzger, Lucinda Dirven
  • Bibliography of Roberta Venco Ricciardi
  • Ancient Near East and Iran. Snakes on pottery / Stefano Valentini
  • A flask from the tomb of Mulissu-Mukannishat-Ninua in Nimrud / Muayad Said Damerji
  • Hybrid creatures (part human, part animal) in ancient Mesopotamia / Hikmat Basheer al-Aswad
  • La cigogne, la chèvre et les renards / Olivier Lecomte & Marjan Mashkour
  • Transformation of near eastern animal motifs in Murghabo-Bactrian Bronze Age art / Sylvia Winkelmann
  • Ancient and classical Greek world. The bull's head symbol from the Tel Haror fragment to the Linear B writing / Anna Margherita Jasink
  • Tile stamps depicting a frog on the roof tiles of Selinus (Sicily) / Maria Clara Conti
  • A female figure with swan in the Camillo Leone Museum in Vercelli / Rosina Leone
  • Hellenistic, Parthian and Sasanian. Héraclès, l'anguipède et le géant. Le médaillon (emblêma) de Termez : un nouvel épisode de gigantomachie / Pierre Leriche
  • Weasels and calves. Animals and onomastics from Qaryatain to the Euphrates / Jean-Baptiste Yon
  • Rams, stags and crosses from Sasanian Iraq: elements of a shared visual vocabulary from Late Antiquity / St John Simpson
  • Devilish apparitions in Mesopotamian incantation bowls. Preliminary remarks about demons in the guise of animals / Marco Moriggi
  • Terracott animal figurines from Veh Ardashi (Coche) in the collection of the Museo Civico d'Arte Antica e Palazzo Madama (Torino) / Alessandra Cellerino & Vito Messina
  • Hatra. Animal remains at Hatra, City of the Sun. First archaeozoological evidence for the Parthian period / Marjan Mashkour & Alessandra Peruzzetto
  • A goddess with dogs from Hatra / Lucinda Dirven
  • The fish of Allat at Hatra / Ted Kaizer
  • Griffins in the architectural decoration at Hatra / Francesca Dorna Metzger & Monica Girardi
  • A gazelle pendant from Hatra. A comparative analysis / Enrico Foietta & Ilaria Bucci
  • Scriptorial evidence of scratched inscriptions from Building A in Hatra / Roberto Bertolino
  • Miscellaneous. Lambs and the tradition of the palium / Neda Parmegiani
  • The fantastic world of Munʼim Furat, Iraqi sculptor / Roberto Parapetti & Aysar Akrawi.