Table of Contents
List of Contributors
List of Illustrations
Editors' Note
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Introduction
I. Defining the Field
2. Archaeology and Politics in Iraq - Lamia al-Gailani Werr
3. Forgeries of Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts and Cultures - Oscar Muscarella
4. Beyond the East-West Dichotomy in Syrian and Levantine Wall Paintings - Constance von Ruden
5. Orientalism and Orientalization in the Iron Age Mediterranean - Ann C. Gunter
II. Technologies and Practices of Artistic Production
6. The Historiography of the Concept of Workshop in Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology: Descriptive Models and Theoretical Approaches (Anthropology vs. Art History) - Silvana Di Paolo
7. The Impact of the Portable: Integrating Minor Arts into the Ancient Near Eastern Canon - Allison Karmel Thomason
8. The Influence of the Physical Medium on the Decoration of a Work of Art: A Case Study of the Phoenician Bowls - Francesca Onnis
9. Impressions of the Contest Scene: Glyptic Imagery and Sealing Practice in the Akkadian Period - Yelena Rakic
10. Histories of Cypriot Art through Seal Carving - Joanna S. Smith
III. Text and Image
11. Relating Image and Word in Ancient Mesopotamia - Cory D. Crawford
12. Pictorial Mythology and Narrative in the Ancient Near East - Karen Sonik
13. Art's Role in the Origins of Writing: The Seal-Carver, the Scribe, and the Earliest Lexical Texts - Jennifer C. Ross
14. Posthumous Images and the Memory of the Akkadian Kings - Melissa Eppihimer
15. Styles of Pictorial Narratives in Assurbanipal's Reliefs - Chikako E. Watanabe
IV. Social Identities
16. Sexuality, Reproduction and Gender in Terracotta Plaques from the Late Third-Early Second Millennia BCE - Sarah B. Graff
17. Images and Conceptions of Ideal Feminine Beauty in Neo-Assyrian Royal Contexts, c. 883-627 BCE - Amy Rebecca Gansell
18. Uniforms and Non-Conformists: Tensions and Trends in Early Dynastic Fashion - Aubrey Baadsgaard
19. Terracotta Figurines and Social Identities in Hellenistic Babylonia - Stephanie Langin-Hooper
20. The Impressed Image: Glyptic Studies as Art and Social History - Mark B. Garrison
21. Culture on Display: Representations of Ethnicity in the Art of the Late Assyrian State - Brian A. Brown
V. Religion, Ritual and Politics
22. Human, Divine or Both? The Uruk Vase and the Problem of Ambiguity in Early Mesopotamian Visual Arts - Claudia E. Suter
23. A Silent Message: Godlike Kings in Mesopotamian Art - Tallay Ornan
24. When the Subject is the Object: Relational Ontologies, the Partible Person and Images of Naram-Sin - Anne Porter
25. Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Violence: Warfare in Neo-Assyrian Art - Paul Collins
26. The Tell Asmar Hoard and Rituals of Early Dynastic Sculpture - Jean M. Evans
VI. Making and Defining Space
27. A Feast for the Eyes: Depiction and Performance of Ritual within the Sacred Space of Middle Bronze Age Ebla - Alice A. Petty
28. The Art of Building a Late Assyrian Royal Palace - David Kertai
29. The Assyrian Landscape as Ritual - Ann Shafer
30. Aesthetics of the Natural Environment in the Arts of the Ancient Near East: The Elamite Rock-Cut Sanctuary of Kurangun - Javier Alvarez-Mon
31. Art of the Achaemenid Empire, and Art in the Achaemenid Empire - Henry P. Colburn
