The mythology of kingship in Neo-Assyrian art /
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2010]
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| ISBN: | 9780521517904 (hbk.) 0521517907 (hbk.) |
Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Human and animal ontology in the Neo-Assyrian Palace Reliefs
- Ashurnasirpal II
- The anatomy of death
- Libation and prostration
- River-crossing : human bodies, inflated animal skins
- The animal as tribute
- The liminality of the tributary
- Congenial contact with animals
- Tiglath-Pileser III
- The anatomy of battle
- Liminality and animal skins
- On camelback
- Of cattle and men
- Proximity, overlap, and analogy in the art of Tiglath-Pileser III
- Sargon II
- Hunt or sacrifice?
- Horse leg or human leg?
- Animals and gender
- Sennacherib
- Body and booty
- The massacres of Lachish
- The carnivore and the herbivore
- Ashurbanipal
- The hounds of Ashurbanipal
- Animal, vegetable, mineral
- pt. 2. Kingship and priesthood in the art of Ashurnasirpal II
- The king, non-king
- "La salle dite G"
- The mixta persona
- The king and the "sacred tree"
- The encounter
- pt. 3. The semantics of sages and Mischwesen in Assyrian art and thought
- Before the flood
- Fertilization and purification
- King the man, the King-Man
- "Tiamat's brood"
- The ancient Mesopotamian flood traditions
- Lord of the netherworld.