Art and Immortality in the Ancient Near East
Author:   Mehmet-Ali Ataç (Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781107154957


Pages:   298
Publication Date:   08 March 2018
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Mehmet-Ali Ataç (Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 26.00cm
Weight:   0.810kg
ISBN:  

9781107154957


ISBN 10:   1107154952
Pages:   298
Publication Date:   08 March 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction; 1. The 'investiture' painting from Mari; 2. The iconographic analysis of the Mari painting; 3. The flood myth as paradigm; 4. The semantics of the frame of running spirals; 5. Implications of sacral time and eschatology; 6. The royal destiny: the 'garden scene' of Ashurbanipal revisited.

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Mehmet-Ali Ataç studied architecture, art history, and archaeology, earning his Ph.D. from Harvard Unviersity, Massachusetts in 2003. He was Whiting Post-doctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Princeton University, New Jersey (2003–2004) and Hetty Goldman Member in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2010–11). From 2004 to 2015, he taught at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania. A scholar of the art of the ancient Near East, he is the author of The Mythology of Kingship in Neo-Assyrian Art (Cambridge, 2010).

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