Losing One's Head in the Ancient Near East

Losing One's Head in the Ancient Near East

Interpretation and Meaning of Decapitation

Dolce, Rita

Taylor & Francis Ltd

12/2017

92

Dura

Inglês

9781138067486

15 a 20 dias

360

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List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgements

Image Credits

Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter I

I.1. From the Distant Past to the Recent Past

I.2. An Unrepeatable Act

I.3. The Headless Body: Anonymity/Identity

Chapter II

II.1. Exclusivity/Multiplicity

II.2. Exhibition/Quantification

Chapter III

III.1. What Happens to the "Coveted Object"?

III.2. Destinations/Motivations

III.3. Exhibition and Multivalence

Chapter IV

IV.1. Severed Heads and Birds of Prey

IV.2. Eannatum of Lagash and the Birds of Prey

IV.3. Mari and the Birds of Prey

IV.4. Sargon I of Akkad and the Birds of Prey

IV.5. Dadusha of Eshnunna and the Birds of Prey

IV.6. The Assyrians and the Birds of Prey

Chapter V

V.1. Moving Through Space and Time

V.2. How Does the Head Travel?

Chapter VI

VI.1. "Other" Decapitations in Times of War

VI.2. What Happens to the Severed Heads of Statues?

VI.3. Moving Through Space and Time

VI.4. Annihilation/Catharsis

Bibliography

Index
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Millennium Bc;South West Palace;decapitation in the ancient near east;Held;mesopotamian art;Coveted Object;mesopotamian iconography;Eighth Century Bc;ancient syrian art;Ninth Century Bc;ancient syrian iconography;Early Dynastic;pre-classical Near East;Neo-Assyrian Reliefs;Anatolian art;Conferring;Anatolian iconography;Neo-Assyrian Period;ancient syria;Ashurnasirpal II;ancient mesopotamia;Til Barsip;ancient anatolia;North West Palace;war in the ancient near east;PPNB;ancient warfare;North Palace;ancient near eastern warfare;Proto-Historical Period;war in ancient mesopotamia;Scribes;war in ancient syria;North;war in ancient anatolia;Mid-third Millennium Bc;Neo-Assyrian iconography;Eighteenth Century Bc;capital punishment in the ancient near east;Central Palace;Neo-Assyrian art;Thirteenth Century Bc;capital punishment in the ancient world;Early Dynastic Mesopotamia;Tiglathpileser I;Oversized Heads;Assurnasirpal II;Cylinder Seal Impression;art from ebla;art from mari;Amorrite Mari;Balawat gate;Salmanasar III;gardens of Niniveh;palace of Assurbanipal;stele of Dadusha;stele of Eannatum of Lagash;Royal Archives of ebla;statue of the ensi Enmetena