Architecture, iconography, and text : new studies on the Northwest palace reliefs of Ashurnasirpal II / edited by J. Caleb Howard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Howard, J. Caleb, editor.

Series:

Orbis biblicus et orientalis ; 301.

Orbis biblicus et orientalis, 1015-1850 ; 301

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ashurnasirpal II, King of Assyria, active 885 B.C.-860 B.C.

Ashurnasirpal.

Relief (Sculpture), Assyro-Babylonian--Iraq--Calah (Extinct city).

Relief (Sculpture), Assyro-Babylonian.

Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian--Iraq--Calah (Extinct city).

Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian.

Calah (Extinct city).

Physical Description:

191 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leuven : Peeters, 2023.

Summary:

"The papers published in this volume attempt to move scholarship forward in the interpretation of the Northwest Palace reliefs of Ashurnasirpal II, with particular focus on the intersection of their architectural setting, their loaded iconography, and the text of the so-called Standard Inscription incised across their faces. The papers deal with both the interpretation of the reliefs in their ancient setting and their modern reception and heuristic use across the boundaries of disciplines. They address direct and indirect interaction of iconography and text in physical space, the roles of scribes and artisans in the production of the architecture-iconography-text ensemble, along with its impact on ancient viewers. The ensemble's impact on modern viewers, and particularly its reception in the nineteenth century, are also examined, as well as the application of its hermeneutic analysis to the study of Hebrew poetry." --Provided by publisher

Contents:

How to do things with texts: The management of space constraints on the orthostats in the Northwest Palace / J. Caleb Howard

How to do things with writing: Considerations on agency and literacy in relation to Ashurnasirpal II's reliefs from Nimrud / Nathan Morello

Images are forever: Assyrian readings of the Kalhu reliefs / Ludovico Portuese

Between science and aesthetics in the nineteenth century public museum: The Elgin marbles, the chain of art, and the Victorian assimilation of Assyrian sculpture / Karen Sonik and David Kertai

Ut pictura poesis: The historical Psalms and the reliefs from Ashurnasupal II's throneroom in the Northwest Palace at Nimrud / Brent A. Strawn

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

e-book version

ISBN:

9789042951518

9042951516

OCLC:

1401170457

Publisher Number:

9789042951518