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The Physicality of the Other : Masks from the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berlejung, Angelika.
- Series:
- Orientalische Religionen in der Antike
- Orientalische Religionen in der Antike ; v.27
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (582 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Physicality of the Other
- Place of Publication:
- Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2021.
- Language Note:
- 12 English, 5 German contributions.
- Summary:
- Der vorliegende Band enthält die Tagungsberichte der internationalen und interdisziplinären Sitzung in Leipzig vom 9.-11.11.2015, bei der Masken aus Ägypten, Israel/Palästina, Syrien, Mesopotamien, Phönizien, Zypern und Griechenland, zumeist aus dem 3. bis 1. Jahrtausend v.Chr., präsentiert wurden.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- I. Introductory Considerations
- JUDITH E. FILITZ - Of Masks and Men. Thoughts on Masks from Different Perspectives
- ALFRED SCHÄFER - Zwischenwelten. Maskenauftritte im Egungu/Kutito-Geheimbund
- II. Masks in Egypt
- RENÉE F. FRIEDMAN - Masking in Early Egypt. A View from Hierakonpolis
- ALEXANDRA VON LIEVEN - Can Deities Be Impersonated? The Question of Use of Masks in Ancient Egyptian Rituals
- ASJA MÜLLER - Masking the Dead in Roman Egypt
- III. Masks in the Southern Levant
- IZAK CORNELIUS - The "Face of Death" and the "Face of Baal"? Masks from the Stone Age and Bronze Age
- ITZHAQ SHAI - Two Late Bronze Age Ceramic Masks from Tel Burna, Israel
- ANGELIKA BERLEJUNG - Masks in the Old Testament? Masks in Ancient Palestine/Israel!
- EPHRAIM STERN - Iron Age-Persian Masks and Protomes from Tel Dor
- IV. Masks in Syria and Mesopotamia
- JULIANE STEIN - Spätbronzezeitliche Masken aus Nordsyrien
- CLAUDIA BEUGER - Maskerade im 1. Jt. v. Chr. in Mesopotamien
- TAKAYOSHI OSHIMA - The King's Godly Image as the Perfect Physiognomy of the Holder of the Kingship. Royal Ideology in the Neo-Assyrian Period
- V. Masks on Their Way to Europe
- ADRIANO ORSINGHER - Ritualized Faces. The Masks of the Phoenicians
- ERIN WALCEK AVERETT - Playing the Part. Masks and Ritual Performance in Rural Sanctuaries in Iron Age Cyprus
- ANGELIKI VARAKIS - Encountering the Heroic prosopeion in Fifth Century Theatre Performance
- DANIEL DOST - ,Quid sibi personae volunt?' Erkundungen im Schnittfeld von lateinisch persona und etruskisch phersu
- VI. Appendix: Katalog/Catalogue.
- ANGELIKA BERLEJUNG unter Mitarbeit von SUSANNE KOHLHAAS und JULIANE STEIN - Katalog der anthropomorphen Masken der südlichen Levante vom präkeramischen Neolithikum B bis zum Beginn der hellenistischen Zeit (9. Jt. - 4. Jh. v. Chr.)
- Indices
- Index of Ancient Texts
- Index of Names of Ancient Persons and Figures
- Index of Places
- Index of Subjects.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 3-16-160605-1
- OCLC:
- 1252420052
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