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The Physicality of the Other : Masks from the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Berlejung, Angelika.
Contributor:
Filitz, Judith E.
Universität Leipzig (1991- ). Institut für Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft.
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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