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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: 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: 9781107154957ISBN 10: 1107154952 Pages: 298 Publication Date: 08 March 2018 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsIntroduction; 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.ReviewsAuthor InformationMehmet-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). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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