The Material Culture of the Persian Period as a Test Case. The present volume discusses the material culture of Persian Period Palestine/Israel against the background of Ephraim Stern’s hypothesis that Judah witnessed a “religious revolution“ during the transition between the (Neo)Babylonian and the Persian period, resulting...
Le but de cet ouvrage est de donner un nouvel éclairage aux cultes aniconiques dans un Proche-Orient où, d’ordinaire, le culte des pierres en Syrie et en Anatolie est étudié séparément. L’ouvrage propose une vision synthétique des informations à disposition sur le sujet et offre...
Jewelry has always had an irresistible allure yet in the past also had a significance and function within society that went far beyond ornamentation. Jewelry is an important, if often forgotten facet of material culture. Its study is inter-disciplinary, involving archaeology, anthropology, art history, historical/textual...
Actes du collque organisé par le Collège de France, Paris, les 4-5 avril 2011. For the third year running, the chairs “Assyriology” and “Hebrew Bible and its Context” at the Collège de France (Paris) have come together to discuss questions of prophecy from a variety of...
Eine problemgeschichtliche Einführung in ägyptologische Bild-Anthropologie. In bildanthropologischer Perspektive prägten die altägyptische Bildproduktion und -rezeption besonders (a) der kulturelle Umgang mit dem Tod, (b) der Bezug auf die Götterwelt und (c) die Inszenierung von Herrschaft. Alle drei Funktionen der Bildlichkeit waren in der altägyptischen Kultur eng...
Ishtar - Astarte - Aphrodite. This book deals with the changing nature of the goddess Ishtar/Astarte/Aphrodite, who was widely revered in the ancient West Asia and the Mediterranean world and was known by different names. Although the three names are often closely related, their mutual relation...
Royal Apotheosis in a Most Concise Book of the Underworld and Sky. Among the many scenes and texts that occur for the first time in the Nineteenth Dynasty cenotaph of Seti I at Abydos is a representation of the awakening of Osiris by Horus, which appears...
Ausgangspunkt dieser Abhandlung sind die auf Grund ihrer Hörnerkrone sicher erkennbaren Götter der jüngeren frühdynastischen Zeit. Vorläufer dieser Götterdarstellungen im älteren Bildrepertoire zu identifizieren ist schwierig, da eine Abgrenzung gegenüber menschlichen Darstellungen kaum mit Sicherheit vorzunehmen ist. Ob Bankett- und Kampfszenen ‚mythologisch‘ zu deuten sind,...
An integral part of Garments of the Gods (OBO 218, 2006), this volume offers the transliteration, translation and selected copies of over 600 administrative documents on the textile industry in the Ebabbar temple at Neo-Babylonian Sippar. The documents are mostly divided in accordance with the...
On Divine Powers, Roles, Relationships and Gender in Mesopotamian Textual and Visual Sources. Goddesses in Context examines from different perspectives some of the most challenging themes in Mesopotamian religion such as gender switch of deities and changes of the status, roles and functions of goddesses. The authors...