Author: Leon LegrainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The stela of the flying angels
Author: Leon LegrainThe "Ur-Nammu" Stela
Author: Jeanny Vorys CanbyPublisher: UPenn Museum of Archaeology
ISBN: 9781931707893
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Ur-Nammu was king of Ur in ancient Mesopotamia (southern Iraq) around 2000 B.C. In 1925 a joint expedition from the University of Pennsylvania Museum and the British Museum discovered dozens of fragments of a monument in honor of Ur-Nammu. Because such works have rarely survived, the stela became one of the most famous examples of Near Eastern art, a status it retains today. The stela had been ten feet high with registers in relief of scenes of religious practices on both front and back. By 1927 the best pieces had been restored in Philadelphia into an imagined version of the stela, with plaster filling the gaps. But more than twice as many small or worn pieces were omitted from the restoration and dutifully stored in boxes at the Museum. Jeanny Vorys Canby realized that the early reconstruction had been too hasty, and her meticulous, painstaking reexamination reveals a wealth of new scenes that revise our understanding of the monument. This book includes the justification of the reconstructions, description of the scenes, speculation on the ancient fate of the stela, as well as a description of each piece with photograph and drawing. These vigorous, innovative scenes contradict the long-held view from the old reconstruction that the monument was dull and repetitive. In fact, it is fresh and vibrant, with dynamic scenes peopled by beautifully sculpted actors. Entirely new evidence is presented here in scientific detail, including appendices from Steven Tinney, of the Museum's Babylonian Section, and Tamsen Fuller, conservationist. The book's conclusions will be of major significance to historians, archaeologists, art historians, biblical scholars, and anthropologists working in the ancient Near East and to scholars concerned with institutions of kinship, religion, and everyday life. University Museum Monograph, 110
The World's Oldest Literature
Author: William W. HalloPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004173811
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 801
Book Description
Literature begins at Sumer, we may say. Given that this ancient crossroads of tin and copper produced not only bronze and the entire Bronze Age, but also by neccesity, the first system of record-keeping and the technique of writing. Scribal schools served to propogate the new technique and their curriculum grew to create, preserve and transmit all manner of creative poetry. In a lifetime of research, the author has studied multiple aspects of this most ancient literary oeuvre, including such questions as chronology and bilingualism, as well as contributing fundamental insights into specific genres such as proverbs, letter-prayers and lamentations. In addition, he has drawn conclusions for the comparative or contextual approach to biblical literature. His studies, widely scattered in diverse publications for nearly fifty years, are here assembled in convenient one-volume format, made more user-friendly by extensive cross-references and indices.
The Flying Angels
Author: Magdolene JacobPublisher:
ISBN: 9781934696439
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The Museum Journal
Author: University of Pennsylvania. University MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
Art of the First Cities
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588390438
Category : Art, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Catalog of an exhibition being held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from May 8 to Aug. 17, 2003.
The flying angels. 1
Author: Flying angels6 ICAANE
Author: Paolo MatthiaePublisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN: 9783447061759
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description
.".. 6th International Congress of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East held in Rome on May 5th-10th, 2008 (www.6icaane.it)"--Foreword.
American Anthropologist
Author: Gudea's Temple Building
Author: SuterPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004496270
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Gudea of Lagash, who ruled at the end of the third millennium B.C., wanted to be remembered as a temple builder. An extensive narrative inscribed on two huge clay cylinders, one of the longest and best preserved Sumerian texts, recounts his construction of the temple of Ningirsu, Lagash's patron deity. More than sixty sculpted limestone fragments belong to several stelae erected in the temples Gudea built and depict their construction. A large number of inscribed and often sculpted, artifacts provide additional information on Gudea's activities. This study treats this visual and textual material as a coherent corpus for the first time. It analyses contents, narrative structure, composition and message. Text and image are compared to elucidate the characteristics of each medium and to arrive at a comprehensive picture of the royal rhetoric of the time. The book includes a catalogue of all artifacts, and a translation of selected text passages.