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Book Synopsis‘Moving on from Ebla, I crossed the Euphrates’ collects six articles by leading international scholars on the culture of the Assyrian world as a homage to Paolo Matthiae on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Paolo Matthiae is known internationally for the discovery of the site of ancient Ebla in Syria, but he also wrote groundbreaking books and scientific contributions about the Assyrians, predominantly from an art historical perspective. The articles deal with different aspects of this culture, with innovative and sometimes unexpected points of view, including the reception of some elements of the Assyrian culture in the contemporary world.
Table of ContentsForeword –
Davide Nadali, Lorenzo Nigro and Frances Pinnock ;
Publications on Assyria –
Paolo Matthiae ;
The Progress of Research on the Sculptures of Ashurbanipal –
Julian Edgeworth Reade ;
La réception des Assyriens, avant et après l’invention pionnière de Khorsabad par Paul-Emile Botta –
Ariane Thomas ;
The Architectural in Betweenness of Assyrian Reliefs: On Cues and Settings of Architectural Decoration –
David Kertai ;
Assyria, Where Are You? A Striking Gap in the Reception of the Ancient Near East in Western Popular Culture –
Dominik Bonatz ;
‘I opened eight gates’: Revisiting the Identification of Dūr-Šarrukīn’s City Gates –
Jamie Novotny ;
Masculinity and the Hunt in the State Arts of the Assyrian Empire –
Omar N’Shea
