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Book SynopsisThis volume of collected essays brings together for the first time the range of Winter’s pioneering studies related to Neo-Assyrian relief sculpture and seals, Phoenician and Syrian ivory and bronze production, and inter-polity connections across the various cultures of first millennium B.C.E. from the Aegean to Iran. Consistent threads are an emphasis on the potential for art historical analysis to yield ‘history’ in the broadest sense; the importance of making the theoretical frame of interpretation explicit; and the necessity of textual evidence being brought to bear upon elements of formal analysis and archaeological context. "These beautifully produced volumes bring together essays written over a 35-year period, creating a whole that is much more than the sum of its parts...No library should be without this impressive collection." J.C. Exum
Table of ContentsTHE ASSYRIAN PALACE AND RELIEF CARVING Chapter One: Royal Rhetoric and the Development of Historical Narrative in Neo-Assyrian Reliefs Chapter Two: Art in Empire: The Royal Image and the Visual Dimensions of Assyrian Ideology Chapter Three: Le Palais imaginaire: Scale and Meaning in the Iconography of Neo-Assyrian Cylinder Seals Chapter Four: Ornament and the “Rhetoric of Abundance” in Assyria BRONZE AND IVORY/LUXURY GOODS Chapter Five: Phoenician and North Syrian Ivory Carving in Historical Context: Questions of Style and Distribution Chapter Six: Carved Ivory Furniture Panels from Nimrud: A Coherent Subgroup of the North Syrian Style Chapter Seven; Is There a South Syrian Style of Ivory Carving in the Early First Millennium b.c.? Chapter Eight: North Syria as a Bronzeworking Centre in the Early First Millennium b.c.: Luxury Commodities at Home and Abroad Chapter Nine: North Syrian Ivories and Tell Halaf Reliefs: The Impact of Luxury Goods upon “Major” Arts Chapter Ten: Establishing Group Boundaries: Toward Methodological Refinement in the Determination of Sets as a Prior Condition to the Analysis of Cultural Contact and/or Innovation in First Millennium b.c.e. Ivory Carving INTERACTIONS OF TIME AND SPACE Chapter Eleven: Perspective on the “Local Style” of Hasanlu IVB: A Study in Receptivity Chapter Twelve: On the Problems of Karatepe: The Reliefs and Their Context Chapter Thirteen: Art as Evidence for Interaction: Relations between the Assyrian Empire and North Syria Chapter Fourteen: Carchemish ša kišad puratti Chapter Fifteen: Homer’s Phoenicians: History, Ethnography, or Literary Trope? [A Perspective on Early Orientalism]
