Art 328
Commemorative
monuments and cultural representations:
architecture and
the city in the ancient Near East
Reed College
× Spring 2005
syllabus
Classes: Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:40 to 4:00 pm. in Library 41.
Instr.: Ömür Harmansah (Library 321)
Office Hours: Fridays 9-12 am and by appointment (e-mail:
omur.harmansah@reed.edu).
This course
is a selective and analytical survey of architectural history in the ancient
Near East. Readings and discussions will focus on the development of urban and
architectural traditions in their socio-cultural and economical context. The
Near Eastern world and the variety of its archaeological landscapes will be
explored from prehistory into the Hellenistic period. Emphasis will be placed
on Southern and Northern Mesopotamia, Syria and the Central Anatolian plateau
in the Bronze and Iron Ages. In the ancient Near East, monumental buildings
were usually considered as bearers of both textual and pictorial
representations. These texts were either displayed on the architectural
surfaces of monuments, or ceremonially deposited in the foundation pits as
offerings during the construction. Such literary compositions and visual
narratives were effective tools in the construction of social identity and historical
consciousness among the public. The construction of buildings, therefore,
coincided precisely with the writing of history, offering a fundamental
challenge to their makers and their audience alike. The use of precious
building materials and innovative architectural technologies contributed the
commemorative nature of architecture. This course intends to see the production
of architectural and urban space in this light, as a social enterprise, a
festive event where the economic and cultural resources of a society are
diverted into a productive undertaking. Building projects of Near Eastern
rulers from various periods will be studied comparatively. Important lines of
inquiry in the discussions will be the idea of commemoration and historical
narratives, ideological aspects of architectural and sculptural display, and
the development and circulation of construction materials and techniques, as
well as architectural knowledge.
Books ordered through Reed Bookstore:
There may be
occasional assignments of sections from these books but the students are
expected to start reading them right away as the semester starts and our class
discussion will often touch upon them. Matthews should be read in the first
three-to-four weeks while the rest will be more extensively used throughout the
semester.
Marc van de
Mieroop; A history of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000-323 BC. Oxford and Malden: Blackwell Publishing,
2004. (Required)
Peter M.M.G.
Akkermans and Glenn M. Schwartz; The archaeology of Syria: from complex hunter-gatherers
to early urban societies (ca. 16,000-300 bc).
Cambridge World
Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. (Required)
Roger Matthews; The
archaeology of Mesopotamia: theories and approaches. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. (Recommended)
Practicalities:
Each student is required to
do the weekly readings for the course and participate in class discussions. For every meeting there will be a body of archaeological
material from the Ancient Near East and a theoretical problem, which will be
discussed analytically in reference to assigned readings.
This is a course in the
course of being constructed, so expect changes in the reading list for every
week. A hand-out will be distributed
every week on Tuesdays and those will include updates on the syllabus for the
following week (readings, discussion schedule, short assignments etc) as we
move along in the semester.
Requirements:
1. Short writing assignments
and brief class presentations: There
will be a series of short assignments spread throughout the semester. Students
will occasionally be asked to volunteer to present in class a selected critical
article or book chapter related to the overall topic of the week. The assigned
student will also guide the discussion on that reading. On the following week,
the same student will submit a 4-5 page response paper pertaining to the
problems addressed in the article and raised during the discussion. Depending on the number of students in
class, all students will present and write on 1 or 2 articles by the end of the
semester.
2. Research project: The students will choose a research topic in
collaboration with the instructor and turn it into a project. The project
should involve an analytical and critical discussion of a theoretical approach
and its application to an archaeological case study. The main aim in the
research project is the bridge the apparent gap between theoretical discussions
in archaeology and the material
evidence. The project will involve a number of a 15-20 min presentation and a
number of submissions throughout the semester (proposal, draft, final paper).
Take note of submission dates on the syllabus and start thinking about your
research project within the first three weeks of the semester.
Weekly schedule
Introduction to the course: what we will
study, how we will study. Mesopotamia and its multiple definitions of history.
Readings of interest
Winter, Irene J.; 2000c.
“Babylonian archaeologists of the(ir) Mesopotamian past,” in Proceedings of
the First International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. Paolo Matthiae et al (eds.); Università degli studi di
Roma “La Sapienza,”: Roma, 1785-1789.
Van Dyke, Ruth M. & Susan E.
Alcock; 2003. “Archaeologies of memory: an introduction,” in Archaeologies
of memory. R. M. Van Dyke & S. E.
Alcock (eds.); Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 1-13.
A environmental and historical
orientation: physical geography, natural resources, modes - structures of human
habitation, cultural landscapes, major routes of circulation. A brief overview
of what is going to be studied: the idea of the long-term development, and the
transformation of landscape with human activities.
Readings:
Postgate, J. Nicholas; 1992.
“Mesopotamia: the land and the life” in Early Mesopotamia: Society and
Economy at the dawn of history. Routledge:
London and New York, 3-21. (On reserve DS69.5 .P64 1994)
Roaf, Michael; 1996. Cultural
atlas of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East. Oxfordshire. Read pp. 18-35 in detail, skim through the
book, study maps. (On reserve: DS69.5 .R63 1990).
Akkermans and Schwartz, The
archaeology of Syria, pp. 1-13.
Black, Jeremy A.; 2002. “The
Sumerians in their landscape,” in Riches in hidden places: ancient Near
Eastern studies in memory of Thorkild Jacobsen. T. Abusch (ed.). Eisenbrauns: Winona Lake, Indiana,
41-61.
Near Eastern archaeology: the colonial
beginnings of the disciplinary field. Colonialism, antiquarianism, orientalism
and the birth of archaeology: mapping and inventing (not discovering!) ancient
landscapes, co-opting ancestral geographies, controlling the past in the Near
East. Classicizing paradigm of the 19th century discourse.
Readings
Matthews, The archaeology of
Mesopotamia. Chapters 1-2, pages 1-66.
Chapter
1. “Defining a discipline: Mesopotamian archaeology in history” pp 1-26.
Bahrani, Zainab; 1998. “Conjuring
Mesopotamia: imaginative geography and a world past,” in Archaeology under
fire: Nationalism, politics and heritage in the Eastern Mediteranean and Middle
East. L. Meskell (ed.), Routledge:
London and New York, 159-174.
Winter, Irene J.; 2002. “Defining
‘aesthetics’ for non-western studies: the case of ancient Mesopotamia,” in Art
history, aesthetics, visual studies. Micheal
Ann Holly and Keith Moxey (eds.), Clark Studies in the Visual Arts; Yale
University Press: New Haven and London, 3-28.
Presentation (Leela+Michelle)
Bohrer, Frederick N.; 2003. Orientalism
and visual culture : imagining Mesopotamia in nineteenth-century Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
(1) Introduction and Chapter 1.
“Exoticisim as system” pp.1-41.
(2) Chapter 2. “Subjects of
Nineteenth century exoticism: journeys in space and time” pp. 42-65.
Near Eastern Archaeology: approaches to
texts, material culture and social landscapes. Materiality of texts and textuality of material culture.
Readings
Matthews, The archaeology of
Mesopotamia.
Chapter
2. “Tools of the trade: scope and methods of Mesopotamian archaeology” pp.
27-66.
Zimansky, Paul; 2005. “Archaeology
and texts in the Ancient Near East” in Archaeologies of the Middle East:
critical perspectives. Reinhard Bernbeck
and Susan Pollock (eds.). Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology. Blackwell:
Malden MA, 308-326. (Reserve DS 56 A735 2005)
Meskell, Lynn and Robert W.
Pruecel; 2004. “Knowledges,”in A companion to social archaeology, 3-22. (Reserve CC72.4 .C67 2004)
Presentation (Julie)
Steadman; Sharon; 2005.
“Reliquaries on the landscape: mounds as matrices of human cognition” in Archaeologies
of the Middle East: critical perspectives. Reinhard
Bernbeck and Susan Pollock (eds.). Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology.
Blackwell: Malden MA, 286-307. (Reserve DS 56 A735 2005)
From hunter-gatherers to agriculturalists:
the early settled communities. The early Neolithic in Anatolia: Göbeklitepe and
Çatalhöyük. Animal domestication and the spaces of the symbolic animated
world-landscapes.
Readings
Matthews, The archaeology of
Mesopotamia. Chapter 3, pages 67-92.
Lewis-Williams, David; 2004.
“Constructing a cosmos: architecture, power and domestication at Çatalhöyük,” Journal
of Social Archaeology 4: 28-60.
Turnbull, David; 2002. “Performance
and narrative, bodies and movement in the construction of places and objects,
spaces and knowledges,” in Theory, Culture & Society 19: 125-143.
Presentation (Alexandra)
Last, Jonathan; 1998. “A design for
life: interpreting the art of Çatalhöyük” Journal of material culture 3: 355-378.
The archaeological problems of the later
Neolithic: Social complexity and material practices. Simplicity or complexity
on the way to urbanization? Emergent elites and craft specialization.
Readings
Wengrow, David; 1998. “The changing
face of clay: continuity and change in the transition from village to urban
life in the Near East,” Antiquity 72:
783-795. (E-reserve)
Stein, Gil; 1996.“Producers,
patrons and prestige: craft specialists and emergent elites in Mesopotamia from
5500-3100 BC,” in Craft specialization and social evolution: in memory of V.
Gordon Childe. B. Wailes (ed.). Philadelphia: The University Museum of
Archaeology and Anthropology of Pennsylvania, 25-38. (E-reserve)
Gosden, Chris and Ywonne Marshall;
1999. “Cultural biography of objects,” World Archaeology 31: 169-178. (E-reserve)
Presentation (Allie)
Wengrow, David; 2001. “The
evolution of simplicity: aesthetic labour and social change in the Neolithic
Near East,” World Archaeology 33:
168-188. (E-reserve)
State formation and the emergence of
urban societies in Southern Mesopotamia during the 4th Millennium
BC: The ceremonial nature of first urban centers; monumental temple
architecture in Ubaid sites, the Uruk urbanization. The sites of Eridu and
Uruk.
Readings:
Matthews, The archaeology of
Mesopotamia. Chapter 4, pp. 93-126.
Van de Mieroop; A history of the
Ancient Near East, Chapter 2, pp. 19-38.
Wheatley, Paul; 1971. “The nature
of the ceremonial center” in The pivot of the four quarters. University Press Edinburgh, pages 225-243. (E-reserve-
Stacks HT147 C48 W5)
Presentation (Lotus)
Van de Mieroop, Marc; “The origins
and the character of the Mesopotamian city,” in The ancient Mesopotamian
city. Oxford: Oxford university Press,
23-41. (Reserve Main DS69.5 v36 1997)
Visual representation, ideology and
aspects of ritualization. Problems of narrative, cultic performance and
representation on the “Uruk vase” and other Uruk period monuments.
Readings
Pollock, Susan; 1999. “Ideology and
images of power,” in Ancient Mesopotamia.
Cambridge 1999: pp 173-195. (Reserve
Main DS 73.1 P67 1999)
Bahrani, Zainab; 2002.
“Performativity and the image: narrative, representation and the Uruk vase,” in
Leaving no stones unturned: essays on the Ancient Near East and Egypt in honor
of Donald P. Hansen. E. Ehrenberg (ed.).
Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2002: pages 15-22. (E-reserve)
Ross,
Jennifer C.; 2005. “Representations, reality
and ideology” in Archaeologies of the Middle East: critical perspectives. Reinhard Bernbeck and Susan Pollock (eds.). Blackwell
Studies in Global Archaeology. Blackwell: Malden MA, 327-350. (Reed Lib DS 56
A735 2005)
Presentation (Megan)
Pollock, Susan and Reinhard Bernbeck; 2000. “And they said, let
us make gods in our image: gendered ideologies in ancient Mesopotamia, ” in Reading
the Body: Representations and remains in the archaeological record, Alison E. Rautman (ed.),
University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 150-164. (E-reserve)
Early Dynastic Period in Southern Mesopotamia:
the monumental temple in the urban context. Introduction to the Third
Millennium architectural traditions. Oriental Institute, Chicago excavations in
the Diyala basin. The urban character of the Third Millennium southern
Mesopotamian sites. The site of Khafajah/Khafadje (ancient Tutub): its urban
layout and brief history. The idea of the temple and ritual practices in early
Mesopotamia. Symbolisms of monumentality and imagination of cosmos in the
context of social practices.
Readings
Van de Mieroop, A History of the
Ancient Near East, Chapter 3: pp. 39-58.
Trigger, Bruce; 1990. “Monumental
architecture: a thermodynamic explanation of symbolic behaviour,” World
Archaeology 22: 119-132. (E-reserve)
Postgate, N.; 1992. Early
Mesopotamia: society and economy at the dawn of history. Routledge: New York. Chapter 6. “The temple” pp.
109-136. (Reserve Main DS 69.5 P64
1994)
Bottéro, Jean; 2001. “Mythology of
the world” in Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia, trans. T L Fagan, Chicago 2001. Pages 77-113. (Reserve
Main BL 2350 I57 B6713 2001)
The royal cemetery of Ur: burials and
funerary rituals. The symbolism of the prestige materials and skilled
craftsmenship.
Readings
Pollock, Susan; 1991. “Of
priestesses, princes and poor relations: The dead in the Royal Cemetery of Ur,”
Cambridge Archaeological Journal 1:
171-189.
Zettler, Richard L. and Lee
Horne(eds.); 1998. Treasures from the royal tombs of Ur. Philadelphia: university of Museum of Archaeology and
Anthropology. (Oversize DS70.5 U7 T7 1998). Read 21-38 and skim through the
catalogue.
Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta.
Sumerian literary composition. In: H
Vanstiphout, Epics of Sumerian Kings. Atlanta
2003.
The production of monumental art in the
third millennium BC: the stele and sculpture. Develeopment of a visual
vocabulary. Historical narratives and pictorial representation in the context
of commemorative monuments and state ideology among the archaic chiefdoms and
regional states of the Ancient Near East.
Readings
White, Hayden; 1987. “The value of
narrativity in the representation of reality,” in The content of the form:
narrative discourse and historical representation. The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore, 1-25.
(E-reserve: also Stacks D13 W564 1987)
Winter, Irene J.; 1995. “After the
battle is over: the stele of the vultures and the beginning of historical
narrative in the art of the ancient Near East”, Studies in the History of
Art. 16: 11-32. (E-reserve)
Presentation (Maya)
Hansen, Donald P.; 1992. “Royal building activity at Sumerian
Lagash in the Early Dynastic Period,” Biblical Archaeologist 55: 206-211. (E-reserve)
Royal rhetoric and the public monument in the Akkadian
kingdom: early manifestations of interregional trade and territoriality.
Mythologies and ideologies of the territorial state. The monumental stele,
annalistic texts and the ideology of conquest.
Readings
Van de Mieroop, History of the Ancient Near East, 59-69.
Winter, Irene J.; 1996. “Sex, rhetoric and the public monument:
the alluring body of Naram-Sin of Agade” in Sexuality in Ancient Art, N.B.Kampen (ed.), Cambridge: 11-26. E-reserve: Stacks N
5333 S425 1996).
Eagleton; Terry; 1991. “What is ideology?” in Ideology:
an introduction. Verso: London, 1991,
pages. 1-32. (E-reserve)
Presentation:
Westenholz, Joan Goodnick; 2000. “The king, the emperor,
and the empire: continuity and discontinuity of royal representation in text
and image,” in The heirs of Assyria: Proceedings of the opening symposium of
the assyrian and babylonian intellectual heritage project. S. Aro & R.M. Whiting (eds.); The Neo-Assyrian Text
Corpus Project, Melammu Symposia I; Helsinki: 99-125.
March 8 Tuesday
Gudea and the Second Dynasty of
Lagash: body, ritual performance, and the state spectacle: phenomenology of the
sculpted object.
Readings
Van de Mieroop, A History of the
Ancient Near East, Chapter 4: pp. 59-78.
Winter, Irene J.; 1989. “The body
of the able ruler: Toward an understanding of the statues of Gudea” in
DUMU-E2-DUB-BA-A, H. Behrens et al. (eds), Philadelphia: 573-583. (E-reserve)
Winter, Irene J.; 1992. “Idols of the King: royal images as the
recipients of ritual action in ancient Mesopotamia”, Journal of Ritual
Studies
6: 13-42. (E-reserve)
Meskell, Lynn; 2004. “On hearing,
phenomenology, and desire,” in Object worlds in ancient Egypt. Oxford: Berg, 117-146.
[Research Paper topic proposals with
preliminary bibliography due.]
Discussion of Catalhoyuk assignment
Hodder, Ian; 1992. “The Haddenham
causewayed enclosure – a hermeneutic circle” in Theory and practice in
archaeology. London: Routledge, 213-240.
(E-reserve)
New cities, new ideologies, new
architectural traditions: the Middle Bronze age urbanization in Northern
Mesopotamia. The case of early 2nd millennium Ebla, and its urban
landscape.
Readings
Akkermans and Schwartz, The
archaeology of Syria, Skim Chapter 1.
“Introduction,” pp 1-13; Read thoroghly: Chapter 9 “Regeneration of complex
societies”, pages 288-326.
Pinnock, Frances; 2001. “The urban
landscape of Old Syrian Ebla,” Journal of Cuneiform Studies 53: 13-33. (Accessible through Acedemic Search Premier
database on Reed Library webpage)
Summers, David; 2003. “Places” in Real
Spaces. London: Phaidon Press, pp.
117-137. (E-reserve).
Middle Bronze Age in Northern
Mesopotamia; nomads, trade and the problem of the Middle Euphrates. Pastoral
nomadism in the steppe and the relationship of nomads with the cities; Rowton’s
concept of enclosed nomadism. The palace at Mari and its wall paintings.
Excerpt from documentary Grass: a
nation’s battle for life.
Readings
Rowton, Michael B.; 1974. “Enclosed nomadism,” Journal of the
Economic and Social History of the Orient 17: 1-30. (E-reserve)
Buccellati, Giorgio; 1990. “River bank, highh country and
pasture land: the growth of nomadism on the Middle Euphrates and the Khabur,”
in Tell el Hamidiya 2. S. Eichler, M. Wafler, D. Warburton (eds.). Gottingen:
87-117. (E-reserve)
Fleming, Daniel E.; 2004. Democracy’s ancient ancestors: Mari
and early collective governance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (E-reserve)
Late Bronze Age in
the Anatolian Plateau; the Hittites and their empire. Sites: Bogazköy (ancient
Hattusha); Extramural open –air sanctuary at Yazılıkaya (royal cult
center). Eflatunpınar, spring sanctuary; Ortaköy (ancient Shipanuwa),
palace architecture. The idea of empires and imperial landscapes. Rock reliefs
and landscape commemoration.
Readings
Van de Mieroop, A History of the
Ancient Near East, Chapter 7: pp.
121-140 and section 8.2. “The Hittite New Kingdom” pp. 145-153.
Gorny, Ronald L.; 1989.
“Environment, archaeology and history in Hittite Anatolia,” Biblical
Archaeologist 52: 78-96. (E-reserve)
Morrison, Kathleen D; 2001.
“Sources, approaches, definitions” in Empires: perspectives from archaeology
and history, S. E. Alcock et.al. (eds.), Cambridge: 1-9. (E-reserve)
Liverani, Mario; 2005.
“Imperialism” in Archaeologies of the Middle East: critical perspectives. Reinhard Bernbeck and Susan Pollock (eds.). Blackwell
Studies in Global Archaeology. Blackwell: Malden MA, 223-243. (Reserve DS 56
A735 2005).
Late Bronze Age in the Eastern
Mediterranean; Interregional trade networks, world-systems. Ulu Burun
shipwreck. Gift-exchange and prestige technologies. The idea of tehnological
style.
Readings
Summers, David; 2003. “Facture” in Real
Spaces. London: Phaidon Press, pp.
61-86. (E-reserve).
Feldman, Marian H.; 2002.
“Luxurious forms: refining a Mediterranean ‘international style,’ 1400-1200 b.c.e.” Art Bulletin 84: 6-29. (E-reserve)
Moorey, P.R.S.; 2001. “The mobility
of artisans and opportunities for technology transfer between Western Asia and
Egypt in the Late Bronze Age,” in The social context of technological
change: Egypt and the Near East, 1650-1550 BC. Andrew J. Shortland (ed.), Oxbow Books: Oxford, pages 1-14.
Presentation (Chris)
Sherratt, Andrew and Susan
Sherratt; 2001. “Technological change in the East Mediterranean Bronze Age:
capital, resources and marketing,” in The social context of technological
change: Egypt and the Near East, 1650-1550 BC. Andrew J. Shortland (ed.), Oxbow Books: Oxford, pages 15-38.
Early Iron Age in North Syria and Southeast Anatolia; the
Syro-Hittite regional states. Ceremonial architecture of the urban space on
citadels and the temples of the Storm God. Case study: Ayn Dara and Karkamish. Natural landscapes and
social spaces. Regional identity and interregional exchange of architectural
technologies. Collective memory and ancestor cult.
Readings
Akkermans and Schwartz, The
archaeology of Syria, Chapter 11 “Iron
Age Syria”, pages 360-397.
Blake, Emma; 2004. “Space, spatiality and archaeology,”in A
companion to social archaeology, 215-229. (Reserve Main CC72.4 C67)
Bonatz,
Dominik; 2001a. “Mnemohistory in Syro-Hittite iconography,” in Historiography
in the cuneiform world. T. Abusch et.al. (eds.), CDL Press: Bethesda, Maryland, 65-77. (E-reserve)
Presentation (Arini)
Mazzoni, Stefania; 1997. “The gate
and the city: change and continuity in Syro-Hittite urban ideology,” in Die
orientalische Stadt: Kontinuität, Wandel, Bruch. G. Wilhelm (ed.), SDV Saarbrücker Druckerei und Verlag:
Saarbrücken, 307-338. (E-reserve)
Early Iron Age In Upper Mesopotamia:
Middle and Neo-Assyrian state in the Upper Tigris basin and the Jazira. Site: Nimrud (ancient Kalhu).
Foundation of new cities, and the construction of urban space with
commemorative monuments. Narrative and historical commemorations in text and
image. Stone and bronze relief programs in temple and palace complexes.
Readings
Van de Mieroop, A History of the
Ancient Near East, Chapter 12-13: pp.
216-252. (Skim)
Thomas, Julian; 1996. “Place and
temporality,” in Time culture and identity: an interpretive archaeology. Routledge: 83-91. (E-reserve)
Winter, Irene J.; 1981. "Royal
Rhetoric and the Development of Historical narrative in Neo-Assyrian
Reliefs", Studies in Visual Communication 7 (1981) 2-38. (E-reserve)
Presentation (Julia)
Pittman,
Holly; 1996. “The White Obelisk and the problem of historical narrative in the
art of Assyria,” Art Bulletin 78: 334-355. (E-reserve)
[Ann
Hamilton’s public lecture on Reed campus. Hamilton visits Reed between April 10th
and 13th. Students who wish to know about her work and meet her, see
Omur.]
Neo-Assyrian monuments of the periphery
and about the periphery: rock reliefs, exotic gardens and bronze gates. Bronzes
from the Mamu temple at Balawat (Imgur-Enlil). Geography, commemoration and the
royal rhetoric; the case of the Sources of the Tigris rock reliefs. Paradeisos
or the exotic royal garden in the Assyrian capital. Nineveh and Sennacherib’s
Carving of the Bull program from his Southwest palace.
Readings
Tilley, Christopher; 1994. “Space,
place, landscape and perception: phenomenological perspectives,” A
phenomenology of landscapes: places, paths, monuments. Oxford/Providence: Berg,
pp. 7-34. (E-reserve)
Marcus, Michelle I.; 1995.
“Geography as visual ideology: landscape, knowledge, and power in Neo-Assyrian
art,” in Neo-Assyrian geography, Mario
Liverani (ed.); Università di Roma “La Sapienza,” Roma: Sargon srl, 193-202.
Presentation (Linnane)
Russell, John Malcolm; 1987. “Bulls
for the palace and order in the empire: The sculptural program of Sennacherib’
Court VI at Nineveh,” Art Bulletin
69: 520-539.
Babylon in the Neo-Babylonian period and
afterwards: in archaeological evidence and post-classical myth. The so-called
“hanging-gardens” and the tradition of royal gardens (paradeisos) in the
Ancient Near East. Myth and the historicity of the image of the city.
Readings
George, Andrew R.; 1993. “Babylon
revisited: archaeology and philology in harness,” Antiquity 67: 734-46. (E-reserve/Stacks)
Black, Jeremy A.; 1981. “The new
year ceremonies in ancient Babylon: ‘taking Bel by the hand’ and a cultic
picnic,” Religion 11: 39-59.
(E-reserve/Stacks)
Kuhrt, Amélie; 2001. “The palace(s)
of Babylon,” in The royal palace institution in the First Millennium b.c.:
regional development and cultural interchange between East and West. Inge Nielsen (ed.); Monographs of the Danish Institute at
Athens: Athens, 77-94. (E-reserve)
Presentation (Rachel+Amanda)
Novák, Mirko; 2002. “The artificial
paradise: programme and ideology of royal gardens,” in Sex and gender in the
ancient Near East. Proceedings of the 47th
Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Helsinki, July 2-6 2001. S. Parpola
and R.M. Whiting (eds.); Helsinki: The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, Part
II , 443-460. (E-reserve)
Kuhrt, Amélie; 2001. “The palace(s)
of Babylon,” in The royal palace institution in the First Millennium b.c.:
regional development and cultural interchange between East and West. Inge Nielsen (ed.); Monographs of the Danish Institute at
Athens: Athens, 77-94. (E-reserve)
Talk at Portland Art Museum (1219 S.W.
Park Avenue), Whitsell Auditorium 6:00 pm.
Dr. Frederick N. Bohrer, Associate
Professor of Art, Hood College, and author of Orientalism in Visual Culture:
Imagining Mesopotamia in Nineteenth-Century Europe.
[Research
Paper drafts due.]
Student
presentations of research topics. Each presentation: 10-15 min. Discussion 15
min.
|
Julia |
Sacred tree of
life in Assyria |
|
Maya |
Museum space
and the presentation of archaeological knowledge. |
|
Arini |
Household
activities, materiality and spatiality of house interiors and social memory
in Çatalhöyük houses. |
|
Christopher |
Inanna |
[Research Paper drafts due.]
Student presentations of research topics. Each presentation:
10-15 min. Discussion 15 min.
|
Julie |
Why settle?
Tracking the transition from nomadism in the ancient Near East |
|
Rachel |
Purifying and
protective rituals for foundations in Gudea’s temple |
[Research Paper drafts due.]
Student presentations of research topics. Each presentation:
10-15 min. Discussion 15 min.
|
Molly |
Women,
households and everyday life in ancient Mesopotamia |
|
Megan |
City laments
and the royal rhetoric: imaginations of the early Mesopotamian city |
|
Amanda |
Reception and
popularization of Near Eastern artifacts in Europe |
|
Allie |
The cult of
Inanna: a psychological, sociological and archaeological approach. |
[Research Paper drafts due.]
Student
presentations of research topics. Each presentation: 10-15 min. Discussion 15
min.
|
Leela |
Irene Winter’s
approach to images and ideology |
|
Michelle |
The shifting
meaning of the Near Eastern object in academic writing |
|
Lotus |
Place and
power: the case of ancient Babylon and its modern interpretations. |
|
Linnane |
Hanging
gardens of Babylon |
Research Papers due.