Mortals, Deities and Divine Symbols: Rethinking Ancient Images from the Levant to Mesopotamia: Studies Offered to Tallay Ornan (Archaeopress Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology) - Softcover

 
9781803272931: Mortals, Deities and Divine Symbols: Rethinking Ancient Images from the Levant to Mesopotamia: Studies Offered to Tallay Ornan (Archaeopress Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1803272937 ISBN 13: 9781803272931
Publisher: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2025

Synopsis

Mortals, Deities and Divine Symbols: Rethinking Ancient Imagery from the Levant to Mesopotamia is dedicated to Tallay Ornan, a scholar who has distinguished herself in ancient Western Asian iconographic studies and has become an undisputed reference in this field. It is divided into three parts, which give greater prominence to Tallay Ornan’s major themes: New Discoveries and Approaches in twelve chapters; The Human World (e.g. royals, women) in fourteen chapters; The Divine World (anthropomorphic deities and divine symbols) in eighteen chapters.


The chapters discuss iconological and textual problems from the Levant to Mesopotamia, in a chronological span from the third to first millennia BCE.

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About the Authors

Benjamin Sass is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University. Among his books are Corpus of West Semitic Stamp Seals (1997), The Alphabet at the Turn of the Millennium (2005), and Aramaic and Figural Stamp Impressions on Bricks of the Sixth Century B.C. from Babylon (2010). For the last decade he has been writing extensively about the alphabet in the earlier Iron Age, frequently in collaboration with Israel Finkelstein.



Laura Battini is a researcher at the French National Centre of Scientific Research. Among her books are L'espace domestique en Mésopotamie (1999), Making Pictures of War (2016), and La déesse aux oies (forthcoming, 2025). She is director of the journal Ash Sharq, and is editor of the series Archaeopress Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology, as well as a blog (https://ane.hypotheses.org/). Her principle areas of research are Mesopotamian architecture and urbanism, materiality and the body, and violence.

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Publisher
Archaeopress Archaeology
Publication date
2025
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1803272937
ISBN 13 
9781803272931
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
712
Editor
Sass Benjamin, Battini Laura