Assyrian reliefs from the palace of Ashurnasirpal II : a cultural biography

Publication Data

• Title Assyrian reliefs from the palace of Ashurnasirpal II : a cultural biography
• Contributors Ada Cohen, Steven E. Kangas
• Publisher Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
• Publication date 2010
• Publication location Hanover, N.H.
• Language English

Contents

List of illustrations
Foreword
Preface
Ch. 1. "Our Nineveh enterprise" / Ada Cohen and Steven E. Kangas
Plates
Ch. 2. The early exploration of Assyria / Julian Reade
Ch. 3. Archaeology and politics in Iraq : from the British mandate to Saddam Hussein / James F. Goode
Ch. 4. Assyria in the Bible / Susan Ackerman
Ch. 5. Decorations, political posters, time capsules, and living gods : the meaning and function of the Assyrian palace carvings in the Hood Museum of Art / Barbara N. Porter
Ch. 6. "Time and eternity" in the northwest palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud / Mehmet-Ali Ataì
Ch. 7. Attending the king in the Assyrian reliefs / Paul Collins
Ch. 8. Banquets, baubles, and bronzes : material comforts in the Neo-Assyrian palaces / Allison Karmel Thomason
Ch. 9. The Northwest palace in the digital age / Samuel M. Paley with the collaboration of Donald H. Sanders
Notes
References
List of contributors
Index.

Topics

• Ashurnasirpal II, King of Assyria, active 885 B.C.-860 B.C. :: Homes and haunts :: Iraq :: Calah (Extinct city)
• Excavations (Archaeology) :: Iraq :: Calah (Extinct city)
• Relief (Sculpture), Assyro-Babylonian :: Iraq :: Calah (Extinct city)
• Assyria :: Antiquities
• Assyria

Assyrian reliefs from the palace of Ashurnasirpal II : a cultural biography. ISBN 9781584658177. Published by Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.