Image and Identity in the Ancient Near East: Papers in memoriam Pierre Amiet

Edited by Laura Battini

Book cover: Image and Identity in the Ancient Near East: Papers in memoriam Pierre Amiet

Extent: 204 pages

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing

Subjects: Ancient Near East

Series: Archaeopress Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(May 2022)

ISBN: 9781803271224

8.07 x 11.42 inches

Price: $54.00

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This volume, consisting of two parts, gathers papers in honour of Pierre Amiet. Part 1 analyses the body as a biological entity as well as a social, sexual and cultural identity (persona). Part 2 includes articles closely related to the specialisms of Amiet: glyptics, state formation, and the organisation of craftsmen and statuary.


Image and Identity in the Ancient Near East: Papers in memoriam Pierre Amiet gathers the papers of two colloquia – one held in Pierre Amiet’s honour in Lyon in 2016 and the other held in Paris in 2017, as well as articles by colleagues who wished to dedicate a final tribute to him. The volume consists of two parts. The studies in the first part analyse the body as a biological entity as well as a social, sexual and cultural identity (persona). They show the emotional power of images, the means and media used to achieve this suggestive power, and the different audiences that are the privileged recipients of the different types of production. They also investigate the emotions as they are expressed through the gestures and attitudes of the characters represented. The second part includes articles that are more closely related to the themes that Pierre Amiet has tackled. Two articles deal with his favourite research theme, glyptics. One article takes up the problem of the formation of the state which Pierre Amiet had dealt with in several of his glyptic studies. Other papers are concerned with the organisation of craftsmen and statuary.

Introduction - Laura Battini Premiere Partie : Persona et le corps 'Personae' and Human Images. 'Different Bodies' and the Power of Visual Communication - Rita Dolce Corps ou persona ? L'enfant a l'epoque neo-assyrienne - Laura Battini Real Human Bodies, Images of Bodies and the Time Factor in the Early Cultures of Mesopotamia and Syria - Rita Dolce The Cultural Construction of the Gendered Body in Ancient Near Eastern Studies: A Historiographical Approach - Agnes Garcia-Ventura Validating the Imprinting through Presence and Properties in Old Babylonian Period - Silvana Di Paolo Souvenir de Pierre Amiet - Rita Dolce Alterations corporelles en Anatolie hittite - Alice Mouton As-tu vu celui dont le corps est abandonne dans le desert ? Je l'ai vu, son e?emmu ne se repose pas aux Enfers. Le devenir du corps par-dela la mort en Mesopotamie - V. Van der Stede Deuxieme Partie : Les autres pistes de recherche Aux origines du premier urbanisme: approche methodologique des conditions de sa naissance - Jean-Claude Margueron The Arc of the Horn Part I: Ibexes as Icons of Cultural Imperative in Early Iranian Glyptic - Margaret Cool Root Couleurs et lumiere sur les statues mesopotamiennes - Astrid Nunn Les orfevres dans les sources ecrites neo-assyriennes - Pierre Villard Reprise de motifs akkadiens en Assyrie : de la porte habitee a l'arbre de vie - Laura Battini, Introduction – Laura Battini Première Partie : Persona et le corpsRita DolceLaura BattiniRita DolceAgnès Garcia-VenturaSilvana Di PaoloRita DolceAlice Moutoneṭemmu ne se repose pas aux Enfers. Le devenir du corps par-delà la mort en Mésopotamie – V. Van der Stede Deuxième Partie : Les autres pistes de rechercheJean-Claude MargueronMargaret Cool RootAstrid NunnPierre Villard Laura Battini

  • Edited by Laura Battini