| Acknowledgements |
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| Contributors |
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| Editors' Note |
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| Introduction |
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Archaeology and Politics in Iraq |
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15 | (16) |
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Forgeries of Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts and Cultures |
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31 | (24) |
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Beyond the East-West Dichotomy in Syrian and Levantine Wall Paintings |
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55 | (24) |
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Orientalism and Orientalization in the Iron Age Mediterranean |
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79 | (32) |
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II Technologies and Practices of Artistic Production |
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The Historiography of the Concept of "Workshop" in Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology: Descriptive Models and Theoretical Approaches (Anthropology vs. Art History) |
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111 | (22) |
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The Impact of the "Portable": Integrating "Minor Arts" into the Ancient Near Eastern Canon |
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133 | (26) |
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The Influence of the Physical Medium on the Decoration of a Work of Art: A Case Study of the "Phoenician" Bowls |
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159 | (26) |
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Impressions of the Contest Scene: Glyptic Imagery and Sealing Practice in the Akkadian Period |
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185 | (20) |
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Histories of Cypriot Art through Seal Carving |
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205 | (36) |
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Relating Image and Word in Ancient Mesopotamia |
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241 | (24) |
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Pictorial Mythology and Narrative in the Ancient Near East |
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265 | (30) |
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Art's Role in the Origins of Writing: The Seal-Carver, the Scribe, and the Earliest Lexical Texts |
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295 | (24) |
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Posthumous Images and the Memory of the Akkadian Kings |
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319 | (26) |
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Styles of Pictorial Narratives in Assurbanipal's Reliefs |
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345 | (26) |
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Sexuality, Reproduction and Gender in Terracotta Plaques from the Late Third-Early Second Millennia BCE |
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371 | (20) |
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Images and Conceptions of Ideal Feminine Beauty in Neo-Assyrian Royal Contexts, c. 883--627 BCE |
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391 | (30) |
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Uniforms and Non-Conformists: Tensions and Trends in Early Dynastic Fashion |
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421 | (30) |
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Terracotta Figurines and Social Identities in Hellenistic Babylonia |
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451 | (30) |
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Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper |
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The Impressed Image: Glyptic Studies as Art and Social History |
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481 | (34) |
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Culture on Display: Representations of Ethnicity in the Art of the Late Assyrian State |
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515 | (30) |
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V Religion, Ritual and Politics |
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Human, Divine or Both? The Uruk Vase and the Problem of Ambiguity in Early Mesopotamian Visual Arts |
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545 | (24) |
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A Silent Message: Godlike Kings in Mesopotamian Art |
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569 | (28) |
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When the Subject is the Object: Relational Ontologies, the Partible Person and Images of Naram-Sin |
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597 | (22) |
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Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Violence: Warfare in Neo-Assyrian Art |
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619 | (26) |
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The Tell Asmar Hoard and Rituals of Early Dynastic Sculpture |
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645 | (24) |
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VI Making and Defining Space |
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A Feast for the Eyes: Depiction and Performance of Ritual within the Sacred Space of Middle Bronze Age Ebla |
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669 | (20) |
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The Art of Building a Late Assyrian Royal Palace |
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689 | (24) |
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The Assyrian Landscape as Ritual |
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713 | (28) |
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Aesthetics of the Natural Environment in the Arts of the Ancient Near East: The Elamite Rock-Cut Sanctuary of Kurangun |
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741 | (32) |
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Art of the Achaemenid Empire, and Art in the Achaemenid Empire |
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773 | (28) |
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