Graven Image - Representation in Babylonia and AssyriaPevná vazba
Graven Image - Representation in Babylonia and AssyriaPevná vazba The Graven Image Representation in Babylonia and Assyria Zainab Bahrani "A passionate and powerful polemic."--Antiquity "Bahrani…
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Graven Image - Representation in Babylonia and AssyriaPevná vazba
The Graven Image Representation in Babylonia and Assyria Zainab Bahrani "A passionate and powerful polemic."--Antiquity "Bahrani opens up the field of discourse for the study of ancient Near Eastern art and brings it into dialogue with current disciplinary trends. . . . It breaks away from Eurocentric approaches and tries to do justice to Mesopotamian thought, thus shedding new light on the relationship between text and representation. . . . The book will stimulate further discussion about the nature(s) of Babylonian and Assyrian representation across the disciplinary divides."--Journal of the American Oriental Society "A welcome addition to the study of the ancient Near East.
Bahrani's book will become the center of a lively debate."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review Mesopotamia, the world's earliest literate culture, developed a rich philosophical conception of