Ancient Queenship

Ainsley M. Cameron is the curator of South Asian Art, Islamic Art and Antiquities at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Cameron is also Project Director of a multi-year gallery reinstallation project of CAM's ancient Middle Eastern collections, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.Patricia Eunji Kim is assistant professor at New York University, senior editor and curator-at-large at Monument Lab, guest curator at the Cincinnati Art Museum, and co-editor of several volumes on both ancient and contemporary art. Her research has been recognized with awards and fellowships from the Center for Hellenic Studies, the Archaeological Institute of America, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.Anastasia Tchaplyghine is curator for Mesopotamia at The British Museum, guest curator at the Cincinnati Art Museum, and registrar for the University of Pennsylvania's Iraq Heritage Stabilization Program at Nimrud and Nineveh, USA. She is a co-author, with Patricia Eunji Kim of Queens in Antiquity and the Present: Speculative Visions and Critical Histories (2024).Sarah E. Wenner is provenance researcher and object historian at the Cincinnati Art Museum and assistant professor at the American Center of Research (Amman, Jordan).

• Director's Foreword by Cameron KitchinCuratorial Acknowledgements by Ainsley M. CameronChronology of Queens RepresentedTimelineIntroduction by Ainsley M. Cameron, Patricia Eunji Kim, Anastasia TchaplyghineEssays and PlatesPortraying the Queenly BodyPortraits of Queens, Portrayals of Power by Patricia Eunji KimTimeless Icons: Ancient Assyrian Queens as Empowered Beauties and Bodies of Empire by Amy GansellBody Politics: Representing Cleopatra VII in Modern and Contemporary Contexts by Katherine BlouinCatalogue Entries 1-16Roles of QueenshipThe Economic Power of Mesopotamian Queens by Francis JoannesWarrior Queens in Antiquity: Myth and History, Folklore and Fact by Adrienne MayorThe Kinship of Hellenistic Queens by Sheila AgerCatalogue Entries 17-32Divinity and QueenshipDivine Queenship in the Land of Kush by Solange AshbyDivinity and Queenship: Hellenistic Queen Cults by Sabine MullerThe Aesthetics of Shine: Divine Afterlives of Queenship from Ancient Assyria to the Afro-Future by Anastasia Tchaplyghine and Brandi Thompson SummersLife After Life: Creating Connections with the Queen of Sheba by Sarah E. WennerCatalogue Entries 33-49Conclusion by Ainsley M. CameronNotes to EssaysNotes to Catalogue EntriesBibliographyIndexImage SourcesAuthor Biographies