IRENE J. WINTER, Ph.D. (1973), Columbia University, New York, is William Dorr Boardman Professor, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University. Her first degree was in Anthropology (Barnard College); her MA in Near Eastern Studies (University of Chicago), her PhD in Art History and Archaeology. Not surprisingly, her extensive publications have tended to be inter-disciplinary in nature.

• THE ASSYRIAN PALACE AND RELIEF CARVINGChapter One: Royal Rhetoric and the Development of Historical Narrativein Neo-Assyrian ReliefsChapter Two: Art in Empire: The Royal Image and the Visual Dimensions of Assyrian IdeologyChapter Three: Le Palais imaginaire: Scale and Meaning inthe Iconography of Neo-Assyrian Cylinder SealsChapter Four: Ornament and the “Rhetoric of Abundance” in AssyriaBRONZE AND IVORY/LUXURY GOODSChapter Five: Phoenician and North Syrian Ivory Carvingin Historical Context: Questions of Style and DistributionChapter Six: Carved Ivory Furniture Panels from Nimrud:A Coherent Subgroup of the North Syrian StyleChapter Seven; Is There a South Syrian Style of IvoryCarving in the Early First Millennium b.c.?Chapter Eight: North Syria as a Bronzeworking Centre inthe Early First Millennium b.c.: Luxury Commoditiesat Home and AbroadChapter Nine: North Syrian Ivories and Tell Halaf Reliefs:The Impact of Luxury Goods upon “Major” ArtsChapter Ten: Establishing Group Boundaries: TowardMethodological Refinement in the Determination ofSets as a Prior Condition to the Analysis of CulturalContact and/or Innovation in First Millennium b.c.e.Ivory CarvingINTERACTIONS OF TIME AND SPACEChapter Eleven: Perspective on the “Local Style” of Hasanlu IVB: A Study in Receptivity Chapter Twelve: On the Problems of Karatepe: The Reliefs and Their ContextChapter Thirteen: Art as Evidence for Interaction:Relations between the Assyrian Empire and North SyriaChapter Fourteen: Carchemish ša kišad purattiChapter Fifteen: Homer’s Phoenicians: History, Ethnography, or Literary Trope? [A Perspective on Early Orientalism]