Del 18 i serien Archaeopress Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology

Thinking, Speaking and Representing Animals in Western Asia

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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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In all societies, ancient and modern, animals have been of great importance to humans, being used for sustenance, transport, entertainment and emotional fulfilment. In the Ancient Near East, the cradle of domestication, the relationship between humans and animals was much stronger than it is today. The fascination animals exert on humans and the relationships between them are the subject of this book, the result of several workshops organized during the ASOR congress, where archaeologists, researchers specialising in iconography, historians, Assyriologists and archaeozoologists came together to exchange views and achieve a broader understanding of animals. Although our desired perspective is from that of the animal, in Mesopotamia the gaze is always the human one.The book is divided in two parts: the first is devoted to small animals (birds, snakes, lizards and mongooses). The second part concerns animals worthy of the king, such as deer, lions and dogs. The articles cover the period from the end of the 3rd millennium BC to the Sassanid and Roman/Byzantine periods, with a particular emphasis on the first and second millennia BC.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-06-25
Mått203 x 276 x 20 mm
Vikt1 030 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieArchaeopress Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology
Antal sidor214
FörlagArchaeopress
ISBN9781805833185

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Laura Battini is a researcher at the French National Centre of Scientific Research. Among her books are L’espace domestique en Mésopotamie (1999), Making Pictures of War (2016), and La déesse aux oies (2026). She is director of the journal Ash Sharq, and is editor of the series Archaeopress Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology, as well as a blog (https://ane.hypotheses.org/). Her principle areas of research are Mesopotamian architecture and urbanism, materiality and the body, and violence.

IntroductionPart I: Small Animals: Birds, Reptiles and MongoosesChapter 1: “A Sparrow in the Hand is Better than the Pigeon on the Roof”: An Aviary in the Steppe (Khirbet Es-Samra, Jordan) – Hervé Monchot, Lionel GourichonChapter 2: Mesopotamian Changes in Human-Birds-Landscape Relations as Reconstructed by Archaeological and Iconographic Data from Akkadian to Old Babylonian Period: Seals from the British Museum – Laura BattiniChapter 3: The Reptilian Omens: Linguistic Patterns and Analogical Reasoning in an Ancient Mesopotamian Divinatory Text – Nicole Lundeen, Maya RindererChapter 4: The Mongoose, A Wild Animal in Natural, Religious and Domestic Contexts – Françoise Laroche-TrauneckerChapter 5: Animals, Drums, and the Roll of Thunder: Animal Symbolism in an Omen Sequence from the Astrological Omen Series Enūma Anu Enlil – Lucrezia Menicatti Part II: Animals for the King: Deer, Lions and DogsChapter 6: Wisdom in Stone: A New Perspective on the Late Sasanian Deer Hunt Relief at Taq-e Bustan – Arvin MaghsoudlouChapter 7: ‘Pet’ Lions at the Assyrian Court – Paul CollinsChapter 8: Mesopotamian Lions in Captivity – Chikako E. WatanabeChapter 9: In the Beginning was a Male: Ancient Near Eastern Visual Gender Bias of the Lion and the Lioness – Tallay OrnanChapter 10: Dogs in Hammurabi’s Days – Nele ZieglerChapter 11: Big Babylonian Dogs: Why do Big Dogs Appear in the Art of Babylonia in the Early Second Millennium BC? – Trudy Kawami