A wonder to behold : craftsmanship and the creation of Babylon's Ishtar Gate

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A wonder to behold : craftsmanship and the creation of Babylon's Ishtar Gate

edited by Anastasia Amrhein, Clare Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Knott

Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, [2019] , , c2019

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Content Type: text (ncrcontent), Media Type: unmediated (ncrmedia), Carrier Type: volume (ncrcarrier)

"This catalogue is published by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University in association with Princeton University Press on the occasion of the exhibition A wonder to behold: craftsmanship and the creation of Babylon's Ishtar Gate, on view at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, November 6, 2019-May 24, 2020."--Title page verso

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-183)

収録内容

  • Sacred materials, sacred skills / Anastasia Amrhein and Elizabeth Knott
  • "The men who wrought the baked brick, those were Babylonians" : a brief history of molded and glazed bricks / Anja Fügert and Helen Gries
  • Building Babylon : the anatomy of a monumental construction project / Heather D. Baker
  • Layout and composition of the animals from the Ishtar Gate and Processional Way at Babylon / Sarah B. Graff
  • How bricks were made / Jean-François de Lapérouse
  • Reading between the lines : fitters' marks in the Ancient Near East / May-Sarah Zeßin
  • The power of stones : natural, artificial, and in between / Anastasia Amrhein
  • Eyestones, natural and man-made / Elizabeth Knott
  • Vitreous materials in the Ancient Near East / Katherine A. Larson
  • Glassmaking as scribal craft / Eduardo A. Escobar
  • Color and affect in Nebuchadnezzar II's Babylon / Shiyanthi Thavapalan
  • "Ishtar overthrows its assailants" : the protective forces of Babylon's Ishtar Gate / Beate Pongratz-Leisten
  • Conclusion : Beholding Babylon's Ishtar Gate / Anastasia Amrhein and Elizabeth Knott

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