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
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, [2019] , , c2019
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"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)
Contents of Works
- 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