Image and Identity in the Ancient Near East: Papers in Memoriam Pierre Amiet Image and Identity in the Ancient Near East Papers in Memoriam Pierre Amiet

Image and Identity in the Ancient Near East: Papers in memoriam Pierre Amiet gathers the papers of two colloquia – one held in Pierre Amiet's honour in Lyon in 2016 and the other held in Paris in 2017, as well as articles by colleagues who wished to dedicate a final tribute to him. The volume consists of two parts. The studies in the first part analyse the body as a biological entity as well as a social, sexual and cultural identity (persona). They show the emotional power of images, the means and media used to achieve this suggestive power, and the different audiences that are the privileged recipients of the different types of production. They also investigate the emotions as they are expressed through the gestures and attitudes of the characters represented. The second part includes articles that are more closely related to the themes that Pierre Amiet has tackled. Two articles deal with his favourite research theme, glyptics. One article takes up the problem of the formation of the state which Pierre Amiet had dealt with in several of his glyptic studies. Other papers are concerned with the organisation of craftsmen and statuary. Image and Identity in the Ancient Near East: Papers in memoriam Pierre Amiet gathers the papers of two colloquia – one held in Pierre Amiet’s honour in Lyon in 2016 and the other held in Paris in 2017, as well as articles by colleagues who wished to dedicate a final tribute to him. The volume consists of two parts. The studies in the first part analyse the body as a biological entity as well as a social, sexual and cultural identity (persona). They show the emotional power of images, the means and media used to achieve this suggestive power, and the different audiences that are the privileged recipients of the different types of production. They also investigate the emotions as they are expressed through the gestures and attitudes of the characters represented. The second part includes articles that are more closely related to the themes that Pierre Amiet has tackled. Two articles deal with his favourite research theme, glyptics. One article takes up the problem of the formation of the state which Pierre Amiet had dealt with in several of his glyptic studies. Other papers are concerned with the organisation of craftsmen and statuary. Cover 1 Title Page 3 Copyright page 4 Contents Page 5 Introduction 7 Première Partie : Persona et le corps 11 ‘Personae’ and Human Images. ‘Different Bodies’ and the Power of Visual Communication 13 Rita Dolce 13 Corps ou persona ? L’enfant à l’époque néo-assyrienne 23 Laura Battini 23 Real Human Bodies, Images of Bodies and the Time Factor in the Early Cultures of Mesopotamia and Syria 39 Rita Dolce 39 A Historiographical Approach 50 Agnès Garcia-Ventura 50 The Cultural Construction of the Gendered Body in Ancient Near Eastern Studies: 50 Validating the Imprinting through Presence and Properties in Old Babylonian Period* 60 Silvana Di Paolo 60 Souvenir de Pierre Amiet 67 Rita Dolce 67 Altérations corporelles en Anatolie hittite 68 Alice Mouton 68 As-tu vu celui dont le corps est abandonné dans le désert ? 77 Je l’ai vu, son eṭemmu ne se repose pas aux Enfers... 77 Le devenir du corps par-delà la mort en Mésopotamie 77 V. Van der Stede 77 Deuxième Partie : Les autres pistes de recherche 89 Aux origines du premier urbanisme: 91 approche méthodologique des conditions de sa naissance 91 Jean-Claude Margueron 91 Ibexes as Icons of Cultural Imperative in Early Iranian Glyptic 106 Margaret Cool Root 106 The Arc of the Horn Part I: 106 Couleurs et lumière sur les statues mésopotamiennes 113 Astrid Nunn 113 Les orfèvres dans les sources écrites néo-assyriennes 127 Pierre Villard 127 Reprise de motifs akkadiens en Assyrie : de la porte « habitée » à l’arbre de vie 137 Laura Battini 137 Back cover 204 Archaeopress Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology 8 This volume, consisting of two parts, gathers papers in honour of Pierre Amiet. Part 1 analyses the body as a biological entity as well as a social, sexual and cultural identity (persona). Part 2 includes articles closely related to the specialisms of Amiet: glyptics, state formation, and the organisation of craftsmen and statuary.