Testing the Canon of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology

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Testing the Canon of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology
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Contents
List of Figures
List of Plates
List of Tables
List of Maps
Foreword   Irene J. Winter
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
List of Shortened forms
Chapter 1 Perspectives on the Ancient Near Eastern Canon: More than Mesopotamia’s Greatest Hits
PART I
	Chapter 2 The Southern Levant and the Ancient Near Eastern Canon
	Chapter 3 Archaeological Research in Pre-​Classical Syria and the Canon of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology
	Chapter 4 The Past, Present, and Future of the Canon of Ancient Anatolian Art
	Chapter 5 The Canon of Ancient Iranian Art: From Grand Narratives to Local Perspectives
	Chapter 6 “Classical” versus “Ancient” in the Near Eastern Canon: The Position of Graeco-​Roman Art from the Levant, c. 330 BCE–​636 CE
PART II
	Chapter 7 Defining the Canon of Funerary Archaeology in the Ancient Near East
	Chapter 8 The Canon of Ancient Near Eastern Glyptic on a Roll: Leaps, Hurdles, and Goals
	Chapter 9 The Canon of Ancient Near Eastern Palaces
PART III
	Chapter 10 How Ancient and Modern Memory Shapes the Past: A Canon of Assyrian Memory
	Chapter 11 Museums as Vehicles for Defining Artistic Canons: The Case of the Ancient Near East in the British Museum
	Chapter 12 Conceptualizing the Past in Museum Exhibitions of Ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern Art
	Chapter 13 The Ancient Near Eastern Canon in the University Classroom, and Beyond: My Colleagues Speak
PART IV
	Chapter 14 The Lucrative Business of the Cyrus Cylinder: Commodification of an Iranian Icon
	Chapter 15 Between Hazor and Masada: Canonical Archaeological Sites as Symbols of Collective Memories in Modern Israeli Identities
	Chapter 16 Past Resurrections: The Ancient in Contemporary Art
	Chapter 17 Earth, Rocks, and Blood: A Wandering Home
	Chapter 18 6,000 Years
	Chapter 19 Cultural Heritage Attrition in Egypt
	Chapter 20 Crafting the Ancient Near Eastern Canon: A Personal Reflection
	Chapter 21 The Consequences of the Destruction of Syrian Heritage on the Syrian Identity and Future Generations
	Chapter 22 Contemporary Art and Archaeology in the Arab World
	Chapter 23 The Assyrians: Then and Now
	Chapter 24 Bringing the Past to a Living Room Near You: The Archaeological Heritage of Anatolia on Glass
Bibliography
Index