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Mortals, Deities and Divine Symbols: Rethinking Ancient Imagery from the Levant to Mesopotamia is dedicated to Tallay Ornan, a scholar who has distinguished herself in ancient Western Asian iconographic studies and has become an undisputed reference in this field. It is composed of 44 articles, divided into three parts, which give greater prominence to Tallay Ornan’s major themes:
New Discoveries and Approaches in twelve chapters;
The Human World in fourteen chapters;
The Divine World in eighteen chapters.
712 pages, 424 figures, published May 2025. Keywords: Levant; Mesopotamia; Ancient Near East; Identity; Deity; Symbols. The book is edited by Benjamin Sass and Laura Battini and published by Archaeopress, Oxford.
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Contents:
FIRST PART:
NEW MATERIAL AND APPROACHES
Arie Eran. Closed case: an Iron Age trove of jewellery from the Israel Museum collection and the identification of its provenance at Tel ‘Ira (Israel)
Bachvarova Mary. Articulating foundation myths in Milesian festivals: A diachronic perspective
Dolce Rita. Ancient images in Mesopotamia: Ancient gaze and present observation between visual sources and textual sources. Questions and limitations
Feldman Marian. Naturalism, photography, and empire in the Old Akkadian period.
Franklin Norma. A reassessment: is the cone-shaped object held by the genii in Assurnasirapal’s palace at Kalhu a citron?
Garcia Ventura Agnes. The reception of the Law Code stele of Hammurabi in Spain: From a treatise on ophthalmology to a white plaster cast.
Gubel Eric. New gleanings at the temples of Sidon, Tyre and Jerusalem (Decoding Phoenician Art – II).
Niederreiter Zoltan. The imagery of the Neo-Assyrian seals belonging to the palace. An interpretation of the scene on a stamp seal formerly kept in the Southesk collection
Portuese Ludovico. Gods, rulers, and death: Nonverbal expressions and group identity in Syro-Anatolian and Assyrian monumental art
Sass Benjamin and Eythan Levy. Inscribed bullae from the Samaria excavations forgotten for ninety years.
Schroer Silvia. The impact of models and prototypes in carving and sculpturing. How craftspeople referred to prototypes and conventions. Two various examples
Selz Gebhard. How meaning evolves. Proto-cuneiform signs: considerations on their origins at the intersection of visual and oral communication
SECOND PART:
THE HUMAN WORLD
Ben-Ami Debi. The threat of the women warriors: From the Arab women to the Amazons
Ben-Tor Daphna and Othmar Keel. Ideological differences between representations of the pharaoh during the 18th and 19th Dynasties reflected on scarabs and stamp-seals.
Bonatz Dominik. In a masked world: on the physiognomy of Assyrian faces.
Caubet Annie. The Lady at the window from Arslan Tash
Cornelius Izak. Revisiting the seated figure on wall painting No. 9 from Kuntillet Ajrud once again.
Dalley Stephanie. Sennacherib’s open-air sanctuary at Khinis / Bavian: quarries, quarry workers, recarved panels and polylithic bulls.
David Arlette. Akhenaten’s divine crop.
Hasegawa Shuichi and Shizuka Mito. Two Iron Age female figurines from Tel Rekhesh
Herbordt, Suzanne. In the sign of the scorpion. The administrative seals of the Neo-Assyrian queen and the queen’s household.
Masetti Rouault Maria-Grazia. The Image of the City in Assyrian Representation, as a Symbol and Scene.
May Natascha. Whose head is hanging from the tree?
Nunn Astrid. Back to life. On a lifelike female statue head from Assur.
Da Riva Rocío. On the elusive Babylonian royal seal.
Zadok Ran. A preliminary survey of the documentation from Dilbat and several other places in central and northern Babylonia chiefly during the long 6th century BC.
THIRD PART:
THE DIVINE WORLD
Abusch and David P. Wright. The meaning and sense of the Ugaritic Baal–Mot conflict narrative
Battini Laura. A confidential message: divine fight and death in a forgotten Akkadian seal of Ur.
Bloch Yigal. Three Kassite seals in the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem.
Bonfil Ruhama and Robert Bonfil. “I have set My bow in the cloud” – Symbolism and myth.
Brandl Baruch. The symbol of the triumph.
Collins Paul. Revisiting an exorcist’s seal in the Ashmolean Museum.
Gabbay Uri. Gods and birds in ancient Mesopotamia.
Garfinkel Yosef. For whom the bell tolls: Horse harnesses at Megiddo and beyond.
Garrison Mark. The late Babylonian worship scene at Persepolis.
Hazan Clement. A new look at the Hittite silver vessel in the shape of a fist.
Katz Dina. The tale of ‘Nergal and Ereškigal’ revisited.
Kisilevitz Shua, Amotz Agnon, Nuphar Gedulter, and Oded Lipschits. On his image: god or ruler? A stone relief from the iron IIA cultic precinct at Tel Motsa.
Nadav Na’aman. The sanctuary of Ataroth and its inscriptions.
Rendu Loisel Anne Caroline. Beyond the visible: feeling the divine presence in ancient Mesopotamia.
Sebbane Michael. The hunters’ palette.
Suter Claudia. The repertoire of motifs and their composition on ivory furniture from Samaria. An updated inventory and reflections on Egyptianizing trends in Ancient Israel.
Wasserman Nathan. A ceremonial mace-head with dedicatory inscription of the Old Akkadian period.
Ziffer Irit. Their god is a god of mountains (1 Kings 20:23).Topographic imagery in pictorial art.
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Laura Battini (2 juin 2025). Just published. Sociétés humaines du Proche-Orient ancien, ISSN 2606-7587. Consulté le 14 septembre 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/141dn
