Assyria to Iberia: Art and Culture in the Iron Age: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Symposia

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I. From Bronze To Iron -- Bronze To Iron: Art In Transition / Joan Aruz -- The World Of The Philistines And Other Sea Peoples / Ann E. Killebrew -- Ii. Assyria And Babylonia -- The Face Of The Assyrian Empire: Mythology And The Heroic King / Paul Collins -- Imperial Fashion Networks: Royal Assyrian, Near Eastern, Intercultural, And Composite Style Adornment From The Neo-assyrian Royal Women's Tombs At Nimrud / Amy Rebecca Gansell -- The Empire In The Palace: Campaign Reliefs In The Southwest Palace At Nineveh And An Assyrian Microcosm / Michael Seymour -- Scholars And Scholarship In Assyria And Babylonia, Or: What If Socrates Had Studies Cuneiform? / Marc Van De Mieroop -- Iii. Syria, The Levant, And The Phoenician Expansion -- A New Millennium: A New Order: Philistines, Phoenicians, Aramaeans, And The Kingdom Of Israel -- The City Of David In Jerusalem And Its Phoenician Connection / Ronny Reich -- The Levant And The Eastern Mediterranean In The Early Phases Of The Iron Age: The View From Micro-archaeology / Israel Finkelstein -- Assyrians And Aramaeans: Modes Of Cohabitation And Acculturation At Guzana (tell Halaf) / Mirko Novák -- Phoenicians And Greeks In Cilicia? Coining Elite Identity In Iron Age Anatolia / Ash Özyar -- Phoenician Politics In Colonial Context: Pyrgi Again / María Eugenia Aubet -- Tribal Dynamics, Child Gods, Festivals, And The Faraway Goddess: Mingling In The Egyptian Delta In The Third Intermediate Period / Marsha Hill -- Crossing Continents: Phoencian Art And How To Read It / Eric Gubel -- The Woman At The Window: Iconography And Influences Of A Motif In First-millennium B.c. Levantine Ivory Carving / Irene J. Winter -- The Art Of The Elephant And Its Consequences / Sarah B. Graff -- Iv. Art Of The Orientalizing Period: Greece, Cyprus, And Italy -- The Age Of Heroes: Greeks And Phoenicians On The Wine-dark Sea / John Boardman -- Contemplating An Empire: Artistic Responses To The Neo-assyrian World / Ann C. Gunter -- Consuming The East: Near Eastern Luxury Goods In Orientalizing Contexts / Marian H. Feldman -- Greek Sanctuaries And The Orient / Wolf-dietrich Niemeier -- Between Orient And Occident: The Iconography Of Cyprus / Annie Caubet -- From Lake Van To The Guadalquivir: Monsters And Vision In The Pre-classical Mediterranean / Nassos Papalexandrou -- Metalwork From The Levant To Iberia During The Early First Millennium B.c. / Hartmut Matthäus -- Eleutherna On Crete: The Wider Horizon / Nicholas Chr. Stampolidis -- The Etruscan Orientalizing: The View Form The Regolini-galassi Tomb / Maurizio Sannibale -- Greek Literature And The Lost Legacy Of Canaan / Carolina López-ruiz -- V. Epilogue -- Assyria To Iberia: Closing Remarks / Zainab Bahrani. Edited By Joan Aruz And Michael Seymour. The Essays In This Volume Are Based On Papers And Lectures Presented In Conjunction With The Exhibition Assyria To Iberia At The Dawn Of The Classical Age On View At The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York, From September 27, 2014, Through January 4, 2015--colophon. Includes Bibliographical References.