Assyrian reliefs from the palace of Ashurnasirpal II: a cultural biography

List of illustrations

Foreword

Preface

Ch. 1. "Our Nineveh enterprise" / Ada Cohen and Steven E. Kangas

Plates

Ch. 2. The early exploration of Assyria / Julian Reade

Ch. 3. Archaeology and politics in Iraq : from the British mandate to Saddam Hussein / James F. Goode

Ch. 4. Assyria in the Bible / Susan Ackerman

Ch. 5. Decorations, political posters, time capsules, and living gods : the meaning and function of the Assyrian palace carvings in the Hood Museum of Art / Barbara N. Porter

Ch. 6. "Time and eternity" in the northwest palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud / Mehmet-Ali Ataì

Ch. 7. Attending the king in the Assyrian reliefs / Paul Collins

Ch. 8. Banquets, baubles, and bronzes : material comforts in the Neo-Assyrian palaces / Allison Karmel Thomason

Ch. 9. The Northwest palace in the digital age / Samuel M. Paley with the collaboration of Donald H. Sanders

Notes

References

List of contributors

Index.