Assyria to Iberia: Art and Culture in the Iron Age

Aruz, Joan and Michael Seymour eds.

2016

376 pages

315 illustrations

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The exhibition "Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age" (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2014) offered a comprehensive overview of art and cultural exchange in an era of vast imperial and mercantile expansion. The twenty-seven essays in this volume are based on the symposium and lectures that took place in conjunction with the exhibition. Written by an international group of scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, they include reports of new archaeological discoveries, illuminating interpretations of material culture, and innovative investigations of literary, historical, and political aspects of the interactions that shaped art and culture in the in the early first millennium B.C. Taken together, these essays explore the cultural encounters of diverse populations interacting through trade, travel, and migration, as well as war and displacement, in the ancient world. Assyria to Iberia: Art and Culture in the Iron Age contributes significantly to our understanding of the epoch-making exchanges that spanned the Near East and the Mediterranean and exerted immense influence in the centuries that followed.

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Pendants and beads, Gold, Babylonian — Pendants and beads
Babylonian
ca. 18th–17th century BCE

Bronze bowl, Bronze, Cypriot — Bronze bowl
Cypriot
8th century BCE

Terracotta female figure in three-legged chair, Terracotta, Helladic, Mycenaean — Terracotta female figure in three-legged chair
Helladic, Mycenaean
13th century BCE

Head of a female figure, Ivory, Assyrian — Head of a female figure
Assyrian
ca. 8th century BCE

Relief fragment: cavalrymen along a stream in mountainous terrain, Gypsum alabaster, Assyrian — Relief fragment: cavalrymen along a stream in mountainous terrain
Assyrian
ca. 704–681 BCE

Cuneiform tablet: commentary on Enuma Anu Enlil, tablet 5, Clay — Cuneiform tablet: commentary on Enuma Anu Enlil, tablet 5
ca. late 1st millennium BCE

Model tambourine with rosette border, Bastet on one side, her boat with naos on the other, Faience — Model tambourine with rosette border, Bastet on one side, her boat with naos on the other
ca. 1070–712 B.C.

Nude female figure holding a vase on her head, Faience — Nude female figure holding a vase on her head
ca. 945–525 B.C.

Human-headed cat, Faience — Human-headed cat
ca. 945–525 B.C.

Nude female holding monkeys, Pale blue faience — Nude female holding monkeys
ca. 945–525 B.C.

Woman with a lyre, Faience — Woman with a lyre
ca. 945–525 B.C.

Bes-image Rattle, Faience — Bes-image Rattle
ca. 945–664 BC

Parrying Dagger

Spanish or Italian

1600

Monkey and Man Playing Instruments, Faience — Monkey and Man Playing Instruments
ca. 945–525 B.C.

Furniture plaque carved in relief with lion-headed figure, Ivory, Assyrian — Furniture plaque carved in relief with lion-headed figure
Assyrian
ca. 8th–7th century BCE

Fragment of a faience statuette of a woman holding a vase on her head, Faience, East Greek — Fragment of a faience statuette of a woman holding a vase on her head
East Greek
late 7th–6th century BCE

Figure of a man with an oryx, a monkey, and a leopard skin, Ivory, Assyrian — Figure of a man with an oryx, a monkey, and a leopard skin
Assyrian
ca. 8th century BCE

Furniture plaque carved in high relief with two Egyptianizing figures flanking a volute tree, Ivory, Assyrian — Furniture plaque carved in high relief with two Egyptianizing figures flanking a volute tree
Assyrian
ca. 9th–8th century BCE

Openwork furniture plaque with a "woman at the window", Ivory, Assyrian — Openwork furniture plaque with a "woman at the window"
Assyrian
ca. 8th century BCE

Horse frontlet carved in relief with a female figure flanked by lions, Ivory, Assyrian — Horse frontlet carved in relief with a female figure flanked by lions
Assyrian
ca. 9th–8th century BCE

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Aruz, Joan, and Michael J. Seymour. 2016. Assyria to Iberia: Art and Culture in the Iron Age. Metropolitan Museum of Art Symposia. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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