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I am Ashurbanipal : king of the world, king of Assyria / edited by Gareth Brereton.

"In 668 BCE Ashurbanipal inherited the largest empire in the world, stretching from the shores of the eastern Mediterranean to the mountains of western Iran. He ruled from his massive capital at Nineveh, in present-day Iraq, where temples and palaces adorned with brilliantly carved sculptures d...

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Main Authors: Brereton, Gareth (Author, Editor), Reade, Julian (Author), Collins, Paul (Paul Thomas) (Author), Finkel, Irving L. (Author), Taylor, J. (Jonathan) (Author), Tubb, Jonathan N. (Author), Kiely, Thomas Michael, 1971- (Author), Zimansky, Paul E. (Author), Ḥasanʹzādah, Yūsuf, 1981 or 1982- (Author), Curtis, John, 1946- (Author), Bridey, François (Author), Novotny, Jamie R. (Author), Watanabe, Chikako E. (Author), Nadali, Davide (Author), Goldstein, Ronnie (Author), Weissert, Elnathan (Author), MacGinnis, John (Author), McCall, Henrietta (Author), Almutrb, Falih (Author), Rey, Sébastien, 1981- (Author)
Other title:At head of title: BP exhibition.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : London, England : Thames & Hudson ; in collaboration with the British Museum, 2018.
Subjects:
Ashurbanipal, > King of Assyria, > active 668 B.C.-627 B.C. > Exhibitions.
Assyria > History > Exhibitions.
Assyria > Civilization > Exhibitions.
Assyria > Antiquities > Exhibitions.
Ashurbanipal, > King of Assyria, > active 668 B.C.-627 B.C.
Antiquities.
Civilization.
Middle East > Assyria.
Exhibition catalogs.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Nineveh: the centre of the world. I am Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria / Gareth Brereton
  • Ashurbanipal's palace at Nineveh / Julian Edgeworth Reade
  • Life at court / Paul Collins
  • The Assyrian royal hunt / Julian Edgeworth Reade
  • Ashurbanipal's library: contents and significance / Irving Finkel
  • Ashurbanipal's empire. The Neo-Assyrian empire / Gareth Brereton
  • The Levant and Assyria / Jonathan N. Tubb
  • Cyprus and Assyria / Thomas Kiely
  • The kingdom of Urartu / Paul Zimanksy
  • Western Iran in the Iron Age / Yousef Hassanzadeh and John Curtis
  • Susa and the kingdom of Elam in the Neo-Elamite period / François Bridey
  • Violence into order. Ashurbanipal's campaigns / Jamie Novotny
  • Reading Ashurbanipal's palace reliefs: methods of presenting visual narratives / Chikako E. Watanabe
  • The battle of Til-Tuba in the south-west palace: context and iconography / Davide Nadali
  • The battle of Til-Tuba cycle and the documentary evidence / Ronnie Goldstein and Elnathan Weissert
  • Collapse, rediscovery and revival. The fall of Assyria and the aftermath of the empire / John MacGinnis
  • Nineveh rediscovered / Julian Edgeworth Reade
  • Assyrian revival / Henrietta McCall
  • The future of Iraqi cultural heritage under threat / Jonathan N. Tubb, Falih Almutrb and Sebastien Rey.

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