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Dossiers d’Archéologie n° 332 mars/avril 2009
COORDINATION SCIENTIFIQUE :
Laura BATTINI, Chercheur au CNRS,
Université Lumière Lyon 2, UMR 5133 Archéorient,
Maison de l’Orient Méditerranéen
02 Maisons urbaines au Proche-Orient ancien
par Laura BATTINI et Pierre LOMBARD
04 Glossaire et carte
06 Les débuts des maisons urbaines
par Jean-Claude MARGUERON
10 La maison urbaine palestienne au Bronze ancien
par Deborah SEBAG
14 Les maisons du Levant au Bronze moyen
par Nicolò MARCHETTI
18 Les villas de marchands de Larsa
par Yves CALVET
22 Les maisons de Terqa au IIIe millénaire av. J.-C.
par Olivier ROUAULT
24 Les maisons d’Ougarit
par Olivier CALLOT
28 Les maisons à l’âge du Fer en Palestine
par Michaël JASMIN
33 Les maisons néo-assyriennes
par Laura BATTINI
34 Les maisons mésopotamiennes vues par les scribes
par Pierre VILLARD
38 Les “constructeurs” anciens
par Philippe ABRAHAMI
41 Plans de maison sur tablettes
par Philippe ABRAHAMI
42 La maison dans les contrats
par Olivier ROUAULT
46 Les contrats immobiliers d’Ougarit
par Carole ROCHE
48 La maison dans l’iconographie
par Béatrice MULLER
52 La maison dans les bas-relief
par Béatrice MULLER
54 Des maisons et des hommes à Ougarit à l’âge du Bronze
par Valérie MATOÏAN
58 La céramique de cuisine
par Valérie MATOÏAN
60 Bricolage antique à Tell Masaïkh (Syrie)
par Maria Grazia MASETTI-ROUAULT
62 Les maisons le jour et la nuit
par Laura BATTINI
69 Ras Shamra-Ougarit (Syrie) : des outils en silex dans les maisons d’une capitale
par Éric COQUEUGNIOT
70 Les cultes domestiques
par Pierre VILLARD
73 Les maquettes de maisons
par Maria Grazia MASETTI-ROUAULT
74 Un caveau à demeure pour les habitants d’Ougarit
par Sophie MARCHEGAY
78 La protection magique de la maison
par Philippe ABRAHAMI
79 Les tombes des enfants
par Laura BATTINI
80 La maison dans la ville
par Paolo MATTHIAE
84 Maisons des villes, maisons des champs
par Olivier AURENCHE
86 Tableau chronologique
Actualités / Brèves / Livres
The articles span the 3rd to the 1st millennium, with a special stress on the Neo-Assyrian period. They try to respond to many questions about representations of war:
what is warrior iconography and on what basis it can be defined? Did the war scenes follow a specific directory whereby they adopted the most varied forms? Can we determine the most usual conditions for the creation of pictures of wartime (such as periods of great change)? Were the war scenes referring to specific historical events or were they generic representations? What can a society accept from the representations of war? What did war images silence and why? What is a «just» punishment for enemies and thus the «just» representation of it? Who has control of the representation and therefore also the memory of war? Who is the real subject of war representations?
What emerges from the articles published here is the relevance of textual data in any analysis of iconological material. And this is not only true for iconology, but for all the archaeological material discovered at historical sites.
ISBN 978-1-78969-282-2
ISBN 978-1-78969-283-9 (e-pdf)
Chapters in the first section, ‘Architecture as Archive of Social Space,’ profile houses as records of the lives of inhabitants, changing and adapting with residents; many offer a background focus on how human behavior is shaped by the walls within one’s own home. All of the chapters in this section are united in their quest to answer two questions: ‘what is the nature of a house and household’ and ‘who lived in these household spaces?’
The middle section, ‘The Active Household,’ focuses on the evidence for how residents carried out household activities including work and food preparation. Chapters include the “heart of household archaeology” in their application of activity area research, but also drill down to the social significance of what residents were doing or eating, and where such actions were taking place.
The final section, “Ritual Space at Home,” features studies on the house as ritual space. Material culture and materialized household religion is adding important data and theory to this subfield of household archaeology, as the studies in this section demonstrate. This research fills important gaps in our knowledge of the archaeology of religion in various regions and time periods across the Near East.
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the Mesopotamian point of view include not only horses, donkeys, and hybrids, but also dromedaries, called in Sumerian “the donkeys of the sea countries”. The textual and iconographic documentation is more abundant for the horse, which has a strong symbolic value. However, even for the other equids data are richer than one would think. This article attempts to understand the functions, the ways of supplying, and the cost of equids. Given the quantities, equids were not old in the war. Horse, mule, and dromedary were used in the fights, while the donkeys were rather reserved for the transport of the weapons and provisions of the army. But the functions are not unambiguous: mules and donkeys were also used to transport the deportees. And the donkeys were used to build and repair the Assyrian camp. Finally, a secondary and limited use in case of
shortage could be food: not only milk, very nutritious, but also meat.
The fundamental novelty of the article is the invention of a method for determining whether the numbers of deportees given in the Annals are true or false. By calculating the tonnes of food that would have been needed each day for the deportees, and by calculating how long it would have taken the migrants to reach their final destination on foot, we come to the conclusion that the presumed number of deportees declared in the Annals needs to be revised downwards. On the other hand, the numbers reported in the Neo-Assyrian letters - a few hundred people, no more - are actually possible.
copyright : Mohr Siebeck Tübingen
Dossiers d’Archéologie n° 332 mars/avril 2009
COORDINATION SCIENTIFIQUE :
Laura BATTINI, Chercheur au CNRS,
Université Lumière Lyon 2, UMR 5133 Archéorient,
Maison de l’Orient Méditerranéen
02 Maisons urbaines au Proche-Orient ancien
par Laura BATTINI et Pierre LOMBARD
04 Glossaire et carte
06 Les débuts des maisons urbaines
par Jean-Claude MARGUERON
10 La maison urbaine palestienne au Bronze ancien
par Deborah SEBAG
14 Les maisons du Levant au Bronze moyen
par Nicolò MARCHETTI
18 Les villas de marchands de Larsa
par Yves CALVET
22 Les maisons de Terqa au IIIe millénaire av. J.-C.
par Olivier ROUAULT
24 Les maisons d’Ougarit
par Olivier CALLOT
28 Les maisons à l’âge du Fer en Palestine
par Michaël JASMIN
33 Les maisons néo-assyriennes
par Laura BATTINI
34 Les maisons mésopotamiennes vues par les scribes
par Pierre VILLARD
38 Les “constructeurs” anciens
par Philippe ABRAHAMI
41 Plans de maison sur tablettes
par Philippe ABRAHAMI
42 La maison dans les contrats
par Olivier ROUAULT
46 Les contrats immobiliers d’Ougarit
par Carole ROCHE
48 La maison dans l’iconographie
par Béatrice MULLER
52 La maison dans les bas-relief
par Béatrice MULLER
54 Des maisons et des hommes à Ougarit à l’âge du Bronze
par Valérie MATOÏAN
58 La céramique de cuisine
par Valérie MATOÏAN
60 Bricolage antique à Tell Masaïkh (Syrie)
par Maria Grazia MASETTI-ROUAULT
62 Les maisons le jour et la nuit
par Laura BATTINI
69 Ras Shamra-Ougarit (Syrie) : des outils en silex dans les maisons d’une capitale
par Éric COQUEUGNIOT
70 Les cultes domestiques
par Pierre VILLARD
73 Les maquettes de maisons
par Maria Grazia MASETTI-ROUAULT
74 Un caveau à demeure pour les habitants d’Ougarit
par Sophie MARCHEGAY
78 La protection magique de la maison
par Philippe ABRAHAMI
79 Les tombes des enfants
par Laura BATTINI
80 La maison dans la ville
par Paolo MATTHIAE
84 Maisons des villes, maisons des champs
par Olivier AURENCHE
86 Tableau chronologique
Actualités / Brèves / Livres
The articles span the 3rd to the 1st millennium, with a special stress on the Neo-Assyrian period. They try to respond to many questions about representations of war:
what is warrior iconography and on what basis it can be defined? Did the war scenes follow a specific directory whereby they adopted the most varied forms? Can we determine the most usual conditions for the creation of pictures of wartime (such as periods of great change)? Were the war scenes referring to specific historical events or were they generic representations? What can a society accept from the representations of war? What did war images silence and why? What is a «just» punishment for enemies and thus the «just» representation of it? Who has control of the representation and therefore also the memory of war? Who is the real subject of war representations?
What emerges from the articles published here is the relevance of textual data in any analysis of iconological material. And this is not only true for iconology, but for all the archaeological material discovered at historical sites.
ISBN 978-1-78969-282-2
ISBN 978-1-78969-283-9 (e-pdf)
Chapters in the first section, ‘Architecture as Archive of Social Space,’ profile houses as records of the lives of inhabitants, changing and adapting with residents; many offer a background focus on how human behavior is shaped by the walls within one’s own home. All of the chapters in this section are united in their quest to answer two questions: ‘what is the nature of a house and household’ and ‘who lived in these household spaces?’
The middle section, ‘The Active Household,’ focuses on the evidence for how residents carried out household activities including work and food preparation. Chapters include the “heart of household archaeology” in their application of activity area research, but also drill down to the social significance of what residents were doing or eating, and where such actions were taking place.
The final section, “Ritual Space at Home,” features studies on the house as ritual space. Material culture and materialized household religion is adding important data and theory to this subfield of household archaeology, as the studies in this section demonstrate. This research fills important gaps in our knowledge of the archaeology of religion in various regions and time periods across the Near East.
TO BUY: https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/Products/9781803271569
16 € ebook, 48€ paperback and pdf
the Mesopotamian point of view include not only horses, donkeys, and hybrids, but also dromedaries, called in Sumerian “the donkeys of the sea countries”. The textual and iconographic documentation is more abundant for the horse, which has a strong symbolic value. However, even for the other equids data are richer than one would think. This article attempts to understand the functions, the ways of supplying, and the cost of equids. Given the quantities, equids were not old in the war. Horse, mule, and dromedary were used in the fights, while the donkeys were rather reserved for the transport of the weapons and provisions of the army. But the functions are not unambiguous: mules and donkeys were also used to transport the deportees. And the donkeys were used to build and repair the Assyrian camp. Finally, a secondary and limited use in case of
shortage could be food: not only milk, very nutritious, but also meat.
The fundamental novelty of the article is the invention of a method for determining whether the numbers of deportees given in the Annals are true or false. By calculating the tonnes of food that would have been needed each day for the deportees, and by calculating how long it would have taken the migrants to reach their final destination on foot, we come to the conclusion that the presumed number of deportees declared in the Annals needs to be revised downwards. On the other hand, the numbers reported in the Neo-Assyrian letters - a few hundred people, no more - are actually possible.
copyright : Mohr Siebeck Tübingen
The boy is a half man and the little girl a half woman, since they wear the same clothes and headgear as adults and only their size is smaller. But the importance of the child is demonstrated by the textual sources and the number of his representations. In Sennacherib’s reliefs, age differences are reflected in height, attitudes and a few gestures. Assurbanipal only set one standard size for all children, 2/3 of an adult. Thus, in his reliefs, it is above all attitudes that suggest differences in age. Finally, a careful study of the bas-reliefs reveals family ties complicated by the sex and age of the children and by the more (female) or less important (male) social role of the parents.
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are so vague about the identification of the besieged city? Would Sennacherib have
wanted to suggest through Lachish the capture of Jerusalem, that his armies did never conquer? And how the arrangement of bas-reliefs in the palace and in the room, especially in relation to the light and audience, plays a role in the intellectual and emotional understanding of the royal message?
Book review of the preliminary reports of Mari, Terqa, Tell Masaikh et Tell Qabr Abu al-‘Atiq
Workshop organizers:
Laura Battini: [email protected]
Tallay Ornan: [email protected]
The modern cognitive theories have emphasized the differences between the image and the written, the first grasped immediately and globally, the secon comprehensible much slower and successively. This fruition more immediate and comprehensive of the images actually makes them the preferred vehicle of political and religious power for the transmission of specific messages executed by artists. And in an almost completely illiterate society, images are understood by everyone, even if at different reading levels. On the other hand, artisans and artists ‘indipendant’ (not working for the political and religious power) used the power of images to hit their public and so have a better and larger diffusion of human messages.
The individuation of the differences in public, in techniques, in messages between official work (artistic ) and unofficial (arts and crafts) will be an important goal of this event.
Four themes have been selected to facilitate discussions on the human image:
1 ) differences in status (divine/human, royal/human/servil);
2) gender differences (male/ female);
3) differences in age (children/ adults/older);
4) "different body" (beaten, humiliated, dismembered, grotesque…).
The analysis of these four themes will result in a vision of the "perfect" body and its opposites, for the different sexes, ages and status in a restricted geographical (Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine) and historical (III-I mill. BC) context.
November, 4-5, 2016, Lyon
"Another Look at Motherhood in Ancient Western Asia”
Deadline: February 15, 2024
Please, find here the contents of volume 4 which includes both the first and the second issues. A very interesting volume!
I wish you a good reading.
The deadline for abstract submissions is February 15, 2018.