2013 כתרים ומלכים, עטרות וניצחונות

Keywords: arts and architecture; cultural history; Egyptian history; government, politics, and law; ideology; image; monarchy; political history

2017

2023

Course Description: This course looks at jewelry throughout history and from around the world. We will explore aesthetics, design, materials, and production techniques across cultures. We will investigate the role of adornment in conveying gender and identity, and also consider cultural perspectives of jewelry as sacred and magical. Prerequisite(s): N/A Co-requisite(s): N/A Learning Goals: Students who successfully complete this course will develop the visual skills and critical vocabulary for identifying, describing, and contextualizing works of jewelry representative of diverse world cultures. Students will develop a critical, interdisciplinary approach to jewelry, incorporating art historical, anthropological, fashion, and identity theory. We will study jewelry, itself, as a primary resource, considering individual elements of jewelry and their incorporation into dress ensembles. In addition, we will consider the representation of jewelry elements and ensembles in art, literature, and contemporary media to better understand its roles in various culture.

2018

This paper focuses on an inscribed bead (AO 31928), formerly kept in the collection of Jean-Alain Mariaud de Serres (1920-1999), which the Musée du Louvre acquired in a public sale in 2003. The legend engraved on the bead reveals its name – it is a “neck stone (lit.: stone of the neck)” (NA4.GU2) – and provides further remarks on its owner, Aššur-iddin, who was the Palace Herald of Shalmaneser (Salmānu-ašarēd).

The Shekel, 2021

An Egyptian medal with text in Hebrew and Arabic depicts a Karaite synagogue in Cairo. The background and fate of the Karatite community in Egypt is discussed along with the medal and its illustration.

The 140-page “Catalogue of the Liturgical Metalwork,” describes, illustrates, and presents all inscriptions on each of some 100 of the most important pieces of Armenian Church from the large and historical collection of formerly part of the treasury of the Catholicosate of Cilicia in Sis, now the core of the Cilician Museum in Antelias, Lebanon at the seat of the Holy See of Cilicia. It represents one of the most important and authentic pre-Genocide collections of Armenian religious art to have reached us. Despite centuries of invasion and strife by determined enemies of the Cilician state and its catholicosate, including the final solution of the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire in 1915, which resulted in the total destruction of its former capital and religious headquarters of seven centuries, these objects survived. Thanks to the desperate attempt on the part of a few clergymen to save as many of its important movable and sanctified liturgical treasures, a miraculous and representative collection is now securely preserved to be visited and admired by Armenians and non-Armenians alike. The collection is a tribute to those spiritual leaders who sacrificed everything to preserve these inanimate relics that have been touched by the grace of centuries of faith and reverence. The catalogue is divided into four parts: I. Reliquaries, pp. 158-188; II. Chalices, pp. 189-217; III. Silver Bindings, pp. 218-249; IV. Miscellaneous Liturgical Objects and Xač‘k‘ars, pp. 250-283. The work will be presented in four posts each followed by the Notes, Glossary of Technical Terms, Liturgical Vessels, Bibliography, pp. 284-297.

A summary of types, uses and geographical distribution of, as well as sources for, Egyptian royal and divine crowns, for the forthcoming publication: Chr Uehliger (et al.) (eds), Iconography of Deities and Demons in the Biblical World (Catalog and illustrations of crowns are not included at this point; since it looks like it will still be some time before the official publication of the work, I would like to invite interested scholars to peruse and - if so inclined - send comments. (Egyptologists please note that the structure of the article had to be adapted to the IDD's requirements, so that some of the subsections are not what one might call "obvious choices").