In Context: the Reade Festschrift

Irving Finkel, St John Simpson

• Publisher: Archaeopress Archaeology
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9781789696073
• eBook ISBN:
  9781789696080
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Archaeology
• Index: Social Sciences

In Context: the Reade Festschrift is a collection of invited and peer-reviewed essays by friends and colleagues of Julian Edgeworth Reade, sometime Mesopotamia curator at the British Museum from 1975 to 2000. Its coverage is designed to reflect the breadth of the recipient's professional interests, from Assyria and Mesopotamia in general, to the relations between Mesopotamia and other regions and the impact of nineteenth-century discoveries on the field of Assyriology. They include both syntheses and archaeological research, as well as reports on archival discoveries. Context is always crucial. Here is fresh work from which any reader can gain a new appreciation of the importance of the ancient Near East.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright page
• Contents Page
• Preface
• J.E. Reade: a bibliography of works (1963-2020)
• PART ONE
• Mesopotamia
• Daesh granaries and Palaeolithic Nineveh
• Ur, Lagash and the Gutians:
• a study of late 3rd millennium BC Mesopotamian archaeology, texts and politics
• New light on an old game
• A Seleucid cult of Sumerian royal ancestors in Girsu
• The sins of Nippur
• A royal chariot for Sargon II
• The gods of Arbail
• The development of Neo-Assyrian narrative art: toward Assurbanipal’s Ulai river reliefs
• The harpist’s left hand: A detail from the ‘Banquet Scene’ of Assurbanipal in the North Palace at Nineveh
• The population of Nineveh
• Annihilating Assyria
• PART TWO
• Foreign connections
• Bleached carnelian beads of the Indus Tradition, 3rd millennium BC: origins and variations
• Iconographic evidence of Mesopotamian influence on Harappan ideology and its survival in the royal rites of the Veda and Hinduism
• Iconographic evidence of Mesopotamian influence on Harappan ideology
• The Joint Hadd Project and the Early Bronze Age in south-east Arabia
• The location of Mešta in archaeological context
• Assyrians in Transjordan
• Of Kushite kings and sacred landscapes in the Middle Nile valley
• PART THREE
• Discovery and reception
• ‘Un coup terrible de la fortune:’ A. Clément and the Qurna disaster of 1855
• The William Kennett Loftus legacy to the north: Near Eastern materials in Newcastle upon Tyne
• ‘Two unpublished drawings of excavations at Nimrud’ revisited
• A bit of a bull and a bit of a puzzle
• George Scharf and Assyrian sculpture
• Casting the ruins: creating Assyria through plaster and paint1
• Casting the ruins: creating Assyria through plaster and paint
• Index
• Back cover