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Introduction to ancient Near Eastern Art in the preclassical periods (circa 3500-500 BCE) - 5310
Last update 06-09-2016
HU Credits: 3
Degree/Cycle: 1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department: history of art
Academic year: 0
Semester: 1st Semester
Teaching Languages: Hebrew
Campus: Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator: Prof. Tallay Ornan
Coordinator Email: [email protected]
Coordinator Office Hours: Wednesday 12.00 noon -13.00 p.m by appointment
Teaching Staff:
Prof Tallay Ornan
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Course/Module description:
General and initial survey of ancient Near Eastern art dated from the last quarter
of the fourth to mid-first millennium, circa 3250-600/500 BC. The course will focus
on the visual records from the two major cultural entities that flourished during the
above chronological framework in the Euphrates and the Tigris Valley Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) - and in the Nile Valley – Egypt. This survey will be
complemented by three lectures dealing with: 1. Hittite art as developed in the
second millennium (2000-1000 BC) in Anatolia (modern Turkey). 2. The art of Syria
from the mid-third to mid-first millennium (2500-700 BC). 3. Visual records from the
southern Levant: Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan. The artistic traditions of the ancient
Near East will be examined by a selection of major archaeological finds that include
reliefs, wall paintings, architectural components, statues, statuettes, clay plaques,
seals, jewelry, and pottery paintings.
Course/Module aims:
To provide the students with the basic principles of ancient Near East art through
focusing on their difference from the modern Western concepts of art. To offer
initial methodological tools for a correct ‘reading’ of the ancient Near Eastern
visual representations and their comprehension within their cultural-historical
contexts. To pinpoint, when relevant, the influence of ancient Near Eastern imagery
on ancient Greek art.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be
able to:
The students will be able to recognize major ancient Near Eastern artifacts and
comprehend the set of principles that govern their making. They will be able to
understand the role of the ancient Near Eastern art in its ideological setting and, to
a certain degree, classify ancient Near Eastern artistic products into their cultural
spheres and chronological framework.
Attendance requirements(%):
100%
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: Frontal lectures with Power Point
accompanied by weekly guiding-classes delivered by Ms. Dana Peled
Course/Module Content:
These classes will be accompanied by guiding-classes that will include
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introductions to Aegean & Persian-Achaemenid art
1.The principals of visual representations in the ancient Near east
2.Tombs & temples in Egypt: the Archaic and Old Kingdom periods, dynasties 0-3
3.Reliefs & statues in Old Kingdom Egypt, dynasties 4-6
4.Pharaohs & queens, courtiers & commoners: royal & nobles’ tombs in the Middle
Kingdom
5.Looking beyond the borders & the beginning of the pictorial narrative: the New
Kingdom period (I)
6.The art revolution in the Amarna period: the New Kingdom period (II)
7.The early Sumerian period in Mesopotamia & the context of the early cities
8.Representations of worshippers, burial of kings, the display of the war narrative:
Sumerian art during the Early Dynastic period
9.The power of rule & the quest for upgrading kings: Old Akkadian art & NeoSumerian response in the late 3rd millennium BC Mesopotamian imagery
10.Mesopotamian art during the dynasty of Hammurabi in the Old Babylonian
period; gods and their symbols in the Middle Babylonian period
11.Art in an imperial age: first-millennium BC Neo-Assyrian & Neo-Babylonian
imagery
12.Second-millennium BC Hittite art in Anatolia and its reflections in first-millennium
north-Syrian imagery
13.The second-millennium BC prosperous artistic tradition in the major cities of
Syria: Ebla, Mari, and Ugarit
14.Visual imagery in the southern Levant: Lebanon, Jordan and Israel.
Required Reading:
,‫ על הנראה ועל הנכתב – ממצא חזותי ועדויות כתובות אודות חומבבא ופר השמיים‬,‫אורנן ט' תשס"ג‬
.32-18 '‫ עמ‬,‫ ירושלים‬,‫ ספר ח' ומ' תדמור‬,‫ מחקרים בידיעת הארץ ועתיקותיה‬,‫ארץ ישראל כ"ז‬
,‫ י' גייגר‬,‫ בתוך מ' קיסטר‬,‫ לפסה"נ‬600–1000 ‫ אלים וסמלים בארץ ישראל‬,(2008) ‫ תשס"ח‬,'‫אורנן ט‬
‫ מן האלף‬,‫ישראל ושכנותיה בעת העתיקה‬-‫ הפוליתאיזם בארץ‬,‫ אלי קדם‬,‫ ש' שקד עורכים‬,‫נ' נאמן‬
/89-64 ,‫ ירושלים‬,‫השני לפנה"ס ועד עליית האיסלאם‬
‫ לבירור המסורת האיקונוגרפית של כלי הפולחן שנתגלו בארץ‬:‫ כני הפולחן מתענך‬,1990 ' ‫בק פ‬
‫ היבטים ארכיאולוגיים והיסטוריים‬,‫ מנוודות למלוכה‬,‫ עורכים‬,‫ נ 'נאמן וי' פינקלשטין‬,'‫בתקופת הברזל א‬
446-417 '‫ עמ‬,‫ ירושלים‬,‫על ראשית ישראל‬
.‫ ירושלים‬,‫ משלים מספרות מצרים העתיקה‬,‫ מזמורים‬,‫ סיפורים‬,1975 '‫גרינץ י' מ‬
‫ תל אביב‬,(‫ המיתולוגיה המצרית )סדרת מיתוסים‬,‫ישראלי ש' תשס"ה‬
‫ ארץ‬,‫ מה קרה בסוכת הגפנים – עיון מחודש בתבליט משתה הגן של אשורבניפל‬,‫ציפר ע' תשס"ג‬
204-211 '‫ עמ‬,‫ ירושלים‬,‫ ספר ח' ומ' תדמור‬,‫ מחקרים בידיעת הארץ ועתיקותיה‬,‫ישראל כ"ז‬
Aldred C. 1980, Egyptian Art, London
Allen J. et al 1999, Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids, The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York.
Aruz J. ed. 2003, Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the
Mediterranean to the Indus (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), New York.
‫הדרכות‬/‫עמודים לקריאה ימסרו בשיעורים‬
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Aruz J. et al. eds. 2008, Beyond Babylon: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second
Millennium B.C (The metropolitan Museum of Art), New Haven and London.
‫הדרכות‬/‫עמודים לקריאה ימסרו בשיעורים‬
Aruz J. et al. eds. 2014, Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age (The
Metropolitan Museum of Art), New Haven and London, 52-74.
Collon D. 1987, First Impressions, Cylinder Seals in the Ancient Near East, London.
‫הדרכות‬/‫עמודים לקריאה ימסרו בשיעורים‬
Collon D. 1995, Ancient Near Eastern Art, London.
Collon D. 2005, The Queen of the Night (British Museum Objects in Focus), London.
Faulkner R.O 1989, The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, London
Ornan T. 2005, The Triumph of the Symbol, Pictorial Representation of Deities in
Mesopotamia and the Biblical Image Ban (OBO 213), Fribourg and G‫צ‬ttingen
Ornan T. 2010, Divine Love: Nana, Ningal and their Entourage on a Clay Plaque, in
W. Horowitz, U. Gabbay, F. Vukosavovi eds., A Woman of Valor: Jerusalem Ancient
Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Joan Goodnick Westenholz, Madrid, 115–39.
Reade J. 1998, Assyrian Sculpture, London.
Schmandt-Besserat D. 1993, Images of Enship, in M. Frangipane, M. Liverani, P.
Matthiae, M. Mellink, M., H. Hauptmann (eds.), Between the Rivers and Over the
Mountains, Archaeological Anatolica et Mesopotamia Alba Palmiere Dedicata, Rome,
201-219.
Suter C. E. 2000, Gudea’s Temple Buildings, The Representations of an Early
Mesopotamian Ruler in Text and Image, Groningen. ‫ימסרו לקריאה עמודים‬
‫הדרכות‬/‫בשיעורים‬
Zettler R.L. & Horne L. eds., 1998, Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur (University
of Pennsylvania Museum), Philadelphia. ‫בהדרכות ימסרו לקריאה עמודים‬
Wren L.H. & Wren D.J. 1988, Perspectives on Western Art; Source Documents and
Readings from the Ancient Near East through the Middle Ages, New York.
‫עמודים לקריאה ימסרו בהדרכות‬
Additional Reading Material:
Baines J. and M‫ב‬lek J. 1980, Atlas of Ancient Egypt, Oxford.
Black J. & Green A. 1992, Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia, An
Illustrated Dictionary, London.
Frankfort H. 1996, The Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient (revised 5th
edition with supplementary notes and additional bibliography and abbreviations by
Michael Roaf & Donald Matthews), New Haven.
Kuhrt A. 1995, The Ancient Near East, c. 3000-330 BC. I-II, London and New York
(paperback edition 1997).
Roaf M. 1990, Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East, New York &
Oxford.
Robins, G., 1997, The Art of Ancient Egypt, Cambridge, Mass.
Sasson J. M. et al. eds. 1995, Civilizations of the Ancient Near East (CANE) I-IV, New
York.
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Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 90 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 5 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 5 %
attendance in class
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