Ivories, Rock Reliefs and Merv

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Summary	This festschrift, celebrating Georgina Herrmann’s 85th birthday, encompasses 28 contributions. In accordance with significant topics of Georgina Hermann’s scholarly devotion they focus on Mesopotamian studies, Sasanian reliefs and Central Asian cultures. Studies examine ivories from Ugarit, Samaria, Hasanlu, Nimrud and other Levantine, Assyrian and Syrian sites. The history of documenting Sasanian rock reliefs by travellers and scholars using photographs and drawings is dealt with as well as the illustration of Aphrodite/Venus on Sasanian luxury vessels and the Parthian coins from Merv held in the collection of the Pushkin Museum.
Table of Contents	Editors’ note / Georgina Herrmann / Georgina Herrmann: Bibliography 1967–2021 IVORIES Annie Caubet: From Arslan Tash to Ugarit: Remarks on ivory beds, suckling cows and grazing deer Serena Maria Cecchini: The stele of Melqart: A reappraisal Megan Cifarelli: Another look at the Hasanlu ivories Paul Collins: Some thoughts on the Assyrian ivories from the Temple of Nabû at Nimrud Harriet Crawford: An essay on time and distance John Curtis: A bronze lotus flower handle from Nimrud Stephanie Dalley: Narrative art and the Hasanlu beaker: Proposal for a coherent interpretation linked to Gilgamesh Eric Gubel: Phoenician lionesses devouring Nubians and the Egyptian myth of the Distant Goddess (Decoding Phoenician Art – IV) Muzahim Mahmoud Hussein: Methods of draining and directing water discovered in the palaces and temples of Nimrud Stefania Mazzoni: Ivories in the debate on the Iron I–II archaeology of Syria Alan Millard: Fitters’ letters Julian Edgeworth Reade: Archaeological encounters in 1960s Iraq Elizabeth Simpson: Carved ivory plaques from Megaron 3 at Gordion Claudia E. Suter: An unusual ivory panel from Samaria and the composition and realia of banquet scenes in the Iron Age Levant Dirk Wicke: Images across media: Comparative remarks on some Levantine ivories and metal bowls ROCK RELIEFS Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis: Further thoughts on Varegna, the royal falcon, and Verethragna, the victorious warrior god Judith A. Lerner: Some thoughts on the so-called ‘Gayomard seals’ Prudence O. Harper: Sasanians reimagined: Four Qajar drawings Robert Hillenbrand: From rags to riches: The development of the zone of transition in pre-Mongol Iranian dome chambers John MacGinnis: A Parthian manor on the Lower Zab Bruno Overlaet: Sasanian royalty at Naqsh-i Rustam: Documenting and interpreting rock reliefs Ursula Seidl: Aphrodite mit Eros in der sasanidischen Kunst MERV Warwick Ball: ‘Little Merv’: Notes on Marv al-Rud, or ‘Merv of the River’ Antonio Invernizzi: A throne for Mithridates in Nisa? Ivory furnishings in Central Asia Kathy Judelson: Working alongside Georgina, 1992–2000 Gabriele Puschnigg: Sasanian perspectives: From antiquity to the medieval period Nataliya Smirnova: Parthian coins from Merv held in the collection of the Pushkin Museum (Moscow) Helen Wang: Money on the Silk Road – twenty years on COLOUR PLATES

Summary

This festschrift, celebrating Georgina Herrmann’s 85th birthday, encompasses 28 contributions. In accordance with significant topics of Georgina Hermann’s scholarly devotion they focus on Mesopotamian studies, Sasanian reliefs and Central Asian cultures. Studies examine ivories from Ugarit, Samaria, Hasanlu, Nimrud and other Levantine, Assyrian and Syrian sites. The history of documenting Sasanian rock reliefs by travellers and scholars using photographs and drawings is dealt with as well as the illustration of Aphrodite/Venus on Sasanian luxury vessels and the Parthian coins from Merv held in the collection of the Pushkin Museum.

Table of Contents

Editors’ note / Georgina Herrmann / Georgina Herrmann: Bibliography 1967–2021

IVORIES

Annie Caubet: From Arslan Tash to Ugarit: Remarks on ivory beds, suckling cows and grazing deer

Serena Maria Cecchini: The stele of Melqart: A reappraisal

Megan Cifarelli: Another look at the Hasanlu ivories

Paul Collins: Some thoughts on the Assyrian ivories from the Temple of Nabû at Nimrud

Harriet Crawford: An essay on time and distance

John Curtis: A bronze lotus flower handle from Nimrud

Stephanie Dalley: Narrative art and the Hasanlu beaker: Proposal for a coherent interpretation linked to Gilgamesh

Eric Gubel: Phoenician lionesses devouring Nubians and the Egyptian myth of the Distant Goddess (Decoding Phoenician Art – IV)

Muzahim Mahmoud Hussein: Methods of draining and directing water discovered in the palaces and temples of Nimrud

Stefania Mazzoni: Ivories in the debate on the Iron I–II archaeology of Syria

Alan Millard: Fitters’ letters

Julian Edgeworth Reade: Archaeological encounters in 1960s Iraq

Elizabeth Simpson: Carved ivory plaques from Megaron 3 at Gordion

Claudia E. Suter: An unusual ivory panel from Samaria and the composition and realia of banquet scenes in the Iron Age Levant

Dirk Wicke: Images across media: Comparative remarks on some Levantine ivories and metal bowls

ROCK RELIEFS

Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis: Further thoughts on Varegna, the royal falcon, and Verethragna, the victorious warrior god

Judith A. Lerner: Some thoughts on the so-called ‘Gayomard seals’

Prudence O. Harper: Sasanians reimagined: Four Qajar drawings

Robert Hillenbrand: From rags to riches: The development of the zone of transition in pre-Mongol Iranian dome chambers

John MacGinnis: A Parthian manor on the Lower Zab

Bruno Overlaet: Sasanian royalty at Naqsh-i Rustam: Documenting and interpreting rock reliefs

Ursula Seidl: Aphrodite mit Eros in der sasanidischen Kunst

MERV

Warwick Ball: ‘Little Merv’: Notes on Marv al-Rud, or ‘Merv of the River’

Antonio Invernizzi: A throne for Mithridates in Nisa? Ivory furnishings in Central Asia

Kathy Judelson: Working alongside Georgina, 1992–2000

Gabriele Puschnigg: Sasanian perspectives: From antiquity to the medieval period

Nataliya Smirnova: Parthian coins from Merv held in the collection of the Pushkin Museum (Moscow)

Helen Wang: Money on the Silk Road – twenty years on

COLOUR PLATES

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