Die Festschrift zum 85. Geburtstag von Georgina Herrmann umfasst 28 Beiträge. Entsprechend den Schwerpunkten von Georgina Herrmanns wissenschaftlichem Werk konzentrieren sie sich auf Mesopotamien, sassanidische Reliefs und zentralasiatische Kulturen. Zahlreiche Studien untersuchen Elfenbein-Arbeiten aus Ugarit, Samaria, Hasanlu, Nimrud und anderen levantinischen, assyrischen und syrischen Stätten. Die Geschichte der fotografischen und zeichnerischen Dokumentation sassanidischer Felsreliefs durch Reisende und Gelehrte wird ebenso behandelt wie die Darstellung von Aphrodite/Venus auf sassanidischen Luxusgefäßen und die parthischen Münzen aus Merv in der Sammlung des Puschkin-Museums.

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  

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