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ARCH 0351 / AWAS 0800
Introduction to the Ancient Near East
Department of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian StudiesJoukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
Brown University ~ Fall 2009
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Door to the Oriental Institute at Chicago, established in 1919 by James Henry Breasted "as a laboratory for the study of the rise and development of ancient civilization".
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The torch of civilizationTympanum over the entrance to the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago
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Ankara: the contemporary ancient past
An Early Bronze age ritual standard,Alacahoyuk, Turkey
Hittite biscuits
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Possessingthe ancient past(contemporary colonialisms)in the Middle East
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Looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad
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Where is Babylon?
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Three Babylons
Babylon, Ishtar Gate6th c. BC
Babylon, archaeological site, military base21th c. AD
Babylon, Tower of Babel16th c. AD Pieter Brueghel, the Elder (1525-1569)
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Seven Wonders of the World(or... the medieval European imagination of antiquity) Hanging Gardens of Babylon
idea of paradeisos: exotic royal garden in the ancient Near East?
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Babylon: modern imaginations
Alejandro González Iñárritu (dir). 2006 Situationist Utopian city “New Babylon” by Dutchartist Constant Nieuwenhuys
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Babylonian map of the world (“mappa mundi”) on clay tabletEarly-mid 1st millennium BC. Probably from Borsippa, Southern Iraq. Now in British Museum.
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Creatures of Marduk beyond the marrutu (river-ocean)
the anzû-bird, the scorpion-man (girtablullû), sea-serpent (mušhuššu), gazelle (armu, sabītu), zebu, water-buffalo (apsasû), panther (nimru), bull-man (kusarikku), lion (nēšu), wolf (barbaru), red-deer (lulīmu), hyena (būsu), male/female monkey (pagû/pagītu), ibex (turāhu), ostrich (lurmu), cat (šurānu), chameleon (hurbabillu).
The “known world” and its fictitious mytho-poetic margins.
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Babylon = Babili = TIN.TIRKI
Image of the city in Babylonian “topographical texts”
“Babylon, the bond of heaven and the underworld,Babylon, the city of festivals, rejoicing and dancing,Babylon, the city whose people continually celebrate festivals,Babylon, the sacred city,Babylon, which is granted full measure of wisdom,Babylon, which recites a spell for all creation,Babylon, house of reason and counsel”
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Uruk
Ur
Nippur
Hattusha
Karkamish
Kalhu
Nineveh
Babylon
Persepolis
Jerusalem
Medes
Chaldeans
Assyria
Urartu
Phrygia
Lydia
Pheonicians
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Three Babylons: three spectacles, three sites of historical representation
Babylon: Ishtar Gate6th c. BCNeo-Babylonian kingdom
Babylon: archaeological site, military base21th c. AD
Babylon: Tower of Babel16th c. AD Pieter Brueghel, the Elder (1525-1569)
urban spectacle mytho-poetic imagination political conflict
Sedimentation of history: the making of a powerful place
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Babylon transported:many babylons
Where is Babylon?
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