Title: Gilgamesch : Ikonographie eines Helden = Gilgamesh : epic and iconography /
Authors: Steymans, Hans Ulrich.
Publisher: Academic Press ; Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Gilgamesh Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Gilgamesh Art.; Art, Assyro-Babylonian
Abstract: "This collection of articles has two aims: The first is to create a comprehensive compendium of iconography on Gilgamesh, that includes three formerly published and several new papers on the visual representation of Gilgamesh. The second is to publish some objects of Near Eastern art from the Bible+Orient Collection in Fribourg, which relate to Gilgamesh."--Summary.
Contents: Das Gilgames̆-Epos und die Ikonographie / Hans Ulrich Steymans -- Von der Archäologie zur Iconographie. Methodengeschichtliche Einordnung der Beiträge dieses Bandes / Hans Ulrich Steymans -- Gilgamesch und Enkidu in der bildenden Kunst / Ruth Opificius -- Gilgamesh in literature and art: the second and first millennia / Wilfred G. Lambert -- The depiction of giants / Dominique Collon -- Gilgames̆ im Wandel der Zeit / Catherine Mittermayer -- Gilgames̆ in old Akkadian Glyptic / Douglas Frayne -- Gilgames̆: Der Zug zum Zedernwald / Ursula Seidl -- Humbaba, the bull of heaven and teh contribution of images to the reconstruction of the Gilgames̆ epic / Tallay Ornan -- Representations and resonances of Gilgamesh in Neo-Assyrian art / Mehmet-Ali Ataç -- Gilgames̆ im Westen / Hans Ulrich Steymans.