The master of animals in old world iconography
By: edited by Derek B. Counts and Bettina Arnold
Series: Archaeolingua -- v. 24; Archaeolingua -- v. 24.
Publisher: Archaeolingua Alapítvíány
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Budapest
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9789639911147
Subjects: Animals in art; Animals; Symbolic aspects; Human-animal relationships in art; Animals, Mythical, in art; Gods in art; Symbolism in art
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prolegomenon: the many masks of the master of animals  -- Bettina Arnold, Derek B. Counts; title: Mesopotamian "nude hero": context and interpretations  -- Sarah Costello; title: Master of animals and animal masters in the iconography of the Indus tradition  -- Jonathan Mark Kenoyer; title: Animal mastery in Hittite art and texts  -- Billie Jean Collins; title: Aegean master of animals: the evidence of the seals, signets, and sealings  -- Janice L. Crowley; title: Minoan animal-human hybridity  -- Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw; title: Big nowhere: a master of animals in the throne room at Knossos?  -- Louise A. Hitchcock; title: Where the wild things were: the Greek master of animals in ecological perspective  -- Susan Langdon; title: Divine symbols and royal aspirations: the master of animals in Iron Age Cypriote religion  -- Derek B. Counts; title: Heroic encounter in the visual arts of ancient Iraq and Iran ca. 1000-500 BC  -- Mark Garrison; title: Agency, hybridity, and transmutation: human-animal symbolism and mastery among early Eurasian Steppe societies  -- Bryan K. Hanks; title: Beasts of the forest and beasts of the field: animal sacrifice, hunting symbolism, and the master of animals in pre-Roman Iron Age Europe  -- Bettina Arnold; title: Mistress and master: the politics of iconography in pre-Roman central Italy  -- Anthony Tuck; title: Mistress of animals, the master of animals: two complementary or oppositional religious concepts in early Celtic art?  -- Martin Guggisberg; title: Meaning in motif and ornament: the face between the creatures in mid-first-millennium AD temperate Europe -- Peter S. Wells.