Bodies of stone and clay : perception and images of living beings in Mesopotamia in the 2nd and 1st mill. BC.

Organized by Laura Battini with Anne-Isabelle Langlois.

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Symposium

09:30 - 10:15

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Bodies and Gender in Ancient Near Eastern Studies: a Historiographical Approach

A. Garcia-Ventura

09 Nov 2017

Bodies of stone and clay : perception and images of living beings in Mesopotamia in the 2nd and 1st mill. BC.

Amphithéâtre Guillaume Budé, Site Marcelin Berthelot

Real Human Bodies, Images of Bodies and the Time Factor in the Early Cultures of Mesopotamia and Syria

R. Dolce

09 Nov 2017

Bodies of stone and clay : perception and images of living beings in Mesopotamia in the 2nd and 1st mill. BC.

Amphithéâtre Guillaume Budé, Site Marcelin Berthelot

Natural or Supernatural? The Giant as a Concept of Ideal Body

N. May

09 Nov 2017

Bodies of stone and clay : perception and images of living beings in Mesopotamia in the 2nd and 1st mill. BC.

Amphithéâtre Guillaume Budé, Site Marcelin Berthelot

The impact of materials on form : the nature of the support and how body attitudes are represented

B. Muller

09 Nov 2017

Bodies of stone and clay : perception and images of living beings in Mesopotamia in the 2nd and 1st mill. BC.

Salle 2, Site Marcelin Berthelot

Mesopotamian scholars' vision and divisions of the body

V. Chalendar

09 Nov 2017

Bodies of stone and clay : perception and images of living beings in Mesopotamia in the 2nd and 1st mill. BC.

Salle 2, Site Marcelin Berthelot

Investigating Attitudes Towards Age in the Pictorial Representations of the Ancient Near East: an Elusive Concept for Analysis?

S. Di Paolo

09 Nov 2017

Bodies of stone and clay : perception and images of living beings in Mesopotamia in the 2nd and 1st mill. BC.

Salle 2, Site Marcelin Berthelot

The body in Paleo-Babylonian letters

A.-I. Langlois

09 Nov 2017

Bodies of stone and clay : perception and images of living beings in Mesopotamia in the 2nd and 1st mill. BC.

Salle 2, Site Marcelin Berthelot

Body Proportions of Second Millennium BC Figurines

A. Pruss

10 Nov 2017

Bodies of stone and clay : perception and images of living beings in Mesopotamia in the 2nd and 1st mill. BC.

Salle 2, Site Marcelin Berthelot

"Don't you Have a Beard on Your Chin?" (ARM I,108): Beards as Secondary Male Markers in 2nd millennium BC Mesopotamia

T. Ornan

10 Nov 2017

Bodies of stone and clay : perception and images of living beings in Mesopotamia in the 2nd and 1st mill. BC.

Salle 2, Site Marcelin Berthelot

The eye through images, anatomy, pathology

A. Attia

10 Nov 2017

Bodies of stone and clay : perception and images of living beings in Mesopotamia in the 2nd and 1st mill. BC.

Salle 2, Site Marcelin Berthelot

Have you seen the man whose body is abandoned in the desert ? I have seen him, his eṭemmu does not rest in the Underworld... The fate of the body beyond death in Mesopotamia

V. Van der Stede

10 Nov 2017

Bodies of stone and clay : perception and images of living beings in Mesopotamia in the 2nd and 1st mill. BC.

Salle 2, Site Marcelin Berthelot

Written in the body : predestination, physiognomy and mutilation in ancient Mesopotamia

L. Verderame

10 Nov 2017

Bodies of stone and clay : perception and images of living beings in Mesopotamia in the 2nd and 1st mill. BC.

Salle 2, Site Marcelin Berthelot

Bodies of stone and clay : perception and images of living beings in Mesopotamia in the ^2nd and ^1st mill. BC.

Documents and media

Program

Bodies and Gender in Ancient Near Eastern Studies: a Historiographical Approach

Real Human Bodies, Images of Bodies and the Time Factor in the Early Cultures of Mesopotamia and Syria

Natural or Supernatural? The Giant as a Concept of Ideal Body

The impact of materials on form : the nature of the support and how body attitudes are represented

Mesopotamian scholars' vision and divisions of the body

Investigating Attitudes Towards Age in the Pictorial Representations of the Ancient Near East: an Elusive Concept for Analysis?

The body in Paleo-Babylonian letters

Body Proportions of Second Millennium BC Figurines

"Don't you Have a Beard on Your Chin?" (ARM I,108): Beards as Secondary Male Markers in 2nd millennium BC Mesopotamia

The eye through images, anatomy, pathology

Have you seen the man whose body is abandoned in the desert ? I have seen him, his eṭemmu does not rest in the Underworld... The fate of the body beyond death in Mesopotamia

Written in the body : predestination, physiognomy and mutilation in ancient Mesopotamia

Body Alterations in Hittite Anatolia

From the norm to theab-normal : Mesopotamian stories of bodies

The musician in Mesopotamia : the artist's body

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