Zainab Bahrani is Edith Porada Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, New York. She is the author of numerous books, including The Infinite Image: Art, Time and the Aesthetic Dimension in Antiquity, winner of the Lionel Trilling Prize in 2015, and Rituals of War: The Body and Violence in Mesopotamia, winner of the American Historical Association¿s James Henry Breasted Prize.
Introduction: Becoming Art
The Search for Origins: Mesopotamia and the Cradle of Civilization
Uruk: The Arts of Civilization
Early Dynastic Sumer: Images for the People, Temples for the Gods
Early Dynastic Sumer: Art for Eternity
Art of the Akkadian Dynasty
Gudea: Royal Portraits and the Lifespan of Images
The Third Dynasty of Ur
The Age of Hammurabi
Kassite and Assyrian Art at the End of the Bronze Age
Assyrian Art: Narrative and Empire
Assyrian Art in Context
Babylonian Art
Achaemenid Persian Art
Alexander in Babylon and Hellenism in Mesopotamia: Seleucid and Parthian Art
Epilogue: The Past in the Present
Glossary * Further Reading * Sources of Quotations * Acknowledgments * Sources of Illustrations * Index
