“Assyrian Clay Hands” in the Architecture of the Ancient Near East
“Assyrian Clay Hands” in the Architecture of the Ancient Near East
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古代近东建筑中的“亚述粘土手”
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10.1086/696544
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2017
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0.1
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The function of glazed clay hands in the architecture of Iron Age Mesopotamia (9th–8th century b. c.) and the Northern Levant has proven somewhat elusive even more than one hundred years after the first discovery of such objects in the Neo-Assyrian royal palaces of Nimrud, Khorsabad, Nineveh, and Ashur in northern Iraq and in the Aramaean kingdom of Zincirli (ancient Sam ‘al) in southern Turkey. Evidence in museum collections and from recent field excavations in northern Syria and southern Anatolia, however, allows an opportunity to reconstruct the placement of the hands in their original settlements and to suggest possible meanings of their shape (fig. 1). Through a brief review of their morphology, excavation contexts, and comparisons to other objects, this article aims to connect the so-called Assyrian clay hands with a long architectural tradition in Mesopotamia. In that tradition, temples and palace facades were
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