Assyromania and More: In Memory of Samuel M. Paley

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More than 30 contributions are devoted to the memory of the Near Eastern Archaeologist Samuel M. Paley (1941-2010). Studies are devoted to the archaeology of Cyprus, Israel, Syria, Turkey, Iran and Iraq as well as to archaeological methods and technologies. A special focus is given to seals and iconography and the modern reception of the Ancient Near East. Cover Title Page Contents Tabula Amicorum Foreword of the Editors Biographical Portrait Publications of Samuel M. Paley Prisms of Light Speculations on the Original Function of Phlamoudhi-Vounari (Allan S. Gilbert and Ian J. Cohn) Exploring Regional Development in Late Bronze I Cyprus. Phlamoudhi-Vounari and the Karpass Peninsula (Mara T. Horowitz) Looking for Leucolla (Robert R. Stieglitz) Children and Bangles in the Late Second-Millennium BCE Southern Levant (Susan L. Braunstein) Working with Sam. From New York City to Tel el Ifshar, Ashurnasirpal II’s Northwest Palace, Alişar Höyük and Beyond (Alison B. Snyder) Sam Paley at Çadır Höyük 1993-2008. Excavating the Second Millennium BCE (Sharon R. Steadman and Gregory McMahon) Seyitömer Mound Excavations (A. Nejat Bilgen) Economy and Power. Achaemenid Influence on Regional Economies in Western Anatolia (Lisa Kealhofer, Peter Grave, and A. Nejat Bilgen) Megaron 3. The 8th – Early 7th Century BC Palace of the Phrygian Kings at Gordion (Oscar White Muscarella) Reconsidering the Position of Mt. Puškurunuwa and Other Issues of Central Anatolian Geography(Ronald L. Gorny) From Cyprus to Assyria. Earrings in Middle Assyrian Assur—A Connection to the West (Friedhelm Pedde) Tell Billa’s Bull Pendant. A Connection to Middle Assyrian Assur (Reed Charles Goodman) Representing Cities in Syro-Anatolian and Neo-Assyrian Art (James F. Osborne) Timing Space / Spacing Time. Narrative Principles in Assurbanipal Hunt Reliefs of Room C in the North Palace of Nineveh (Davide Nadali) The Assur Project in Berlin. A Look Back at Twenty Years of Research (Friedhelm Pedde) In Pursuit of the "Missing" Central Palace of Tiglathpileser III at Nimrud (Julian Edgeworth Reade and Donald H. Sanders) Recreating Ancient Architecture for Museum Exhibitions (Joanna S. Smith) A 3D Visualization of the Ancient Built Environment of Seyitömer Höyük, Turkey (Laura K. Harrison and Aycan Gürbüz) Some Useful Graphical Computer Techniques for Old Archaeology with New Techniques (Willem Beex) King/Man in a (War) Cart. Intercultural Theme or Appropriated Image? (Holly Pittman) On the Birth of Early Achaemenid Monumental Art at Pasargadae (David Stronach) Objects of Anatolian Origin in the Buffalo Museum of Science (Elif Genç) A Seal for Sam. A Neo-Assyrian Cylinder Seal from Halieis, Greece (Bradley A. Ault) Preliminary Remarks on an Achaemenid Seal with a Phrygian Inscription (Judith A. Lerner) Linear B o-pi-ti-ni-ja-ta, Homeric epitimetor and Labiovelar Palatalization (Roger D. Woodard) My Memories of Dr. Samuel Paley, Teacher, Leader and Friend (Sophia R. Balderman) Circumcision and Epispasm. The Myth of the "Jewish Weight" (Friedrich T. Schipper) The "New Babylon". New York Architecture in the 1920s and Early 1930s (Brigitte Pedde) The Use and Abuse of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Architecture in Modern and Contemporary Culture. Between Memory and Fake Tradition (Maria Gabriella Micale) Gilgamesh in Modern Art. The German Painter Willi Baumeister and the Ancient Near East (Brigitte Pedde) Protest and ProtectionWilliam Dinsmoor's War (Stephen L. Dyson) S.A.F.E. Nimrud. CHNT featuring Samuel M. Paley (2003–2009) (Wolfgang Börner) Archaeological Heritage: A Human Right (Ezra B.W. Zubrow) Dreams in Sound (Martha Mooke)