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wEdge : Cutting-Edge Research in Cuneiform Studies ; volume 3

Intro

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements

Feser: Thomas Coryate und sein Orientbild

Förschler: Populäre Lithographien im Orientalismus des 19. Jahrhunderts

tradierte Geschlechterbilder im neuen Medium

Galter: Joseph von Hammer-Purgstalls Fundgruben des Orients und die Entzifferung der Keilschrift

Garcia- Verntura: The reception of the Assyrian wounded lioness in Spain

a success story

Marcone: Arnaldo Momigliano and his picture of the Orient

an essay

Nadali: From the Bible to Nabucco

the question of the sources

Neumann, G.: "Die Mitternacht zog näher schon. Man trinkt noch Hofbräu in Babylon ... und später wird man in selbiger Nacht von seinem Knecht ins Bett gebracht!"

some insights into the guest book of the German excavations in Babylon

Neumann, H.: Bemerkungen zur Rolle des (Alten) Orients in den deutschsprachigen (welt-)geschichtlichen Betrachtungen des 19. Jahrhunderts

Onken: Villains or heroes of cultural history? The Ancient Near East in German textbooks around 1900

Pedde, B.: Reconstruction drawings of Ancient Near Eastern architecture as inspiration for building in the 1920ies in Germany: The Einstein Tower in Potsdam and the Karstadt department store in Berlin

Pedde, F.: The German novelist Karl May (1842-1912) as a multiplier of knowledge about the Ancient Near East

Pinnock: Fashion and the Ancient Orient

Wiesehöfer / Huyse: Carsten Niebuhr and Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy: How a keen observer and a gifted young scholar unravelled the secrets of Sasanian Naqa-e Rostam

Civilization, Western > Middle Eastern influences.

Middle East > Civilization > To 622.

Middle East > Antiquities.

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