Afterlives of Ancient Rock-cut Monuments in the Near East

Jonathan Ben-Dov, Ph.D. (2005), is Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Tel Aviv University. He has published widely on the Hebrew Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Ancient Time reckoning, including a recently co-edited volume The Construction of Time in Antiquity: Ritual, Art, and Identity (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Felipe Rojas, Ph.D. (2010), is Associate Professor of Archaeology at Brown University. He currently co-directs archaeological projects in Turkey and Jordan, and recently published the book The Pasts of Roman Anatolia: Interpreters, Traces, Horizons (Cambridge University Press, 2019).

Preface

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors



1 Introduction

 Felipe Rojas and Jonathan Ben-Dov



2 Entangled Images: Royal Memory, Posthumous Presence, and the Afterlives of Assyrian Rock Reliefs

 Karen Sonik and David Kertai



3 Narrating Temporality: Three Short Stories about Egyptian Royal Living-Rock Stelae

 Jen Thum and Anne-Claire Salmas



4 Forgetting an Empire, Creating a New Order: Trajectories of Rock-Cut Monuments from Hittite into Post-Hittite Anatolia, and the Afterlife of the “Throne” of Kızıldağ

 Lorenzo d’Alfonso and Matteo Pedrinazzi



5 A Carving in Antioch: History, Magic, Antiquarianism, Archaeology

 Felipe Rojas



6 Herodotus and Empire: Ancient Near Eastern Monuments and Their Cultural Recycling in Herodotus’ Histories

 Robert Rollinger



7 Sculpting in Time: Rock Reliefs, Inscriptions and the Transformation of Iranian Memory and Identity

 Matthew P. Canepa



8 Éminences grises: Emergent Antiquities in Seventeenth-Century Iran

 Lindsay Allen and Moya Carey



9 Neo-Babylonian Rock Reliefs and the Jewish Literary Imagination

 Jonathan Ben-Dov



10 Translatio studii: Stelae Traditions in Second Temple Judaism and Their Legacy in Byzantium

 William Adler



11 The Long History of an Imaginary Inscription: Josephus’s Two Pillars in Early Modern European Histories of Astronomy

 John Steele

Index