Holly Pittman

The White Obelisk and the problem of historical narrative in the art of Assyria

The narrative imagery carved on the sides of the White Obelisk in the British Museum is shown to be a direct copy of a program that lined the walls of a long, narrow room in a palace of an unknown Assyrian king. As a record of a lost architectural program the Obelisk composition is used to illuminate the poorly known beginnings of Assyrian visual historical narrative in the late Middle Assyrian period of the twelfth and eleventh centuries b.c.

Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur

Early dynastic Mesopotamia / by Richard L. Zettler -- Ur of the Chaldees / by Richard L. Zettler -- The royal tombs of Ur / by Richard L. Zettler, with a contribution by Steve Tinney -- The burials of a king and queen / by Richard L. Zettler, with a contribution by Paul Zimmerman -- Art of the royal tombs of Ur : a brief interpretation / by Donald P. Hansen -- Cylinder seals / by Holly Pittman -- Jewelry / by Holly Pittman -- Metal vessels / by Jill A. Weber and Richard L. Zettler -- Stone vessels / by Richard L. Zettler -- Shell containers / by Kevin Dante and Richard L. Zettler -- Tools and weapons / by Jill A. Weber and Richard L. Zettler.