Dressing the Neo-Assyrian Queen in Identity and Ideology: Elements and Ensembles from the Royal Tombs at Nimrud

Opium Art and Truffle Texts in the Aegean and Ancient Near East

“…At least one consort even went on campaign (Dalley 2002, 172). The female figures with their shimmering cloisonné wings on the Tomb III crown may be relevant in some regard, especially as they are atypically not nude, but wear chitonlike garments on the order of the clothing whose vestiges were preserved in some of the Nimrud burials (Gansell 2018). Do the glyptic and other parallels for such garbed, winged beings in Anatolia and Syria support the idea of an exotic homeland for one or more of the ladies whose names seem Syrian (Boehmer 2006)?…”

Interactive 3D Viewer Interfaces for Virtual Museum Artefacts

“…Small and less colourful artefacts, like clay cuneiform tablets, can be overlooked and their significance and fascinating histories can be left uncommunicated . Beyond a few examples (Gansell 2018;Pietroszek et al 2021), there have been relatively few Assyriological realisations of digital or virtual reality projects (Hanes 2020; Sahala 2021) compared to those depicting Egyptian and Roman civilisations. Our research aims to inform and create connected, accessible and engaging virtual and augmented reality experiences for cuneiform tablets for scholars and citizens (Woolley et al 2020), recognising both the opportunities and challenges associated with the adoption of tools and technologies Hall et al 2021).…”