New Book on Babylonian Figurines. Figurines in Hellenistic Babylonia: Miniaturization and Cultural Hybridity

Langin-Hooper, Stephanie M.

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2020

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New Book on Babylonian Figurines. Figurines in Hellenistic Babylonia: Miniaturization and Cultural Hybridity

Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper¹

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“…Moorey 2004;Battini 2017a;Martin, Langin-Hooper 2018; Roβberger 2018;Langin-Hooper 2020. See alsoUcko 1962, Cazzella 1987and Lesure 2011, who, although focused on prehistoric figurines, have interesting insights.8.…”

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Terracottas in the Yale Babylonian Collection

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Since 2018 1 I have been studying for publication a little-known group of Mesopotamian terracottas held in the Yale Babylonian Collection of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History in New Haven, with the permission of the curator Agnete Wisti-Lassen. 2 A selection of these terracottas had already been published in 1930 by Elisabeth van Buren in a book that listed the Near Eastern terracottas of the most important European and American museums. 3 While the Yale collection was included, the encyclopedic nature of the book did not allow for in-depth analysis of its objects, nor did it allow for complete photographic documentation. Since then, other terracottas also have entered the collection that have never been published. But more importantly, a century of archaeological reflection and new methodological analyses require a rethinking for the publication of this material. This is the goal of my research program, which is funded by CNRS 4 for the most part and by my laboratory, funded by the Collège de France, the CNRS, and the École Pratique des Hautes Études. However, my goal is not simply to publish a catalogue with synthetic chapters. Rather, the aim is to renew coroplastic research for the ancient Near East. I intend to show how the study of the neglected areas of the terracotta object-the back and the sides-contributes to a better understanding of the object itself, how it was produced, and how it was handled. This catalogue is also a "manifesto." Indeed, research into Syro-Mesopotamian terracottas has not taken into account the 'revolution' that has occurred in coroplastic studies relative to the Greek world. 5 In the domain of the ancient Near East recent studies on terracottas are few and mostly are limited to publishing objects discovered in excavations. But this study also is an appeal in general for the publication of museum collections, in re-contextualizing material that arrived in museums without provenience and context, which is important for other similar materials. It also is necessary to understand how the objects arrived in museums. Reconstructing this recent history of the object is important because it is part of it. Terracottas in the Yale Babylonian Collection Les Carnets de l'ACoSt, 23 | 2023 ABSTRACTSThis article presents a publication project concerning the terracottas in the Yale Babylonian Collection that began in 2018, suspended by the pandemic, and resumed in 2022. After defining the difficulties and the methodology, it presents an overview of the study and concludes by describing the publication plan.

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“… 62 Karvonen-Kannas 1995, nos 381, 406, 462–464, 478, pls 61, 63, 66–7; Klengel-Brandt and Cholidis 2006, nos 1712–98, 3131–6, 3976–97, pls 73–7, 139, 155; Langin-Hooper 2011, 89; 2020, 56.…”

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The Kausia Boy Figurines From Demetrias: A Reassessment

Ieremias

2021

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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Demetrias has yielded the largest number of terracotta figurines of a popular iconographic type of the Hellenistic period: the ‘kausia boy’, shown standing, dressed in the chiton, chlamys, kausia and krepides. The rediscovery of the material from A.S. Arvanitopoulos’ excavations at Demetrias in the early twentieth century has provided an opportunity to reassess the significance of this iconographic type in the city and in the wider Hellenistic world. Combining and comparing the material from Arvanitopoulos’ excavations with that from other excavations in the city by the German Archaeological Institute and the Ephorate of Antiquities of Magnesia, it is now clear that the kausia boy figurines from Demetrias were discovered in various contexts, including sanctuaries, graves and the foundations of the royal palace (Anaktoron); the largest number was found in the sanctuary of Pasikrata. It has been possible to identify more than ten technical types, confirming the importance of these figures in the coroplastic production of the city. This paper also discusses the iconographic types of the ‘shepherds’, kausia-wearing boys holding the syrinx and the lagobolon, as well as the animal-carrying boys, since they too are wearing the same attire, and are mechanically related to the simple kausia boy types. The study of Demetrias’ specimens, combined with the study of the distribution of these iconographic types in the Hellenistic world and the relevant iconographic, literary and epigraphic evidence enable its reinterpretation.

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New Book on Babylonian Figurines. Figurines in Hellenistic Babylonia: Miniaturization and Cultural Hybridity

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