About the Author

ADA COHEN is a professor of art history and the Israel Evans Professor in Oratory and Belles Lettres at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. STEVEN E. KANGAS is a senior lecturer in art history and Jewish studies at Dartmouth College.

Reviews

Assyrian Reliefs is certain to find a place on the shelves of many libraries and even personal collections. Though we cannot all have first-hand access to Assyrian art, Assyrian Reliefs offers the next best thing high quality images accompanied by thought-provoking interpretations. CAA Reviews"

This volume will reward the careful reader with a lively ongoing debate about the significance and meaning of the figures and motifs featured in these more static Assyrian reliefs. The New England reliefs, and the repeated sacred figures in general, have heretofore been neglected in favor of those illustrating active narratives such as hunts and warfare, and this volume helps to remedy this omission. The general reader will be rewarded with an interesting and up-to-date account of how Assyrian motifs have figured in the visual, historical, and religious life of the United States, from New England all the way to the Los Angeles malls. American Journal of Archaeology"