Master of Animals in Old World Iconography: TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Master of Animals in Old World Iconography Edited by DEREK B. COUNTS and BETTINA ARNOLD BUDAPEST 2010  With the generous support of the Center for Etruscan Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Cover illustrations Glauberg Schnabelkanne. Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen, Wiesbaden Volume Editor ERZSÉBET JEREM ISBN 978-963-9911-14-7 HU-ISSN 1215-9239 © The Authors and Archaeolingua Foundation All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording or any other information storage and retrieval system, without requesting prior permission in writing from the publisher. 2010 ARCHAEOLINGUA ALAPÍTVÁNY H-1250 Budapest, Úri u. 49 Copyediting by Julia Gaviria Desktop editing and layout by Rita Kovács Printed by Prime Rate Kft  Table of Contents Acknowledgments .................................................................................................................................. 7 BETTINA ARNOLD – DEREK B. COUNTS Prolegomenon: The Many Masks of the Master of Animals .......................................................... 9 SARAH COSTELLO The Mesopotamian “Nude Hero”: Context and Interpretations ................................................... 25 JONATHAN MARK KENOYER Master of Animals and Animal Masters in the Iconography of the Indus Tradition .................... 37 BILLIE JEAN COLLINS Animal Mastery in Hittite Art and Texts ...................................................................................... 59 JANICE L. CROWLEY The Aegean Master of Animals: The Evidence of the Seals, Signets and Sealings ..................... 75 ANNA SIMANDIRAKI-GRIMSHAW Minoan Animal-Human Hybridity ............................................................................................... 93 LOUISE A. HITCHCOCK The Big Nowhere: A Master of Animals in the Throne Room at Knossos? ............................... 107 SUSAN LANGDON Where the Wild Things Were: The Greek Master of Animals in Ecological Perspective ........... 119 DEREK B. COUNTS Divine Symbols and Royal Aspirations: The Master of Animals in Iron Age Cypriote Religion .............................................................. 135 MARK GARRISON The Heroic Encounter in the Visual Arts of Ancient Iraq and Iran ca. 1000–500 BC ............... 151 BRYAN K. HANKS Agency, Hybridity, and Transmutation: Human-Animal Symbolism and Mastery among Early Eurasian Steppe Societies ....................................................................... 175 BETTINA ARNOLD Beasts of the Forest and Beasts of the Field: Animal Sacrifice, Hunting Symbolism, and the Master of Animals in Pre-Roman Iron Age Europe ....................................................... 193 ANTHONY TUCK Mistress and Master: The Politics of Iconography in Pre-Roman Central Italy .......................... 211 MARTIN GUGGISBERG The Mistress of Animals, the Master of Animals: Two Complementary or Oppositional Religious Concepts in Early Celtic Art? ............................................................... 223 PETER S. WELLS Meaning in Motif and Ornament: The Face Between the Creatures in Mid-First-Millennium AD Temperate Europe ............................................................................ 237 Index .................................................................................................................................................. 251 List of Contributors ............................................................................................................................ 259