Research Fields

• Divine representations of the ancient Near East
• royal representations of the ancient Near East
• Yahwistic iconography

About

Tallay Ornan is an expert in ancient Near Eastern art of the 2nd & 1st millennia,focusing on the southern Levant, Mesopotamia & Syria

 

Selected Publications

T. Ornan 2005. The Triumph of the Symbol, Pictorial Representation of Deities in Mesopotamia and the Biblical

T. Ornan, 2010. “Humbaba, the Bull of Heaven & the Contribution of Images to the Reconstruction of the Gilgameš Epic.” In H.-U. Steymans ed., Gilgamesch – Bilder eines Helden: Ikonographie und Überlieferung von Motiven im Gilgameš-Epos.OBO 245. Fribourg & Göttingen: 229-260

T. Ornan. 2011.“ ‘Let Ba’al be Enthroned’: The Date, Identification and Function of a Bronze Statue from Hazor.” JNES 70.2:. 253-280

T. Ornan. 2012, “The Long Life of a Dead King: A Bronze Statue from Hazor in its Ancient Near Eastern Context.” BASOR 366: 1-23

T. Ornan. 2019. “Unfinished Business: The Relief on the Hammurabi Louvre Stele Revisited.” JCS 71: 85-109

 

Teaching

MA:

On Visual Narratives: Pictures and Stories in the Ancient Near East [].

Fighting Gods and Nude Goddesses in the Second Millennium Canaanite Art.

Pictures in Context: Assyrian Wall Reliefs circa 900-600 BCE.

Processes of Symbolization in Ancient Near Eastern Art

Pictorial Representations of Soveriegns in the Ancient Near East