To See or Not to See: The Issue of Visuality

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_6213
dc.contributor.author	Nadali Davide
dc.title	To See or Not to See: The Issue of Visuality in Ancient Near Eastern Art. Images of Queens, High Priestesses, and Other Elite Women in the Third Millennium BC
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	The presence of veil usually characterises and defines women in ancient Near Eastern societies: indeed, the use of veil has been usually interpreted as to define both gender and role of the represented characters. But can the veil be so exclusively targeted? The analysis of the presence or even the absence of the veil needs to be contextualised: this contribution offers a short consideration on the use of the veil by women in ancient Mesopotamian and Syrian societies, trying to single out moments and circumstances, showing how images of women with veil are not so clearly identifiable and detectable as pointing to only one category, an exclusive role and a special position.
dc.relation.ispartof	Antiquity Studies
dc.relation.ispartof	Studi orientali
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2021-08-30
dc.dateAccepted	2021-08-03
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-07-01
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-522-3/to-see-or-not-to-see-the-issue-of-visuality-in-anc/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-521-6/007
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8828
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9344
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-522-3
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-521-6
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Assyria
dc.subject	Assyria
dc.subject	Ebla
dc.subject	Ebla
dc.subject	Iconography
dc.subject	Iconography
dc.subject	Mari
dc.subject	Mari
dc.subject	Mesopotamia
dc.subject	Mesopotamia
dc.subject	Syria
dc.subject	Syria
dc.subject	Women
dc.subject	Women

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To See or Not to See: The Issue of Visuality in Ancient Near Eastern Art

Images of Queens, High Priestesses, and Other Elite Women in the Third Millennium BC

Davide Nadali Sapienza Università di Roma, Italia

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abstract

The presence of veil usually characterises and defines women in ancient Near Eastern societies: indeed, the use of veil has been usually interpreted as to define both gender and role of the represented characters. But can the veil be so exclusively targeted? The analysis of the presence or even the absence of the veil needs to be contextualised: this contribution offers a short consideration on the use of the veil by women in ancient Mesopotamian and Syrian societies, trying to single out moments and circumstances, showing how images of women with veil are not so clearly identifiable and detectable as pointing to only one category, an exclusive role and a special position.

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Aug. 30, 2021

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Aug. 3, 2021

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July 1, 2021

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978-88-6969-522-3

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Keywords: Ebla • Assyria • Mesopotamia • Iconography • Syria • Women • Mari

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