Researching metaphor in the Ancient Near East / / edited by Marta Pallavidini and Ludovico Portuese.

• Superior document: Philippika ; 141
• TeilnehmendeR: Pallavidini, Marta,; Portuese, Ludovico,
• Place / Publishing House: Wiesbaden : : Harrassowitz Verlag,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Philippika ; 141.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (213 pages).

Table of Contents

Researching metaphor in the Ancient Near East : an introduction / Ludovico Portuese and Marta Pallavidini -- The lion, the shepherd, and the master of animals : metaphorical interactions and governance representations in Mesopotamian and Levantine sources / Stéphanie Anthonioz -- To serve woman : Jezebel, Anat, and the metaphor of women as food / Esther Brownsmith -- Visualizing 'death' (Môtu) in the Ugaritic texts / Joseph Lam -- Aššur is King! : The metaphorical implications of embodiment, personification, and transference in ancient Assyria / Davide Nadali -- How did they think? : towards use of metaphor theories to research the Hittite conceptual world -- Cows of battle, urinating lions, and frightened falcons : on metaphor in Sumerian literary compositions / Judith Pfitzner -- Live and let live images : metaphor and interpictoriality in neo-Assyrian art / Ludovico Portuese -- The significance of the embrace metaphor in the inscription KARKAMIŠ A 21 / Claudia Posani -- Metaphors and conceptual metaphors in the Mesopotamian medical texts / Silvia Salin -- Metaphor for the construction of spontaneous meaning : examples gathered from the rural landscape in Sumerian literature / Nelson Henrique da Silva Ferreira -- "Squeezing" like oil from a sesame seed : on the conceptual background of metaphoric expressions in Akkadian diplomatic texts originating from Ḫatti / Lisa Wilhelmi.