Javier Álvarez‐món
Biographic Data
| ID | 4872400 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Javier Álvarez‐món |
| GIVEN NAMES | Javier |
| FAMILY NAME | Álvarez‐món |
| SIGNATURE | MON J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8525-6002 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Yasmina Wicks. “Between Highlands and Lowlands. The Ram Hormuz Plain in the Neo-Elamite and Early Achaemenid Periods, and Comments on Five Burials from the Fort Mound at Tal-i Ghazir”
The purpose of this article is to outline the evidence for the Neo-Elamite (ca. 1000-525 BCE) and early Achaemenid periods (ca. 525-330 BCE) collected during surveys across the Ram Hormuz plain and the excavations at Tal-i Ghazir, with special attention to the burials in the Fort Mound. This site and its surrounds comprised a thriving settlement zone from the early second millennium BCE and a critical crossroads of Elamite and Iranian interaction…
Yasmina Wicks. Profiling Death. Neo-Elamite Mortuary Practices, Afterlife Beliefs, and Entanglements with Ancestors
Comprehensively researched and illustrated, this book stems from research carried out during the author’s doctoral dissertation “Alas, Short Is the Joy of Life!” Elamite Funerary Practice in the First Half of the First Millennium BCE, completed in 2017 at the University of Sydney, Australia. It is divided in four parts: Part 1 offers a background to the Elamite history and material culture of the first millennium BC; Part 2 focuses on the mortuar…
Elamite War Chariots and Military Equipment At Ancient Kabnak (ca. 1400 bce)
After entering the second millennium BCE as a military superpower, Elam faded into historical obscurity upon its withdrawal from the broader Near Eastern political scene in 1763 BCE and only reemerged much later as a major player with a sequence of incursions in Mesopotamia beginning in the thirteenth century and culminating in the 1155 BCE fall of the Kassites. During the intervening centuries, neither written nor archaeological sources offer cl…
The Art of Elam ca. 4200–525 bc
The Art of Elam ca. 4200-525 BC offers a view of, and a critical reflection on, the art history of one of the world's first and least-known civilizations, illuminating a significant chapter of our human past. Not unlike a gallery of historical paintings, this comprehensive treatment of the rich heritage of ancient Iran showcases a visual trail of the evolution of human society, with all its leaps and turns, from its origins in the earliest villag…
Khuzestan in the Bronze Age
"Iran's heritage is as varied as it is complex, and the archaeological, philological, and linguistic scholarship of the region has not been the focus of a comprehensive study for many decades. The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Iran provides up-to-date, authoritative essays on a wide range of topics extending from the earliest Paleolithic settlements in the Pleistocene era to the Arab conquest in the 7th century AD. The volume, authored by specialist…
Elam
Elam was the first Iranian Empire, lasting from about 2700 to 550 and occupying the present‐day provinces of Khūzestān and Fārs. Elamite cultural identity reaches back to the foundation of the city of Susa around 4000 BCE and the ensuing interaction between highland Zagros polities and the lowland Susiana Plain. From the Mesopotamian perspective, Elam was the gateway to primary material resources (metals, timber, and stone); from the highland per…
Elamite kings, Neo‐Elamite period
The chronology of the Neo–Elamite period (ca. 1100–550 BCE ) is divided in two or three phases, according to whether one follows textual or archaeological evidence.
Platform Bearers from Kül-e Farah III and VI
Scenes sculpted on two large boulders located in the region of Īzeh/Mālamīr include a group of four kneeling platform bearers atop which is found the representation of a large male figure. The significance and dating of this imagery remains the source of much hypothetical discussion. This study re-examines the characteristics of the platform bearers and joins the chronological debate arguing in favour of a Neo-Elamite date
Ashurbanipal's Feast
As observed by numerous commentators, the slab relief panel from the North Palace at Nineveh depicting the banquet of Ashurbanipal is, in a variety of ways, most exceptional. In these pages, I will explore this relief within the context of an Elamite viewpoint and look into those aspects of the relief which directly point to an Elamite political and cultural milieu. This background evidence, together with an in-depth analysis of the garment and h…
Notes On The ‘Elamite’ Garment Of Cyrus The Great
According to the latest collation of the Nabonidus Chronicle , a reference is made to Cyrus the Great wearing an ‘Elamite’ garment during the investiture ceremony of Cambyses. This study examines the likely characteristics of this garment in the light of a recent study of seventh- and sixth-century bc Elamite elite garments. Within this context it is suggested that the Chronicle may have done no more than state the obvious. In 538 bc , Cyrus went…
'Give to Drink, o Cup-Bearer!'
This article introduces the reader to an outstanding object found in 1982 inside a burial known as the Arjan tomb, in eastern Khuzestan (Iran). The bronze beaker from Arjan is characterized by an engraved upper register bearing the representation of six identical running ostriches and a lower bulbous convex section worked at repousse into the shape of four overlapping lion heads converging on a central rosette. In addition to a description and co…
Aspects of Elamite Wall Painting
Elamite Funerary Clay Heads
Imago Mundi
The Art of Elam ca. 4200–525 bc
The Art of Elam ca. 4200-525 BC offers a view of, and a critical reflection on, the art history of one of the world's first and least-known civilizations, illuminating a significant chapter of our human past. Not unlike a gallery of historical paintings, this comprehensive treatment of the rich heritage of ancient Iran showcases a visual trail of the evolution of human society, with all its leaps and turns, from its origins in the earliest villag…
Notes On The ‘Elamite’ Garment Of Cyrus The Great
According to the latest collation of the Nabonidus Chronicle , a reference is made to Cyrus the Great wearing an ‘Elamite’ garment during the investiture ceremony of Cambyses. This study examines the likely characteristics of this garment in the light of a recent study of seventh- and sixth-century bc Elamite elite garments. Within this context it is suggested that the Chronicle may have done no more than state the obvious. In 538 bc , Cyrus went…
Imago Mundi
Aspects of Elamite Wall Painting
Elamite Funerary Clay Heads
'Give to Drink, o Cup-Bearer!'
This article introduces the reader to an outstanding object found in 1982 inside a burial known as the Arjan tomb, in eastern Khuzestan (Iran). The bronze beaker from Arjan is characterized by an engraved upper register bearing the representation of six identical running ostriches and a lower bulbous convex section worked at repousse into the shape of four overlapping lion heads converging on a central rosette. In addition to a description and co…
Ashurbanipal's Feast
As observed by numerous commentators, the slab relief panel from the North Palace at Nineveh depicting the banquet of Ashurbanipal is, in a variety of ways, most exceptional. In these pages, I will explore this relief within the context of an Elamite viewpoint and look into those aspects of the relief which directly point to an Elamite political and cultural milieu. This background evidence, together with an in-depth analysis of the garment and h…
Notes On The ‘Elamite’ Garment Of Cyrus The Great
According to the latest collation of the Nabonidus Chronicle , a reference is made to Cyrus the Great wearing an ‘Elamite’ garment during the investiture ceremony of Cambyses. This study examines the likely characteristics of this garment in the light of a recent study of seventh- and sixth-century bc Elamite elite garments. Within this context it is suggested that the Chronicle may have done no more than state the obvious. In 538 bc , Cyrus went…
Platform Bearers from Kül-e Farah III and VI
Scenes sculpted on two large boulders located in the region of Īzeh/Mālamīr include a group of four kneeling platform bearers atop which is found the representation of a large male figure. The significance and dating of this imagery remains the source of much hypothetical discussion. This study re-examines the characteristics of the platform bearers and joins the chronological debate arguing in favour of a Neo-Elamite date
Elam
Elam was the first Iranian Empire, lasting from about 2700 to 550 and occupying the present‐day provinces of Khūzestān and Fārs. Elamite cultural identity reaches back to the foundation of the city of Susa around 4000 BCE and the ensuing interaction between highland Zagros polities and the lowland Susiana Plain. From the Mesopotamian perspective, Elam was the gateway to primary material resources (metals, timber, and stone); from the highland per…
Elamite kings, Neo‐Elamite period
The chronology of the Neo–Elamite period (ca. 1100–550 BCE ) is divided in two or three phases, according to whether one follows textual or archaeological evidence.
Khuzestan in the Bronze Age
"Iran's heritage is as varied as it is complex, and the archaeological, philological, and linguistic scholarship of the region has not been the focus of a comprehensive study for many decades. The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Iran provides up-to-date, authoritative essays on a wide range of topics extending from the earliest Paleolithic settlements in the Pleistocene era to the Arab conquest in the 7th century AD. The volume, authored by specialist…
The Art of Elam ca. 4200–525 bc
The Art of Elam ca. 4200-525 BC offers a view of, and a critical reflection on, the art history of one of the world's first and least-known civilizations, illuminating a significant chapter of our human past. Not unlike a gallery of historical paintings, this comprehensive treatment of the rich heritage of ancient Iran showcases a visual trail of the evolution of human society, with all its leaps and turns, from its origins in the earliest villag…
Yasmina Wicks. “Between Highlands and Lowlands. The Ram Hormuz Plain in the Neo-Elamite and Early Achaemenid Periods, and Comments on Five Burials from the Fort Mound at Tal-i Ghazir”
The purpose of this article is to outline the evidence for the Neo-Elamite (ca. 1000-525 BCE) and early Achaemenid periods (ca. 525-330 BCE) collected during surveys across the Ram Hormuz plain and the excavations at Tal-i Ghazir, with special attention to the burials in the Fort Mound. This site and its surrounds comprised a thriving settlement zone from the early second millennium BCE and a critical crossroads of Elamite and Iranian interaction…
Yasmina Wicks. Profiling Death. Neo-Elamite Mortuary Practices, Afterlife Beliefs, and Entanglements with Ancestors
Comprehensively researched and illustrated, this book stems from research carried out during the author’s doctoral dissertation “Alas, Short Is the Joy of Life!” Elamite Funerary Practice in the First Half of the First Millennium BCE, completed in 2017 at the University of Sydney, Australia. It is divided in four parts: Part 1 offers a background to the Elamite history and material culture of the first millennium BC; Part 2 focuses on the mortuar…
Elamite War Chariots and Military Equipment At Ancient Kabnak (ca. 1400 bce)
After entering the second millennium BCE as a military superpower, Elam faded into historical obscurity upon its withdrawal from the broader Near Eastern political scene in 1763 BCE and only reemerged much later as a major player with a sequence of incursions in Mesopotamia beginning in the thirteenth century and culminating in the 1155 BCE fall of the Kassites. During the intervening centuries, neither written nor archaeological sources offer cl…
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