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+**Rituals at Doors and Gates**
+//Title//: Patrick Maxime Michel, //Rites aux portes//, Bern: Peter Lang, 2017.
+//Keywords//: Leviticus - ritual text - ritual practice - sanctuary - extra-sanctuary - slaughter - tombs - entrances - graves - grave-entrances - tomb - entrances - rituals at grave entrances - necropoles - Ancient Egyptian necropoles - Egypt - New Kingdom - nyny - gesture - relief - depitions - temples - temple reliefs - scenes - Cleopatra III - queen - door - Temple of Khonsu - Karnak - Karnak Khonsu temple - depiction - temple entrance - “epiclesis” - cultural practices - invocation - symbolism  gate - gates - Assyrian-Babylonian - Mesopotamian rituals - gates - gods’ gates - divine gates - Šumma ālu - divination - blocking gates - blocked gates - town gate - city gate - bābiš ina ketrîm lušīl - tajjārat mārat Sîn tešemme zikrī - talḫīšī askuppaša lupezzir - defence - justice - identity - function of city gates - Aštata - Late Bronze Age - Syria - Northern Syria - gate rituals - Anatolia - 2nd millennium - cult - outside - inside - Temple of Jerusalem - Ezekiel 8
+//Abstract//: Le colloque organisé les 2-3 mai 2014 à l’Université de Genève avait pour but de donner une vue d’ensemble des connaissances sur les rites liés aux portes ou la ritualisation des passages à travers les portes dans l’Antiquité, plus précisément en Egypte, en Mésopotamie, en Anatolie, en Grèce et dans le monde biblique. Conçu sur deux journées, le colloque donnait d’une part la parole aux jeunes chercheurs de l’Université de Genève, d’autres part à des spécialistes internationaux.
+Qu’on les traverse, qu’on les construise, qu’on cherche à les protéger, il existe tout un ensemble de pratiques rituelles spécifiques aux portes que les différentes contributions du recueil vont aborder. Il offre donc diverses réflexions tant sur les génies des portes que sur les rites de passage qu’on traite des portes urbaines, des portes de temples ou des portes de tombes.
+([[https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/62086|table of content]])
+**Nimrud Ivories**
+//Title//: Herrmann, G., //Ancient ivory: masterpieces of the Assyrian Empire//, London: Thames and Hudson, 2017.
+//Keywords//: ivory - early 1st millennium BC - Age of Ivory - Kalḫu - Nimrud - Assyria - Neo-Assyrian Empire - gift - tribute - booty - discovery - Austen Henry Layard - 19th century AD - excavations - palaces - temples - forts - Max Mallowan - 20th century - modern destruction - Iraq - Iraq Museum - cultural heritage
+//Abstract//: Ivory is a wonderful material: tactile, beautiful, workable into many different forms and the strongest in the animal kingdom. Unfortunately for the elephant, it has been highly prized from the Palaeolithic to the present day, in part by virtue of its rarity and the difficulty of acquiring it. During the early first millennium bc – the ‘Age of Ivory’ – literally thousands of carved ivories found their way to the Assyrian capital city of Kalhu, or modern Nimrud, in northern Iraq. The majority were not made there, in the heart of ancient Assyria, but arrived as gift, tribute or booty gathered by the Assyrian kings from the small neighbouring states of the ancient Middle Eastern world. The ivories were first unearthed in the mid-19th century by renowned Victorian traveller and adventurer Austen Henry Layard, but it was not until the mid-20th century that the extent of the treasure was realized by Max Mallowan, the archaeologist husband of Agatha Christie. Thousands of extraordinary ivories have since been excavated from the ruins of the ancient city’s extravagant palaces, temples and forts. In recent years, many have been destroyed or remain at risk following the invasion of Iraq and the sacking of the Iraq Museum, as well as in the ongoing conflict and destruction of cultural heritage in the region. As a result, the ivories preserved in these pages form a unique and unparalleled record of the otherwise lost art of the Middle East.
 **Mesopotamian Art and Architecture**