Friends of ASOR present the next webinar in the 2023-2024 season on March 21, 2024, at 6:00 pm EST, presented by Dr. Helen Malko.

For the people of Mesopotamia, the past was a source of knowledge and inspiration. Their reverence, both in terms of preserving early buildings and monuments and reviving images and ancient writing styles, is evident in archaeological and textual records. While Mesopotamian monuments and images were produced as historical works, inscribed with texts that marked them clearly and linked them to specific events and times, their efficacy was understood to be unlimited. Dated to the reign of king Nazi-Maruttash (ca. 1307–1282 BCE), the stele of the Goddess Lama, currently in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum, offers an excellent opportunity to explore Mesopotamian interaction with the past during the Kassite period (ca. 1574–1157 BCE). Through visual and textual analysis, this talk examines the survival of Lama imagery in this period. It reflects on the religious/political significance of the stele’s production within a broader context. The aim is to demonstrate that the crudely carved and seemingly unimaginative reuse of an earlier protective goddess figure was a deliberately archaizing image and an inspired citation of the past.

This webinar will be recorded and all paid registrants will be sent a link to view the recording.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Helen Malko is the Associate Director of the Stanford Humanities Center, where she oversees various academic programs in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. Before joining Stanford, she worked at the American Center of Research (ACOR) and Columbia University Global Center in Amman, Jordan. Helen holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology and Archaeology from Stony Brook University and a BA from Baghdad University, and she is trained in cultural heritage and preservation studies. She has been awarded multiple fellowships at the Metropolitan Museum and Columbia University in New York and has conducted fieldwork and capacity-building projects in Iraq, Jordan, and Turkey.

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