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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nThursday, November 26, 2020 3:00 pm to 4:
 30 pm \n Online Zoom Lecture \n\nSpeakers \nDr. Liat Naeh (Archaeology Cen
 tre Research Associate) \n\nDescription: \nThe Archaeology Centre presents
  Dr. Liat Naeh (Archaeology Centre Research Associate), who will give a v
 irtual talk on ''The Lion Strikes Twice: Levantine-Styled Game Boxes and t
 he Visuality of Myth.'Registration is required for this event.Abstract:Dur
 ing the mid-2nd millennium BCE, at the cusp of a burgeoning international
  art age, a group of objects stands out: the well-known bone and ivory-in
 laid game boxes – found all around the Eastern Mediterranean Basin – featu
 ring the boards of the games Twenty Squares and Senet. These containers, 
 dubbed Levantine-Styled Game Boxes, were adorned by distinct imagery of a
 nimal hunt scenes, showing lions or dogs chasing ungulates. Curiously, t
 he animal scenes were always doubled, yet included a subtle difference be
 tween two iterations. In this way, I argue, the Levantine artists meant 
 to capture nuances of time and space – to prolong a fleeting moment when,
  potentially, both the predator and the prey may have still prevailed. So
  far, scholars viewed such scenes as an apt metaphor for the rivalry betw
 een the two players of board games. In this talk, I maintain that the pra
 ctice of 'repetition with variation' was also a visual version of the poet
 ic language of West-Semitic myth and ritual. I consider such a poetic mode
  of depiction to complement the religious role of the game of Twenty Squar
 es, which the Levantines employed to predict the future; a role they mus
 t have equated with the religious aspects of Senet in Egypt. Thus, the Le
 vantine-Styled Game Boxes are revealed as hybrid objects of syncretism and
  promising keys into Levantine faith and artistic practice.Speaker's Biogr
 aphy:Dr. Liat Naeh is a scholar and a museum professional focusing on the 
 art and archaeology of the ancient Middle East during the Bronze and Iron 
 Ages. She is particularly interested in Levantine artistic practices and i
 deology in an age of global exchange with the Mediterranean, Egypt, and 
 Mesopotamia. She has published extensively on Levantine bone and ivory car
 ving and ritualistic furniture, and is the co-editor of a recent volume o
 n thrones in the ancient world. Naeh is currently researching 20th-century
  displays of Biblical Archaeology within museum exhibitions in Israel and 
 beyond. Prior to joining the University of Toronto Archaeology Centre as a
  Research Associate, Naeh was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of 
 Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and at the Bard
  Graduate Center, both in New York.  \n\nSponsors \nThe Archaeology Centr
 e \n\nCategories \n Lectures \n\nAudiences \n Alumni and FriendsCommunityF
 acultyGraduate StudentsProspective StudentsStaffUndergraduate StudentsGene
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SUMMARY:The Lion Strikes Twice: Levantine-Styled Game Boxes and the Visuali
 ty of Myth
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 e-styled-game-boxes-and-visuality-myth
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