Watanabe Esther Chikako

ワタナベチカコ | Watanabe Esther Chikako

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Professor

Research field (5)： Archaeology , Art history , Aesthetics and art studies , Museology , Cultural properties

Research keywords (2)：アッシリア学・美術史・文明環境史 , Assyriology

Research theme for competitive and other funds (14)：

2021 - 2024 A study of lions in Ancient Near East
2019 - 2024 The provenance and manufacturing processes of Mesopotamian clay tablets
2017 - 2021 Reconstruction of Assyrian reliefs through the analysis of material stone
2014 - 2019 Ecohistory of Iraq through the analysis of cuneiform tablets and other clay objects
2012 - 2017 Scribal culture and society in the ancient western Asia - the Middle Euphrates and Habur areas in the second millennium BC

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Papers (29)：

Jaafar Jotheri, Mark Altaweel, Akihiro Tuji, Ryo Anma, Benjamin Pennington, Stephanie Rost, Chikako Watanabe. Holocene fluvial and anthrogenic processes in the region of Uruk in southern Mesopotamia. Quartnary International xxx. 2017. 1-13
渡辺千香子. 動物が象徴する古代メソポタミアの精神世界. 関学西洋史論集. 2016. 39. 41-47
渡辺千香子. 古代メソポタミアにおけるビールとワインの文化. 西アジア考古学. 2016. 17. 67-74
WATANABE Chikako Esther. The symbolic role of animals in Babylon: A contextual approchi to the lion, the bull and the mushussu. Iraq 77. 2015. 249-259
渡辺千香子. メソポタミアの王権と日傘に関する考察. 大阪学院大学人文自然論叢. 2015. 69-70. 13-34

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MISC (10)：

An analysis of the composition, "The Battle of Til-Tuba". 4^th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. 2004
The 'Continuous Style' in the narrative schemes of Late Assyrian reliefs. 49e Reucontre Assyriologique Internationale, London. 2003
The King as a Mythological Hero -Symbolic Function conveyed by the king in the Assyrian Royal Hunt-. Bulletin of Cultural and Natural Sciences in Osaka Gakuin University. 1997. 35. 1-12
WATANABE Chikako. Implicit Meanings of the Assyrian Royal Lion Hunt -Its Ritual Connotations and Symbolic Function in Society-. Bulletin of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan. 1997. 40. 1. 40-57
"Symbolism of the Royal Lion Hunt in Assyria"(口頭発表). 43rd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale 1-5 July 1996, at Charles Iniversity, Prague, Czech Republic. 1996

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Books (24)：

I am ashurbanipal: King of the Word, King of Assyria
British Museum with Thames & Hudson 2018
Composite Artefacts in the Ancient Near East: Exhibiting an imaginative materiality, showing a genealogical nature
Archaeopress 2018
At the Dawn of History: Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honour of J. N. Postgate
Eisenbrauns 2017
The Archaeology of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and Adjacent Regions
Oxford: Archaeopress 2016
Critical Approaches in Ancient Near Eastern Art
De Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston 2014

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Lectures and oral presentations (56)：

アッシュバニパルとライオンライオンから見たアッシュバニパルのライオン狩り
(第62回シュメール研究会 2019)
“The ambivalent relationship between the king and the lion in Mesopotamia: the kings as a fierce lion and alion hunter”,Fierce lions,angry mice and fat-tailed sheep: Animal encounters in the ancient Near East
(Mcdonald Institute for Archaeological Research 2019)
アッシュバニパルの王宮浮彫に表現されたライオンに関する考察
(第60回日本オリエント学会 2018)
The Different Types of Lions Represented in Ashurbanipal's Lion Hunt Reliefs
(64th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale 2018)
アッシリア浮彫石材の分析研究について
(第61回シュメール研究会 2018)

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Education (6)：

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Professional career (3)：

Work history (6)：

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Committee career (1)：

2009 - International Scientific Committee member for Dūr-Katlimmu Studies (Chief editor: Professor Hartmut Kühne), Berlin

Awards (2)：

Association Membership(s) (6)：

日本文化財科学会 , 日本西アジア考古学会 , 美術史学会 , 美学会 , 日本オリエント学会 , 国際アッシリア学会(Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale)

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