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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  (15):
  • 2024 - 2029 A study of clay tablets and canal sediments from Girsu in Mesopotamia
  • 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
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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". 4th 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):
  • - 1998 ケンブリッジ大学大学院 東洋学部(Faculty of Oriental Studies) アッシリア学
  • - 1998 University of Cambridge Faculty of Oriental Studies Assyriology
  • - 1990 Gakushuin University Graduate School of Humanities
  • - 1989 University of Birmingham
  • - 1986 Gakushuin University Faculty of Letters Department of Philosophy
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Professional career (3):
  • Doctor of Philosophy(PhD) (University of Cambridge(U.K))
  • Master of Arts(M.A.) (University of Birmingham(U.K))
  • Master of Arts(M.A.) (Gakushuin University)
Work history (6):
  • 2019/04 - Osaka Gakuin University Faculty of International Studies
  • 2008/04 - Osaka Gakuin University Faculty of International Studies
  • 2008/04 - Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
  • 1999/10 - ウィーン大学 東洋学研究所 客員教授(2000年 9月まで)
  • 1999/04 - Osaka Gakuin Junior College Department of International Studies
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Committee career (1):
  • 2009 - International Scientific Committee member for Dūr-Katlimmu Studies (Chief editor: Professor Hartmut Kühne), Berlin
Awards (2):
  • 2007 - 第3回 日本学術振興会賞受賞(受賞対象研究:「物語論の観点から古代メソポタミア美術を解釈する研究」)
  • 1998 - 第20回 日本オリエント学会 奨励賞受賞
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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