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Introduction Introduction
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Broken and Made Whole: Permanent Mid-Limb Attachments Broken and Made Whole: Permanent Mid-Limb Attachments
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Reaching Out: Mimetic but Noticeable Limb Attachments in Banqueting Figurines Reaching Out: Mimetic but Noticeable Limb Attachments in Banqueting Figurines
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More Real than Real: Impermanent and Moveable Attached Limbs More Real than Real: Impermanent and Moveable Attached Limbs
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Always Whole: Horse Riders Always Whole: Horse Riders
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Notes Notes
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References References
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6 Stronger at the Broken Places: Affect in Hellenistic Babylonian Miniatures with Separately Made and Attached Limbs
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Published:October 2018
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Abstract
Hellenistic Babylonian figurines with separately made and attached limbs are not a uniform corpus in terms of their iconography or subject matter, but all leave similar visual traces of fragmentation on an otherwise complete miniature body. Rather than interpreting these visual “breaks” as simply an unfortunate side effect of these figurines’ manufacture, the chapter argues that the appearance of broken places actually enriched these objects’ affect by fixating and intensifying user interest on otherwise overlooked body parts. Strikingly, the artificial poses and hyper-real actions of fragmented figurine limbs all operated in the liminal zones of cultural contestation between Greeks and Babylonians: banqueting, childhood, male and female nudity, and sexual attraction. By depicting some of these most difficult points of cross-cultural contention in the miniature scale (where they were less threatening) and in fragmented form (where they were visually interesting), such figurines offered avenues into cross-cultural dialogue and communication.
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