Pourdavoud Lecture Series and Cunard Lecture Series: Beate Pongratz-Leisten
Ancient Near Eastern Narratives: Making a Case for the Epistemic Function of Myth in Text and Image Beate Pongratz-Leisten (New York University) Wednesday December 2, 2026 at 4:00 pm Pacific Time Royce Hall 306 and Via Zoom Registration Link: https://forms.gle/aNCt12TXFDrfwULP7 Join Livestream Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/96272801601 Throughout its history, Assyriological scholarship has turned to exploring many facets of ancient epistemology, including lexical lists, divinatory knowledge, medicine, mathematics, pharmaceutical knowledge, legal compendia, and commentary literature. Two domains of knowledge production conspicuously have remained left out of the picture: mythic narratives and the image. The book Myth, Text, and Image in Ancient Mesopotamia: A...