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À la suite des études menées par Pauline Albenda ou Elena Cassin sur les relations homme-animal à travers les figures du cheval (Equus caballus Linnaeus, 1758) et du lion (Panthera leo Linnaeus, 1758), cette étude propose d'interroger spécifiquement le rendu iconographique des traits de la face de ces deux animaux ainsi que celui du visage humain sous le règne d'Assurbanipal (669-631/627 av. J.-C.). Le corpus de l'étude est constitué des scènes de chasse au lion mises au jour dans les pièces C, S et S1 du palais Nord de Ninive. Marquées par la violence de l'action, ces scènes cynégétiques donnent à voir des lions enragés, rugissant ou grondant, blessés de nombreuses flèches. Devant eux se tient le monarque, immanquablement impassible. Comment comprendre cette absence d'émotion humaine et le déplacement de l'expression des passions jusqu'à la figure animale ? La rencontre entre le roi et le lion semble ici se cristalliser autour d'un face-à-face qui, faisant tomber les masques, révèle les visages de deux égaux.
An animal face in Ashurbanipal's reliefs (7th BC) ? Case study of the horse (Equus caballus Linnaeus, 1758) and the lion (Panthera leo Linnaeus, 1758).
Following the studies carried out by Pauline Albenda or Elena Cassin on the human-animal relationship through the figures of the horse (Equus caballus Linnaeus, 1758) and the lion (Panthera leo Linnaeus, 1758), this study specifically questions the facial features of these two animals as well as that of the human face under the reign of Ashurbanipal (669-631/627 BC). The corpus of the study consists of the lion hunting scenes uncovered in rooms C, S and S1 of the Northern Palace of Nineveh. Marked by the action's violence, these hunting scenes show enraged lions, roaring or rumbling, wounded by numerous arrows. In front of them stands the monarch, unmoved. How can we understand this absence of human emotion and the displacement of the expression of passions to the animal figure? The encounter between the king and the lion seems to be crystallized here around a face-to-face encounter that, by breaking down the masks, reveals the faces of two equals.
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