List of Illustrations Author's Note Acknowledgments Introduction Ivories and Metalworks in a Levantine Context Networks and Communities in the Early Iron Age 1 Workshops, Connoisseurship, and Levantine Style(s) First-Millennium Levantine Ivories Connoisseurship and the Study of the Ancient Near East Attributing Levantine Ivories The Mobility of Style Slippery Identities Conclusions 2 Levantine Stylistic Practices in Collective Memory The Problem of Artistic Intentionality Rendering Animals and the Logic of Stylistic Practice Habitus in Levantine Style Stylistic Practices in Collective Memory Late Bronze Age Memories in the Early Iron Age Continuity, Rediscovery, or Invention? Remembering a Golden Age Conclusions 3 Creating Assyria in Its Own Image An Assyrian Court Style Assyrian Representations of Foreign Items The Dangerous Other: Booty, Tribute, Gods, and Deportees Foreign Goods in Assyria Stylistic Assyrianization Ashurbanipal's Garden Scene Assyria and Babylonia Conclusions 4 Speaking Bowls and the Inscription of Identity and Memory Levantine ("Phoenician") Metal Bowls The Inscription of Identity and Memory Drinking and Death Temporality and Presence The Enchantment of Imagery Conclusions 5 The Reuse, Recycling, and Displacement of Levantine Luxury Arts After the Fall: Mobility post Assyrian Empire Ivory in and around the Assyrian Empire Secondhand Elites The Booty of Haza'el of Damascus Conclusions: Displacements, Values, and Meanings Conclusion Theoretical Considerations Glancing Back, Casting Ahead Notes References Index.