Mythos as a Mode of Remembrance and Its Reactualization in the Image

Chapter V turns to the image and discusses first former art historical approaches in ancient Near Eastern studies to the narrative in the image. It then introduces W. Mitchell’s notion of text-image dialectic and Schriftbildlichkeit (pictorial notation). It makes a case for a semiotic approach informed by Gottfried Boehm’s notion of the deixis of the image to justify a narrative reading of the image in the process of reception. This narrative reading is informed by the interpictoriality of the image which is anchored in a stream of tradition as well as its intermediality with mythic narratives and ritual performance.