Bodily Violence in Early Old Babylonian Glyptics: a Performative Act?

Violence is considered an integral part of human life although, over the last few decades, interest in this issue has grown from dramatic contemporary situations (from the Balkan wars to the Syrian conflict) producing new areas of scientific interest. One of these is the archaeology of violence which has been approached from different points of view, but has almost always been intended as study of warfare and related topics