Gilibert Syro-Hittite Monumental Art and the Archaeology of Performance

The Stone Reliefs at Carchemish and Zincirli in the Earlier First Millennium BCE
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-3-11-022226-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 2, 236 Seiten

Reihe: Topoi / Berlin Studies of the Ancient World / Berliner Studien der Alten Welt

The ceremonial centers of the Syro-Hittite city-states (1200-700 BC) were lavishly decorated with large-scale, open-air figurative reliefs – an original and greatly influential artistic tradition that has captivated the imagination of its contemporaries as well as that of modern scholars. This volume explores how Syro-Hittite monumental art was used as a powerful backdrop to important ritual events, and it opens up a new perspective by situating the monumental heritage in the context of large public performances and civic spectacles of great emotional impact. The first part of the volume focuses on the sites of Carchemish and Zincirli, offering a close reading of the relevant archaeological contexts.

The second part of the volume discusses the embedment of monumental art in ritual performance and examines how change in art relates to change in ceremonial behavior, and how the latter relates in turn to change in power structures and models of rulership.

Zielgruppe

Academics, Libraries, Institutes

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gilibert, Alessandra

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Vorderasien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Altorientalische Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;CONTENTS;6
2;List of Figures;8
3;List of Tables;10
4;Bibliographical abbreviations;12
5;Acknowledgements;14
6;1 Introduction;16
7;2 The Syro-Anatolian region in the Iron Age;20
7.1;2.1 The urban landscape;22
7.2;2.2 Questions of ethnicity;24
7.3;2.3 Carchemish;25
7.4;2.4 Zincirli;29
8;3 Carchemish;34
8.1;3.1 Archaeological fieldwork;34
8.2;3.2 The monumental contexts;35
8.2.1;3.2.1 The South Gate;37
8.2.2;3.2.2 The Water Gate;40
8.2.3;3.2.3 The Lower Palace Area;46
8.2.4;3.2.4 The Herald’s Wall;53
8.2.5;3.2.5 The King’s Gate complex;56
8.2.6;3.2.6 The temple of Tarhunzas;65
8.2.7;3.2.7 The Hilani;68
9;4 Zincirli;70
9.1;4.1 Archaeological fieldwork;70
9.2;4.2 The monumental contexts;71
9.2.1;4.2.1 The Southern City Gate.;73
9.2.2;4.2.2 The Outer Citadel Gate;76
9.2.3;4.2.3 The Lions’ Pit;83
9.2.4;4.2.4 Gate Q;90
9.2.5;4.2.5 The colossal statue at the outer wall of Building J;91
9.2.6;4.2.6 The Kulamuwa orthostat at the entrance to Building J;94
9.2.7;4.2.7 Inside the Southwestern complex;99
9.2.8;4.2.8 Hilani IV;100
9.2.9;4.2.9 Hilani III;103
9.2.10;4.2.10 Monuments at and around Hilani II;106
9.2.11;4.2.11 The funerary context beside Hilani I;108
9.2.12;4.2.12 The funerary stele in the north lower town;110
10;5 The embedment of monumental art in ritual performance;112
10.1;5.1 Urban setting;114
10.2;5.2 Iconographic evidence;121
10.3;5.3 Written evidence;124
10.4;5.4 Monumental art and ceremonial events;127
11;6 Art and ritual performance in diachronic perspective;130
11.1;6.1 The archaic transitional period (twelfth to mid-tenth century BCE);130
11.2;6.2 The age of civic ritual (late tenth to early ninth century BCE);134
11.3;6.3 The mature transitional period (870–790 BCE);140
11.4;6.4 The age of court ceremony (790–690 BCE);143
12;7 Conclusions;148
13;Bibliography;154
14;Catalogue;174
15;Index of concepts;238

Über Autor(innen)

Gilibert, Alessandra
Alessandra Gilibert, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany