Syro-Hittite Monumental Art and the Archaeology of Performance (eBook)

The Stone Reliefs at Carchemish and Zincirli in the Earlier First Millennium BCE

Alessandra Gilibert (Autor)

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2011
236 Seiten
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-022226-5 (ISBN)

Infos

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. But why exactly did the production of such an array of monumental images ever start? This volume explores how Syro-Hittite monumental art was used as a powerful backdrop to important ritual events, and opens up a new perspective by situating monumental art in the context of public performances and civic spectacles of great emotional impact, such as processions, royal triumphs, and dynastic funerals.

Alessandra Gilibert, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

Autor

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Alessandra Gilibert, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

Inhalt

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

Rezensionen

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"[...] Gilibert’s volume is a well-written, interesting, and creative analysis of the architecture and relief programs at Carchemish and Zincirli. It will be crucial reading for the burgeoning number of scholars interested in Syro-Anatolian archaeology and also constitutes an essential case study for all archaeologists interested in performance and the materialization of ideology cross-culturally."
James F. Osborne in: American Journal of Archaeology 10/2012

"[...] Gilibert’s book is a solid work that embeds a traditional art historical perspective into a more dynamic way at looking at the relationship between visual art and archaeological contexts in the process of reconstructing ancient ceremonial performances. This perspective is very innovative, especially for the study of ancient Near Eastern societies, and gives a multidimensional perspective on archaeological material that is now envisioned as part of a broader network of signifiers in which the material culture, the landscape, and the architecture are all connected in the cognitive schemata of the ancient people."
Nicola Laneri in: BMCR 2012.01.32

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.5.2011
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: Topoi – Berlin Studies of the Ancient World/Topoi – Berliner Studien der Alten Welt
• Reihe/Serie: Topoi – Berlin Studies of the Ancient World/Topoi – Berliner Studien der Alten Welt
• Zusatzinfo: 100 b/w ill.
• Verlagsort: Berlin/Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Archeology of Crowds • Archeology of Crowds, Visual Communication • Assyria • Assyrien • Hethiter • Hittites • Mesopotamia • Mesopotamien • Visual communication • Visuelle Kommunikation
• ISBN-10: 3-11-022226-4 / 3110222264
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-022226-5 / 9783110222265