The Aramaeans in Ancient Syria

214 dominik bonatz prepared by a servant.36 a fan bearer stands behind each representation of the seated ruler (visible on the n ...

art 215 the royal family that is moving in parallel to the entrance.42 Insight into the participants’ status and role can be gai ...

216 dominik bonatz in numerous Luwian locations at city gates and the entrances to palaces.46 In samʾal such figures conspicuous ...

art 217 gate e.51 It is only when we come to the individual lions found in the area of hilani II and III that the stylistic para ...

218 dominik bonatz suggest that the two groups of works were produced at different times.57 however, the fact that the rule of K ...

art 219 the citadel and consisted in an encounter with the reliefs on the small orthostats on the southern side and the eastern ...

220 dominik bonatz either this art represents the continuation of an indigenous north syrian– hurrian tradition or the adaptatio ...

art 221 as to the identity of the gods they support. according to a local hurrian- syrian tradition, the central figure on a bul ...

222 dominik bonatz that all the monumental inscriptions and sculptural works dating from the time prior to the assyrian conquest ...

art 223 on the lions found in hadattu (arslan tash), ninurta-bēl-uṣur rendered his inscriptions in three languages—assyrian, ara ...

224 dominik bonatz additional lions or fragments of lion sculptures attributable to this sty- listic group were found in the sec ...

art 225 areas comes from two chance finds, the basalt orthostat with a represen- tation of a sphinx from the site of the large m ...

226 dominik bonatz clothed in a long undergarment and wears a round cap with flat horns as a sign of his divine nature. the desi ...

art 227 statue of the storm-god from the cult room of tell halaf is notable among these pieces because it comes from an architec ...

228 dominik bonatz reflects his leading role in the panthea of northern syria—a role he con- tinued to play in the context of ar ...

art 229 works provide no conclusive evidence of the ethnic linguistic identity of the rulers who had them erected.105 a clear as ...

230 dominik bonatz smiting storm-god generally belongs to the iconographic tradition of the syro-hittite storm deities, but his ...

art 231 also uncertain whether tukulti-ninurta II commissioned the stele and its inscription.113 In an effort to shed light on t ...

232 dominik bonatz to suggest a rendering of the storm-god in the Late Bronze age tradition of the smiting Baʿal Ṣaphon. however ...

art 233 the storm-god of aleppo figures as the leading aramaean deity in the official aramaic inscriptions from the 9th and 8th ...