The Sumerian World (Routledge Worlds)
and control and at the same time establishing visibility was found for the temple of the high priestess (Giparu). A prodigious e ...
THE PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE OF THE SUMERIAN WORLD – A RESUMÉ The so-called renaissance of the Sumerian world in the Ur III period di ...
the effort invested in buildings are the materialised expression of resource availability and control. Control of space, control ...
NOTE 1 Roughly at the same time the new building forms, the oval occurs at al Hiba and at al Ubaid – a coincidence, which, howev ...
—— ( 2005 ) Bauen, Planen, Raum gestalten: Repräsentation der Macht via Architektur, ein ambivalentes Unterfangen. In Otium: Fes ...
CHAPTER TEN KINGS AND QUEENS: REPRESENTATION AND REALITY Claudia E. Suter No other kind of relic or text from the past can o ...
not only belittled the power-hungry “kings of Kish”, but also bespeaks the attitude towards women in the male-dominated early Me ...
nor philosophical debate were yet born. Textual sources tend to leave commonly shared knowledge unexplained (Civil 1980 ). Late ...
10 per cent of Sˇu-Suen’s date formulae and curtailed the use of personal names includ- ing Sˇu-Suen as a theophoric element (Wa ...
tionaries and royal wives state that the king gave the seal to his subordinate or wife (Mayr and Owen 2004 ); the same seems to ...
message is related to the hierarchy and power of the state (Winter 1985 ). Although rarely preserved as such, sculptural program ...
the agrarian state, crop and animal husbandry, the labour force carrying the products of the economy and, in the culminating sce ...
up a cup much like the enthroned goddess (Figure 10. 2 ). A seated figure with a cup signified banquet (Selz 1983 ). According t ...
–– Kings and queens –– Figure 10.3Door plaque of Ur-Nanshe from Tello (drawing by author) Figure 10.4Seal of Gudea from Tello (d ...
The foundation figurines in the shape of a basket carrier, which first appear under Gudea and remain standard until the Isin-Lar ...
libations are poured by cult personnel (e.g., Winter 1985 : figs. 6 , 8 , 12 ; Figure 11. 2 in this volume), and so does Gudea h ...
behind a nude male who pours the libation stands a full-face female with similar attire and hairstyle as Enheduana, followed by ...
a result of the successful campaign a booty procession, followed by a procession of animals brought for sacrifice and/or consump ...
The earliest identified victory monument is the Early Dynastic stela of Eanatum of Lagash. It renders on one side episodes of th ...
relief at Darband-i-Gawr, which depicts a king stepping over fallen enemies in a very similar stance and outfit as Naramsin but ...
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