The Sumerian World (Routledge Worlds)
that kings sponsored grand banquets to celebrate military victories with their soldiers (Lafont 2009 : 6 , 19 – 20 ). Another oc ...
–– Kings and queens –– Figure 10.11Seal of unknown provenience. Courtesy of Yale Babylonian Collection. Figure 10.12Seal given b ...
hierarchy (Winter 1987 b). By extension of the king, also queens and high priestesses of royal blood appear as patrons of their ...
THE GOD-LIKENESS OF ROYALS Since Mesopotamian kingship was sacred, god-like features in the portrayal of royals neither began wi ...
changed over time. Yet, since these other headgears were exclusive to them, they func- tioned as insignia. In imagery, royals in ...
transcendent spheres. They claim to be installed by the gods, fulfil their duties and receive divine protection and prosperity i ...
will never be possible to excavate all ancient sites systematically. Akkad, for one, has not been discovered, and if it lies und ...
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CHAPTER ELEVEN THE SUMERIAN SACRED MARRIAGE: TEXTS AND IMAGES Kathleen McCaffrey T he nature of a ritual of kingship known a ...
(divine–human), and theogomic (divine–divine) unions. This variability of definition makes the Sacred Marriage a suspect empiric ...
Additional testimony comes from a myth with the modern title Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta(Cohen, S. 1973 ; Berlin 1981 ).This ...
Behind the search for something that looks like a marriage, however, lies an unstated assumption, namely, that we are looking fo ...
Despite its importance in Sumerian art, the palm vase libation is not mentioned in any hymn or myth. The omission is odd because ...
example, the bushy tree in the vase libation scene depicted in Fragment ST. 4 , the top register of a Gudea stele (Suter 2000 : ...
approximated male dress by combining the masculine headdress and waist-dagger with a wrap pinned at the shoulder (McCaffrey 2008 ...
–– Kathleen McCaffrey –– Figure 11.3Side B of the Stele of the Vultures, diagrammed to illustrate size-rank hierarchy and gravit ...
Size-rank hierarchy and relative placement further indicate that the Early Dynastic “naked priest” is the city ruler himself. Th ...
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