Images and monuments of near eastern dynasts, 100 BC-AD 100 /
This book is an archaeological and art-historical study of the images and monuments of Roman 'client' kings in the Near East from the Taurus to Edom (modern South East Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, and Jordan) in the important transitional period between the downfall of the Se...
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Language: English
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
Edition: First edition published in 2013.
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Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation.
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Call Number: DS56 .K76 2013
Table of Contents:
- •List of Illustrations •List of Map •Abbreviations •1. Methods, dynasts, and kingdoms •Visual strategies and messages •Context and viewer •Client kingship •Geography of the Near East •Roman conquest with leftovers •Kingdoms, sites, and peoples •2. Royal portraits •Four styles: pathos, tryphe, verism, and classicism •Near Eastern portraiture •Nabataeans •Hasmonaeans and Herodians •Ituraeans •Emesans •Kommagenians •Fashions and costumes •3. Royal palaces •Tobiads: Hyrcanus' 'baris' at Iraq el-Amir •Kommagene: palace of Samosata •Hasmonaean palaces •Herodian palaces •Nabataeans: royal palace and paradeisos in Petra •Deciphering royal rhetoric •4. Royal tombs •Attitudes towards tombs and the dead in the Roman Near East •Nemrud Dagi: tomb of Antiochos I •Jerusalem: Herod's mnemeion of opus reticulatum •Jerusalem: tomb of Helena of Adiabene •Herodeion: royal tomb in Herod's Nikopolis •Petra: Khazneh al-Fir'aun •Heliopolis: tomb of Zenodoros •Emesa: tomb of Samsigeramos •Hermel: the 'Mausoleum' •Nefesh: soul and tomb marker •5. Kings and cults •Near Eastern kings and gods •Coin imagery •Hellenistic paradigm: euergetism as diplomatic tool •Sanctuaries with royal support •Ruler worship •Ties to Rome: imperial cult •Significance of temples: survivals, revivals, or inventions? •6. Images and monuments: projections of royal ideology •Herod •Kommagene •Emesans •Ituraeans •Hasmonaeans •Herodian dynasts •Nabataeans •Absorbing traditions to enhance royal prestige •Bibliography •Maps •Coin catalogue •Index Locorum •General Index