Afterlives of Ancient Rock-Cut Monuments in the Near East

Carvings in and Out of Time
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-46207-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 123, 444 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 984 g

Reihe: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East

This book concerns the ancient rock-cut monuments carved throughout the Near East, paying particular attention to the fate of these monuments in the centuries after their initial production. As parts of the landscapes in which they were carved, they acquired new meanings in the cultural memory of the people living around them. The volume joins numerous recent studies on the reception of historical texts and artefacts, exploring the peculiar affordances of these long-lasting and often salient monuments. The volume gathers articles by archeologists, art historians, and philologists, covering the entire Near East, from Iran to Lebanon and from Turkey to Egypt. It also analyzes long-lasting textual traditions that aim to explain the origins and meaning of rock-cut monuments and other related carvings.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ben-Dov, Jonathan

Rojas, Felipe

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Bildhauerei, Plastik, Denkmäler
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Archäologie spezieller Regionen und Zeitalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction

Felipe Rojas and Jonathan Ben-Dov

2 Entangled Images: Royal Memory, Posthumous Presence, and the Afterlives of Assyrian Rock Reliefs

Karen Sonik and David Kertai

3 Narrating Temporality: Three Short Stories about Egyptian Royal Living-Rock Stelae

Jen Thum and Anne-Claire Salmas

4 Forgetting an Empire, Creating a New Order: Trajectories of Rock-Cut Monuments from Hittite into Post-Hittite Anatolia, and the Afterlife of the “Throne” of Kizildag

Lorenzo d’Alfonso and Matteo Pedrinazzi

5 A Carving in Antioch: History, Magic, Antiquarianism, Archaeology

Felipe Rojas

6 Herodotus and Empire: Ancient Near Eastern Monuments and Their Cultural Recycling in Herodotus’ Histories

Robert Rollinger

7 Sculpting in Time: Rock Reliefs, Inscriptions and the Transformation of Iranian Memory and Identity

Matthew P. Canepa

8 Éminences grises: Emergent Antiquities in Seventeenth-Century Iran

Lindsay Allen and Moya Carey

9 Neo-Babylonian Rock Reliefs and the Jewish Literary Imagination

Jonathan Ben-Dov

10 Translatio studii: Stelae Traditions in Second Temple Judaism and Their Legacy in Byzantium

William Adler

11 The Long History of an Imaginary Inscription: Josephus’s Two Pillars in Early Modern European Histories of Astronomy

John Steele

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jonathan Ben-Dov, Ph.D. (2005), is Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Tel Aviv University. He has published widely on the Hebrew Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Ancient Time reckoning, including a recently co-edited volume The Construction of Time in Antiquity: Ritual, Art, and Identity (Cambridge University Press, 2017).


Felipe Rojas, Ph.D. (2010), is Associate Professor of Archaeology at Brown University. He currently co-directs archaeological projects in Turkey and Jordan, and recently published the book The Pasts of Roman Anatolia: Interpreters, Traces, Horizons (Cambridge University Press, 2019).