Title: The ancient throne :
Authors: Naeh, Liat,; Gilboa, Dana Brostowsky,; International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East
Date: 2020
Publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press,
Physical description: 215 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: C
Abstract: "The volume features studies focusing on specific thrones known from historical texts, artistic depictions or excavations, or that offer an overview of the role of thrones from as early as ancient Mesopotamia in the 3rd millennium BCE to as late as Iran and China in the 14th century CE. Its diverse articles all present thrones as a meaningful category of material culture, one that may inspire both inter-cultural and intra-cultural insights on how types of chairs may embody or induce notions of kingship and a range of concepts pertaining to the religious, ideological, and social spheres"--
Contents: Preface by the series editor / Barbara Horejs -- Preface / Liat Naeh, Dana Brostowsky Gilboa -- In the presence of the ancient throne : an introduction / Liat Naeh -- The play with throne designs in third millennium BCE Mesopotamia / Claudia E. Suter -- Enthroned upon mountains : constructions of power in the Aegean Bronze Age / Caroline J. Tully, Sam Crooks -- Mycenaean thórnoi, Homeric thronoi : textual perspectives / Vassilis Petrakis -- To sit in splendour : the ivory throne as an agent of identity in tomb 79 from Salamis, Cyprus / Christina Ruth Johnson -- Throne among the gods : a short study of the throne in archaic Greek iconography / Yael Young -- Thrones and crowns : on the regalia of the west semitic monarchy / Aaron Koller -- The throne of King Midas / Elizabeth Simpson -- The ivory thrones from Parthian Nisa : furniture design between Philhellenism and Iranian Revival / Niccolò Manassero -- Women enthroned : from Mongol to Muslim / Sheila Blair -- Solomon as Kosmokratōr and the fashioning of his mechanical throne from a comparative perspective / Allegra Iafrate
Subject headings (LCSH): Middle East--Civilization--Congresses.; Throne in art--Congresses.; Thrones--History--To 1500--Congresses.