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The Ritual Landscape at Persepolis: Glyptic Imagery from the Persepolis Fortification and Treasury Archives - Couverture souple

Garrison, Mark B.

 
9781614910343: The Ritual Landscape at Persepolis: Glyptic Imagery from the Persepolis Fortification and Treasury Archives
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1614910340 ISBN 13 : 9781614910343
Editeur : Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, 2017

Synopsis

There are, perhaps, no more contentious issues within the study of Achaemenid Persia than those surrounding its religion(s) and religious iconography. Owing to the role that fire plays in Zoroastrian beliefs in later periods in Iran, almost any discussion of the subject of Achaemenid religion will eventually turn to the identification of sacred fire, fire temples, fire worship, and fire altars in the archaeological, epigraphic, and literary records.

The focus of this book is a corpus of glyptic imagery preserved as impressions on two large archives of administrative tablets from Persepolis, the Persepolis Fortification archive (509 493 BC) and the Persepolis Treasury archive (492 457 BC). The glyptic imagery here published concerns representations of what have been traditionally termed fire altars and/or fire temples. Most of this glyptic evidence has never been published; many of the structures and the scenes in which they occur are strikingly original.

The goals of this study are to introduce a new corpus of visual imagery concerning religious ritual in the Achaemenid period and to explore the significance of this visual language for our understanding of ritual traditions emerging within the heart of the empire at its most critical formative period, the reign of Darius I.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

There are, perhaps, no more contentious issues within the study of Achaemenid Persia than those surrounding its religion(s) and religious iconography. Owing to the role that fire plays in Zoroastrian beliefs in later periods in Iran, almost any discussion of the subject of Achaemenid religion will eventually turn to the identification of sacred fire, fire temples, fire worship, and fire altars in the archaeological, epigraphic, and literary records.

The focus of this book is a corpus of glyptic imagery preserved as impressions on two large archives of administrative tablets from Persepolis, the Persepolis Fortification archive (509 493 BC) and the Persepolis Treasury archive (492 457 BC). The glyptic imagery here published concerns representations of what have been traditionally termed fire altars and/or fire temples. Most of this glyptic evidence has never been published; many of the structures and the scenes in which they occur are strikingly original.

The goals of this study are to introduce a new corpus of visual imagery concerning religious ritual in the Achaemenid period and to explore the significance of this visual language for our understanding of ritual traditions emerging within the heart of the empire at its most critical formative period, the reign of Darius I.

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Éditeur
Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1614910340
ISBN 13 
9781614910343
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
448
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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