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The Ancient Throne. The Mediterranean, Near East, and Beyond, from the 3rd Millennium BCE to the 14th Century CE

Oriental and European Archaeology Volume 14

The Ancient Throne. The Mediterranean, Near East, and Beyond, from the 3rd Millennium BCE to the 14th Century CE

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ISBN-13978-3-7001-8556-7
ISBN-13 Online978-3-7001-8802-5
Subject AreaPrehistory
Quality reviewrefereed - online - print

Preliminaries

page 1

Table Of Contents

page 7

Barbara Horejs

Preface by the Series Editor

page 9

Liat Naeh - Dana Brostowsky Gilboa

Preface

page 11

Liat Naeh

In the Presence of the Ancient Throne: An Introduction

page 13

Claudia E. Suter

The Play with Throne Designs in Third Millennium BCE Mesopotamia

page 21

Caroline J. Tully - Sam Crooks

Enthroned Upon Mountains: Constructions of Power in the Aegean Bronze Age

page 37

Vasilis Petrakis

Mycenaean thórnoi, Homeric θρόνοι: Textual Perspectives

page 61

Christina Ruth Johnson

To Sit in Splendour: The Ivory Throne as an Agent of Identity in Tomb 79 from Salamis, Cyprus

page 85

Yael Young

Throne Among the Gods: A Short Study of the Throne in Archaic Greek Iconography

page 105

Aaron Koller

Thrones and Crowns: On the Regalia of the West Semitic Monarchy

page 123

Elizabeth Simpson

The Throne of King Midas

page 135

Niccolò Manassero

The Ivory Thrones from Parthian Nisa: Furniture Design between Philhellenism and Iranian Revival

page 151

Sheila Blair

Women Enthroned: From Mongol to Muslim

page 173

Allegra Iafrate

Solomon as Kosmokratōr and the Fashioning of his Mechanical Throne from a Comparative Perspective

page 191

Index

page 211