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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
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Preliminaries

1

Table Of Contents

7

Barbara Horejs

Preface by the Series Editor

9

Liat Naeh, Dana Brostowsky Gilboa

Preface

11

Liat Naeh

In the Presence of the Ancient Throne: An Introduction

13

Claudia E. Suter

The Play with Throne Designs in Third Millennium BCE Mesopotamia

21

Caroline J. Tully, Sam Crooks

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

37

Vasilis Petrakis

Mycenaean thórnoi, Homeric θρόνοι: Textual Perspectives

61

Christina Ruth Johnson

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

85

Yael Young

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

105

Aaron Koller

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

123

Elizabeth Simpson

The Throne of King Midas

135

Niccolò Manassero

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

151

Sheila Blair

Women Enthroned: From Mongol to Muslim

173

Allegra Iafrate

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

191

Index

211