• Liat NAEH - Dana BROSTOWSKY GILBOA (Eds.)

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

Proceedings of the Workshop held at the 10th ICAANE in Vienna, April 2016

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Liat NAEH
is a Research Associate at the Archaeology Centre, University of Toronto

Dana BROSTOWSKY GILBOA
is an independent scholar.


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.

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Der Band enthält Studien, die sich auf bestimmte Throne konzentrieren, die aus historischen Texten, künstlerischen Darstellungen oder Ausgrabungen bekannt sind. Sie bieten einen Überblick über die Rolle von Thronen vom alten Mesopotamien im 3. Jtd v. Chr. bis hin zum Iran und China im 14. Jhd. n. Chr. Die Beiträge stellen Throne als eine bedeutungsvolle Form materieller Kultur vor, die sowohl inter- als auch intrakulturelle Einblicke liefert, wie Stuhltypen Vorstellungen von Königtum und eine Reihe von Konzepten im religiösen, ideologischen und sozialen Bereich verkörpern.

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

    Allegra Iafrate

The Ancient Throne. The Mediterranean, Near East, and Beyond, from the 3rd Millennium BCE to the 14th Century CE.Proceedings of the Workshop held at 10th ICAANE in Vienna, April 2016, pp. 191-210, 2020/09/02

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Abstract

This paper offers some reflections on a paradigmatic royal seat, that of King Solomon, by surveying some of its most notable written (and rarely depicted) descriptions from roughly the third to the thirteenth century. Through this analysis I intend to develop three main points of interest: the connection between power and technology and the way in which mechanical wonders, such as automata, became part of the courtly language of self-representation, mostly between Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages; the shared dimension of this language and the circulation of visual topoi of kingship common to Jews, Christians, and Muslims; and finally, the constant, porous and dynamic interaction between sources (oral, visual, and textual) and actual settings. As we shall see, the relationship between descriptions and objects, in dialogue through the centuries, prompted the constant update and revival of ancient traditions, which, far from being static and immutable, were altered and modified in response to the surrounding context.

Keywords: automata, cosmic kingship, Solomon, throne, kosmokratōr, throne, Magnaura