The Reuse of Orthostats and Manipulation of Memory in the Iron Age Syro-Hittite Kingdoms
This article examines the role of relief-carved orthostats as resources for the creation and manipulation of collective memory in the Iron Age Syro-Hittite kingdoms through the phenomenon of the reuse of older works in later contexts. In spite of the inclination of their material design toward perma...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Peeters
[2019]
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Semitica
Year: 2019, Volume: 61, Pages: 399-439 |
| IxTheo Classification: | HH Archaeology KBL Near East and North Africa TC Pre-Christian history ; Ancient Near East |
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| Summary: | This article examines the role of relief-carved orthostats as resources for the creation and manipulation of collective memory in the Iron Age Syro-Hittite kingdoms through the phenomenon of the reuse of older works in later contexts. In spite of the inclination of their material design toward permanence and the application of curses prohibiting interference, orthostats of one ruler were frequently removed, recarved, or reinstalled by his successors, and occasionally we can reconstruct an ideological purpose behind these actions. Cet article examine la façon dont les orthostates servent à la création et à la manipulation d'une mémoire collective au sein des royaumes syro-hittites de l'âge du Fer à travers le phénomène de remploi d'ouvrages anciens en contextes postérieurs. En dépit d'une volonté de permanence de la présence de malédictions interdisant toute interférence, les orthostates d'un souverain sont fréquemment déplacés, retaillés ou réinstallés par ses successeurs, et l'on peut parfois reconstruire une visée idéologique sous-jacente. |
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| ISSN: | 2466-6815 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Semitica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2143/SE.61.0.3286698 |