Exemplars of Kingship: Art, Tradition, and the Legacy of the Akkadians
Melissa Eppihimer
Abstract
The Akkadian kings (ca. 2334–2154 BCE) created the first territorial state in the ancient Near East and were remembered as model kings for more than two millennia thereafter. Exemplars of Kingship: Art, Tradition, and the Legacy of the Akkadians evaluates how later rulers engaged with Akkadian visual models and memories of Akkadian kingship in their own images. Through analyses of post-Akkadian victory monuments, votive statues, cylinder seals, and other works of art, the book explores the intersection of visual traditions and cultural memory in ancient Mesopotamia. Exemplars of Kingship also ... More
Keywords: Akkadian, Mesopotamia, Mesopotamian art, tradition, cultural memory, reception, historical consciousness, kingship, interpictoriality, intervisuality
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2019 | Print ISBN-13: 9780190903015 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: July 2019 | DOI:10.1093/oso/9780190903015.001.0001 |
