The Standards of Mesopotamia in the Third and Fourth Millennia BCE

An Iconographic Study
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-16-161465-1
Verlag: Mohr Siebeck

Buch, Englisch, Band 52, 429 Seiten, Format (B × H): 240 mm x 170 mm, Gewicht: 924 g

Reihe: Orientalische Religionen in der Antike

Depictions of standards form a fundamental part of the visual repertoire of ancient Mesopotamia. These depictions can offer great insight into the thought world of the peoples with which they are associated, because different standards were associated with different deities, and could be found in multiple contexts. In this book, Renate Marian van Dijk-Coombes examines the standards which are represented in the visual culture of the third and fourth millennia BCE, covering the Uruk, Early Dynastic, Akkadian and Neo-Sumerian periods. She analyses each of the different standards, how they looked, what they symbolised and the context(s) in which they were found. In addition, developments and changes in the representation of these standards are traced across the periods under discussion.

Autoren/Hrsg.

van Dijk-Coombes, Renate Marian

Dijk-Coombes, Renate M. van

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religionen der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Archäologie spezieller Regionen und Zeitalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religion des alten Ägyptens

Über Autor(innen)

van Dijk-Coombes, Renate Marian
Born 1980; 2016 PhD; 2016-18 postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Ancient Studies of the University of Stellenbosch; 2019-21 postdoctoral research fellow in the Research Focus Area: Ancient Texts at the Faculty of Theology of North-West University, South Africa; since 2022 postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Ancient and Modern Languages of the University of Pretoria, South Africa.