Irene Winter | The Stela and The State
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- čas přidán 30. 06. 2024
- Presented by Irene Winter, former William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts (Emerita), Harvard University.
The Stela and the State: Monuments and Politics in Ancient Mesopotamia
Public Monuments constituted one of the major contributions of ancient Mesopotamia to world history. From the third millennium BCE to the first, rulers dedicated freestanding stone stelae to their piety to the gods and their exploits in battle. Although we are far from having a complete record of all such monuments, enough works have been recovered in the archaeological record to be able to see both similarity and difference, and to have a sense of the specific meaning of individual works at important historical junctures. The lecture provides a summary of known monuments, in order to stress the power such works were believed to have had and the role they played in propagating royal ideology.
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Great lecture, thank you for sharing!
She blew my mind -- and that was the first time I got to use that phrase in a non-joking way.
Hmm... the tombstone.. read from bottom up, god on bottom, victorious king on top line.... is it possibly also indicative of an awareness of political power (vis a vis the god is the foundation or base of the king's power) and of the value of branding and political PR to advertise and maintain it? Just a thought.
Does anybody know what prof Winter says at 15:20? "One of the tropes Naram-Sin and other Akkadian rulers used in their texts is that in a single day they wer victorious over [can't understand], a terrible terrain and a people." Anybody understand what the first thing is?
Leadership of many states today believes that the social structure of 4th millennium bc suites for the 3d millennium ad.
On the Hamurrabi Stale, I believe it's line 510 or so where Jesus famous "Golden Rule" is written in reverse (i.e., do NOT do unto others what do you NOT want done to yourself). And Jesus said (A "word for word" quote? See Matthew 7:12 & Ralmut, Shabbat 31a is identical).
SHALOM, Rabbi! B'Seder.