Two (?) Lion Reliefs from Iron Age Moab: Further Evidence for an Architectural and Intellectual Koiné in the Levant?
The collection of the Karak Archaeological Museum contains two carved basalt slabs, both of which show the rear parts and hindquarters of a leonine figure. Although the two slabs differ vastly in their state of preservation, a comparison of their physical properties and iconographic features suggest...
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
| Έλεγχος διαθεσιμότητας: | HBZ Gateway |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2017
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| Στο/Στη: |
Bulletin of ASOR
Έτος: 2017, Τεύχος: 377, Σελίδες: 85-106 |
| Σημειογραφίες IxTheo: | ΗΗ Αρχαιολογία KBL Εγγύς Ανατολή, Βόρεια Αφρική TC Προχριστιανική Εποχή, Αρχαία Ανατολή |
| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
CROSS-cultural communication
B Archaeology B Mesopotamia B Iron Age B Sculpture B ARCHAEOLOGICAL museums & collections B Jordanian sculpture B Moab B Karak B Ανάγλυφο (χαρτογραφία) B architectural relief sculpture |
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| Σύνοψη: | The collection of the Karak Archaeological Museum contains two carved basalt slabs, both of which show the rear parts and hindquarters of a leonine figure. Although the two slabs differ vastly in their state of preservation, a comparison of their physical properties and iconographic features suggests that the two reliefs originally formed a matching pair and were part of a single architectural feature. Comparing the slabs to the well-known corpus of northern Levantine monumental sculpture, it is argued that the reliefs constitute the remains of two gateway figures, most plausibly dated to the Iron Age. The Karak slabs thus provide the first likely evidence for the use of architectural stone sculpture by Moabite elites, a practice most commonly associated with the Iron Age kingdoms of the northern Levant. Lion sculptures were often employed as gateways figures in public buildings, especially in the northern Levant and northern Mesopotamia, attesting to the close relationship between these images and the royal ideology they helped to project. Through their existence, the Karak slabs not only provide further evidence for cross-cultural artistic interaction in the Iron Age Levant but also suggest that ancient Karak played an important role in these exchanges. |
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| ISSN: | 2161-8062 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: American Schools of Oriental Research, Bulletin of ASOR
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5615/bullamerschoorie.377.0085 |
