Ritual, Performance, and Politics in the Ancient Near EastCambridge University Press, 11 дек. 2014 г. In this book, Lauren Ristvet rethinks the narratives of state formation by investigating the interconnections between ritual, performance, and politics in the ancient Near East. She draws on a wide range of archaeological, iconographic, and cuneiform sources to show how ritual performance was not set apart from the real practice of politics; it was politics. Rituals provided an opportunity for elites and ordinary people to negotiate political authority. Descriptions of rituals from three periods explore the networks of signification that informed different societies. From circa 2600 to 2200 BC, pilgrimage made kingdoms out of previously isolated villages. Similarly, from circa 1900 to 1700 BC, commemorative ceremonies legitimated new political dynasties by connecting them to a shared past. Finally, in the Hellenistic period, the traditional Babylonian Akitu festival was an occasion for Greek-speaking kings to show that they were Babylonian and for Babylonian priests to gain significant power. |
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the Ebla coronation ritual | 40 |
1 | 81 |
3 | 92 |
4 | 153 |
8 | 165 |
35 | 191 |
Community | 211 |
Notes | 229 |
Works cited | 245 |
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Achaemenid administrative Akı¯tu festival Akkad Akkadian Akkadian empire ancestors ancient animals archaeological archives Aššur Assyrian astronomical Babylon Berossus Beydar Borsippa burials cairns celebration century ceremony Charpin city’s commemorative construction context cultic cuneiform divination documents Durand earlier early second millennium Ebla Ebla’s elite Esagila Euphrates evidence excavated Feast of Ištar figurines graves Gre Virike Greek Habur Hellenistic houses important indicate inscriptions Ištar Jezirah kingdom kings kingship kispum Larsa located Majapahit Mari Middle Bronze Age monument mound Naram-Sin Neo-Babylonian Nippur northern Mesopotamia Old Babylonian palace palû particularly past pastoralists performance perhaps political pots pottery practices priests probably Re¯š religious Ristvet ritual royal sacrifice Samsi-Addu Schwartz seals second millennium BC Seleucid Babylonia Seleucid empire Seleucid period settlement Sim’alites social space survey tablets Tell Leilan temple texts third millennium BC tombs tradition tribal tribes Umm el-Marra urban Urkiš Uruk Usiyeh Weiss Zimri-Lim