Images and Monuments of Near Eastern Dynasts, 100 BC - AD 100
ISBN: 9780199670727 | 0199670722
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 5/15/2013
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This book is an archaeological and art-historical study of the images and monuments of Roman 'client' kings in the Near East from the Taurus to Edom (modern South East Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, and Jordan) in the important transitional period between the downfall of the Seleucid empire and Rome's establishment of provincial administration across the entire region. In this volume, Kropp treats royal portraits, tombs, palaces, coins, and temples as historicaldocuments and aims at uncovering royal identities and ideological aspira... MORE
Preface
List if Figures
List of Maps
Abbreviations
1. Methods, Dynasts, and Kingdoms
2. Royal Portraits
3. Royal Palaces
4. Royal Tombs
5. Kings and Cults
6. Images and Monuments: Projections of Royal Ideology
Coin Charts
Bibliography
Index
Andreas J. M. Kropp is Lecturer in Classical Art at the Classics Department, University of Nottingham.
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