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Trees, Kings, and Politics: Studies in Assyrian Iconography

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2003
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Porter, B. N. (2003). Trees, Kings, and Politics: Studies in Assyrian Iconography (Vol. 197). Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

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The essays collected in this volume (two previously unpublished) examine ways in which the kings of ancient Assyria used visual images to shape political attitudes and behavior at the royal court, in the Assyrian homeland, and in Assyria's vast and culturally diverse empire. The essays discuss visual images commissioned by Assyrian kings between the ninth and seventh century B.C., all carved in stone and publicly displayed - some on steles erected in provincial cities or in temples, some on the massive stone slabs lining the walls of

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  • Porter, Barbara Nevling

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Fribourg, Switzerland / Göttingen, Germany

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Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

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English

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2003

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2018-02-23

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Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis

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197

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Number of pages

Number of pages
113

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3-7278-1449-7

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Digitalisat erstellt durch Florina Tischhauser, Religionswissenschaftliches Seminar, Universität Zürich

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Green

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Porter, B. N. (2003). Trees, Kings, and Politics: Studies in Assyrian Iconography (Vol. 197). Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

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