Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Déesses Et Reines D'Élam

Déesses Et Reines D'Élam DÉESSES ET REINES D'ÉLAM PIERRE AMIET ABSTRACT The article deals with reinterpretation of the cylinder seal edited by E. Porada in 1962. The author proposes another division of the composition depicted on the seal and understands it as a meeting of two goddesses which probably symbolized a union of two ethnical elements composing Elamite political entity. The presence of an eagle and a man in the composition seems to be of marginal importance. The author also attracts attention to a terracotta plaque from Susa and an impression of a cylinder seal (AO 30.000) with images of feminine figures which apparently represent Elamite queens of the first half of the 2nd millennium B.C. à la mémoire d'Edith Porada Edith Porada publia en 1962, dans la premiere version de son ouvrage desormais classique consacre a I'art iranien,l un tres curieux sceau-cylindre en coquille, ac- quis par le grand collectionneur Mohsene Foroughi (Fig. 1). Elle commenqa par decrire simplement le decor complexe, riche en details, dont la figure principale était une deesse tr6nant, avec des serpents sortant de ses epaules. Le style etait celui de 1' epoque d'Akkad, mais la provenance, 1' organisation du decor et bon nombre de details etrangers a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia Brill

Déesses Et Reines D'Élam

Download PDF
8 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/brill/d-esses-et-reines-d-lam-PZcTafNags

References

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
Brill
Copyright
Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0929-077X
eISSN
1570-0577
DOI
10.1163/157005799X00025
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

DÉESSES ET REINES D'ÉLAM PIERRE AMIET ABSTRACT The article deals with reinterpretation of the cylinder seal edited by E. Porada in 1962. The author proposes another division of the composition depicted on the seal and understands it as a meeting of two goddesses which probably symbolized a union of two ethnical elements composing Elamite political entity. The presence of an eagle and a man in the composition seems to be of marginal importance. The author also attracts attention to a terracotta plaque from Susa and an impression of a cylinder seal (AO 30.000) with images of feminine figures which apparently represent Elamite queens of the first half of the 2nd millennium B.C. à la mémoire d'Edith Porada Edith Porada publia en 1962, dans la premiere version de son ouvrage desormais classique consacre a I'art iranien,l un tres curieux sceau-cylindre en coquille, ac- quis par le grand collectionneur Mohsene Foroughi (Fig. 1). Elle commenqa par decrire simplement le decor complexe, riche en details, dont la figure principale était une deesse tr6nant, avec des serpents sortant de ses epaules. Le style etait celui de 1' epoque d'Akkad, mais la provenance, 1' organisation du decor et bon nombre de details etrangers a

Journal

Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1999

There are no references for this article.