Chapter Twenty. Tree(S) On The Mountain: Landscape And Territory On The Victory Stele Of Naram-Sîn Of Agade

Tür:

Kitap Bölümü

Yazar:

I.J. Winter

Yayın yılı:

2009

Yayıncı:

BRILL

This paper pursues the tTree on the Mountaint of the Stele of Naram-Sin and its tmeaningt within a Mesopotamian system of referencing the landscape. It reviews the human players on the stele: from the left, the soldiers of Naram-Sin follow him up the slopes, two behind him in the upper-most line carrying the battle standards. The clothing and hairstyles of these enemy are particularly noteworthy. Naram-Sin occupies the center, in the upper field. There are isolated several subsets for categories of landscape for which referential, symbolic and/or narrative uses are distinguished. The trees on the mountain do not signal an identifi cation with a place, but rather an identifi cation of a place: an event that occurred in that landscape and no other; in that territory, on that frontier. The landscape elements on the Stele of Naram-Sin should be considered an attribute of the Akkadian period.Keywords: Agade; Akkadian period; categories of landscape; Naram-Sin; tree on the mountain; victory stele

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