Date Palms, Deer/Gazelles and Birds in Ancient Mesopotamia and Early Byzantine Syria. A Christian Iconographic Scheme and its Sources in the Ancient Orient
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Tartalom: http://real.mtak.hu/91964/
Archívum: REAL
Gyűjtemény: Status = Published
Subject = D History General and Old World / történelem: DE The Mediterranean Region / Mediterránum: DE1 Byzantine Empire / Bizánci Birodalom
Subject = N Fine Arts / képzőművészet: NX Arts in general / művészetek általában: NX3 Iconography, Iconology / ikonográfia, művészeti motívumok
Subject = D History General and Old World / történelem: D2 Ancient History / ókor története: D24 History of ancient Medo-Persia / ókori Közel-Kelet
Type = Book Section
Cím:
Date Palms, Deer/Gazelles and Birds in Ancient Mesopotamia and Early Byzantine Syria. A Christian Iconographic Scheme and its Sources in the Ancient Orient
Létrehozó:
Kalla, Gábor
Közreműködő:
Bács, Tamás A.
Bollók, Ádám
Vida, Tivadar
Kiadó:
Archaeolingua
Dátum:
2018
Téma:
D24 History of ancient Medo-Persia / ókori Közel-Kelet
DE1 Byzantine Empire / Bizánci Birodalom
NX3 Iconography, Iconology / ikonográfia, művészeti motívumok
Tartalmi leírás:
Two artworks of two different genres made almost two thousand years apart from each other serve as a point of departure for this study. One is a floor mosaic made in early Byzantine Syria in the sixth century A.D., and found in the monastery of Tall Bī‘a, the other is an incised ivory pyxis from the Middle Assyrian period, dated to the thirteenth century B.C. Date palms, one or more hoofed creatures and birds in a heraldic posture are focal elements on both. The comparison of the two designs and the analysis of the symbolic role of individual motifs in Mesopotamian and early Christian-Byzantine culture indicate that the similarities between their iconographic schemes are not mere chance. Although direct influences can certainly be rejected, we may assume a persistent visual tradition which included also the design on the pyxis; furthermore, despite the different overall meaning, the similarly strong symbolic content of certain elements in Christianity made them suitable for reinterpretation and thus they probably had an invigorating influence on Byzantine art.
Nyelv:
angol
Típus:
Book Section
NonPeerReviewed
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Formátum:
text
Azonosító:
Kalla, Gábor (2018) Date Palms, Deer/Gazelles and Birds in Ancient Mesopotamia and Early Byzantine Syria. A Christian Iconographic Scheme and its Sources in the Ancient Orient. In: Across the Mediterranean — Along the Nile : Studies in Egyptology, Nubiology and Late Antiquity Dedicated to László Török on the Occasion of His 75th Birthday. Archaeolingua, Budapest, pp. 863-899. ISBN 978-615-5766-18-3 (Volume 1–2); 978-615-5766-17-6 (Volume 2)
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MTMT:30430511