Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History: Assyrian Imperial Elites and Textile Culture of the 1st Millennium BC: Shaping Power Visions Through Textiles

Gaspa, Salvatore

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Title:: Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History

Publication:: Berlin: De Gruyter

Note:: Gesehen am 27.02.14

Scope:: Online-Ressource

ISSN:: 2328-9562

ZDB-ID:: 2759401-4

Keywords:: Zeitschrift

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Title:: Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History

Publication:: Berlin: De Gruyter

Note:: Gesehen am 27.02.14

Scope:: Online-Ressource

ISSN:: 2328-9562

ZDB-ID:: 2759401-4

Keywords:: Zeitschrift

Classification:: Geschichte

Collection:: Geschichte

Copyright:: Rights reserved

Accessibility:: Eingeschränkter Zugang mit Nutzungsbeschränkungen

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Author:: Gaspa, Salvatore

Title:: Assyrian Imperial Elites and Textile Culture of the 1st Millennium BC: Shaping Power Visions Through Textiles

Publication:: Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025

Language:: English

Information:: Abstract: As a crucial component of the materiality of the first world empire, textile culture documented in archival cuneiform documents, visual art, and archaeological materials from 1st-millennium BC Assyria enables historians to reconstruct the social identities, power visions, and economic systems of the people who ruled the “Land of Aššur”. Through the analysis of royal clothes, it is possible to form an idea of the clothing ensemble, the aesthetic, and power visions that shaped the presence of the king and his queen in public ceremonies and in visual art narratives, and to see how royal textile art played a role in political communication. Royal garments, combined with power accessories such as royal insignia and other objects, represented a powerful means to visualize royal personhood and what the institution of Assyrian kingship meant in the imperial phase of Assyrian history. Representations of royal scenes in visual art integrate the documentary picture from texts and archaeological materials and show how the royal costume developed over the Neo-Assyrian period and how the centrality and superior status of the royal person were emphasised by visual interaction between the king’s clothes and other textiles in the scene. Queenly garments represent another channel for the communication of the success of the Assyrian imperial project. Less represented in textual sources and material evidence are other upper-class sectors of Assyrian imperial society, in which textiles equally played an important role as markers of social identity and status. Non-royal textiles were an integral part of power narratives in the Neo-Assyrian age, contributing to create the sense of a common Assyrian identity, of elite’s unity and cohesion, and full adherence to the imperial project.

Scope:: Online-Ressource

Note:: Open Access; Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet

Keywords:: Assyria ; clothes ; king ; queen ; elite ; power

Classification:: Geschichte; Sonstiges

URN:: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2501130436117.064350396885

Collection:: Geschichte; Sonstiges

Copyright:: CC BY

Accessibility:: Free Access

Author:: Gaspa, Salvatore

Title:: Assyrian Imperial Elites and Textile Culture of the 1st Millennium BC: Shaping Power Visions Through Textiles

Publication:: Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025

Language:: English

Information:: Abstract: As a crucial component of the materiality of the first world empire, textile culture documented in archival cuneiform documents, visual art, and archaeological materials from 1st-millennium BC Assyria enables historians to reconstruct the social identities, power visions, and economic systems of the people who ruled the “Land of Aššur”. Through the analysis of royal clothes, it is possible to form an idea of the clothing ensemble, the aesthetic, and power visions that shaped the presence of the king and his queen in public ceremonies and in visual art narratives, and to see how royal textile art played a role in political communication. Royal garments, combined with power accessories such as royal insignia and other objects, represented a powerful means to visualize royal personhood and what the institution of Assyrian kingship meant in the imperial phase of Assyrian history. Representations of royal scenes in visual art integrate the documentary picture from texts and archaeological materials and show how the royal costume developed over the Neo-Assyrian period and how the centrality and superior status of the royal person were emphasised by visual interaction between the king’s clothes and other textiles in the scene. Queenly garments represent another channel for the communication of the success of the Assyrian imperial project. Less represented in textual sources and material evidence are other upper-class sectors of Assyrian imperial society, in which textiles equally played an important role as markers of social identity and status. Non-royal textiles were an integral part of power narratives in the Neo-Assyrian age, contributing to create the sense of a common Assyrian identity, of elite’s unity and cohesion, and full adherence to the imperial project.

Scope:: Online-Ressource

Note:: Open Access; Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet

Keywords:: Assyria ; clothes ; king ; queen ; elite ; power

Classification:: Geschichte; Sonstiges

URN:: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2501130436117.064350396885

Collection:: Geschichte; Sonstiges

Copyright:: CC BY

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