Dynastic deeds : hunt scenes in the funerary imagery of the Achaemenid Eastern Mediterranean / Alessandro Poggio.

Oxford : BAR Publishing, 2020.

1 online resource (xii, 160 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white).

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This study adopts a transregional approach that focuses on connectivity dynamics in order to present a wider picture of artistic, cultural and political phenomena in the Mediterranean. It examines dynastic funerary art at the end of the fifth century and in the fourth century BC by focusing - through a wide range of evidence - on what funerary images can reveal about the societies that produced them. It analyses renowned dynastic tombs from south-western Anatolia (present-day Turkey) such as the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus and the Nereid Monument of Xanthos, but also from Phoenicia (present-day Lebanon). A common element among the similarities displayed by these tombs is the nearly constant presence of the multiple-quarry hunt iconography, which consists of prey from different species depicted in one figurative programme.

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December 04, 2023

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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