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Body of the able ruler: narrative history and state ideology in Akkad and Sumer

ARCH 0351 / AWAS 0800 Introduction to the Ancient Near East Brown University ~ Fall 2009. Body of the able ruler: narrative history and state ideology in Akkad and Sumer. October 20, 2009.

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Body of the able ruler: narrative history and state ideology in Akkad and Sumer

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  1. ARCH 0351 / AWAS 0800 Introduction to the Ancient Near East Brown University ~ Fall 2009 Body of the able ruler: narrative history and state ideology in Akkad and Sumer October 20, 2009

  2. ideology an established dialogue, a social transaction, a cultural discourse that is delievered in the form of a complex worldview, power discourse that seeps into everyday life... not propaganda... not produced by the elites... narû: commemorative monument upright stones with pictorial representations and texts (steles), reliefs carved on living rock, inscribed statues, “obelisks” and a whole plethora of Near Eastern “monuments” of the public sphere, presenting pictorial and textual narrativized narrative a convention of telling the past, whereby (past) events are linked in a cause-effect relationship that they do not inherently possess. pictorial and textual kinds.Narrativizing is historical operation that re-tells the past in narrative form, highlighting relationships between events that are not otherwise there.

  3. Border conflict between the regional states of Umma and Lagash (25th c. BC)

  4. Stele of Eannatum. ca. 2460 BC. from Girsu (Telloh), fragments

  5. Myth and History: Stele of Eannatum. ca. 2460 BC. from Girsu (Telloh) Limestone H. 1.8 m; L. 1.3 m; Th. 0.11 mLouvre Museum, Paris

  6. Historical actors of the stele a medium for historical representation Eannatum and Ningirsu on the two sides of the same stone

  7. Objects of kin(g)ship Vase dedicated by Entemena, king of Lagash, to Ningirsu. Silver and copper, ca. 2400 BC. Telloh, ancient city of Girsu.

  8. The “body of the able ruler” royal rhetoric and visual representation in th 3rd millennium BC: Eannatum, Naram Sin and Gudea

  9. Tell Asmar ancient Eshnunna Diyala River valley city plan with excavated buildings

  10. Tell Asmar ancient Eshnunna Diyala River valley plan of “North Palace”

  11. Kish, Plano-convex building

  12. Akkadian kingdom... (ca 2334-2193 BC)

  13. narû frontier/peripheral monuments commemorative monuments at the center audience: local populations and rulers of foreign landscapes marking the edge of territorries audience: urban citizens at home construction of a socially accepted history

  14. Kings of Akkad Sargon: 2334-2279 BC Rimush: 2278-2270 BC Manishtushu: 2269-2255 BC Naram-Sin 2254-2218 BC Sharkalisharri 2217-2193 BC

  15. Akkadian seals: mythological tales

  16. Tell Brak, “Palace of Naram Sin”

  17. Diorite fragment of a stele found in Susa, Akkadian period, most probably dated to Sargon (ca 2334-2279 BC). Louvre Museum

  18. Disk of Enheduanna, Calcite, found at Ur (Tell al Mugayyar) University of Pennsylvania Museum

  19. Translucent alabaster fragment of a stele found in Susa, Akkadian period

  20. Olivino-gabbro fragment of a stele found in Susa, Akkadian period, most probably dated to Sargon (ca 2334-2279 BC) Rimush Stele Limestone fragment of a stele found in Tello (Girsu), Akkadian period, dated by inscription to Rimush (ca 2278-2270 BC)

  21. Basalt fragment of a stele found in Pir Hussein (SE Turkey), Akkadian period, dated by inscription to Naram-Sin (ca 2254-2218 BC)

  22. A commemorative monument of the Akkadians... War booty for the Elamites...

  23. 1898... at Susa...

  24. Stele of Naram Sin, Found in Susa Acropolis

  25. Stele of the Akkadian king Naram Sin, Found in Susa Acropolis narrative a convention of telling the past, whereby (past) events are linked in a cause-effect relationship that they do not inherently possess. pictorial and textual kinds.Narrativizing is historical operation that re-tells the past in narrative form, highlighting relationships between events that are not otherwise there. agency the ability to change the world. a field of power that is extended to everyday individuals and things. ideology an established dialogue, a social transaction, a cultural discourse that is delievered in the form of a complex worldview, power discourse that seeps into everyday life... not propaganda... not produced by the elites... technology not the dull, mechanical techniques of making things, but complex cultural systems maintained by a collectively shared body of knowledge about symbolically charged operations of manufacture. skilled craftsmanship, enchanted technologies, magic. commemorative monument steles, rock reliefs, inscribed statues, “obelisks” and a whole plethora of Near Eastern “monuments” of the public sphere, presenting pictorial and textual narrativized

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