The Amman Theater Statue in its Iron Age contexts /

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Author / Creator:	Burnett, Joel S., 1968- author.
Imprint:	Alexandria (Va.) : American Society of Overseas Research, 2024. ©2024
Description:	218 pages : illustrations, maps, plans, color photographs ; 29 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Annual of the American Society of Overseas Research, 2993-7116 ; volume 75 Annual of ASOR ; v. 75.
Subject:	Sculpture, Ancient -- Jordan. Excavations (Archaeology) -- Jordan -- Amman. Iron age -- Jordan. Excavations (Archaeology) Iron age. Amman (Jordan) -- Antiquities. Jordan -- Amman. Jordan.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13508289

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Other authors / contributors:	Gharib, Romel, contributor. Parker, Don F., contributor.
ISBN:	9780897571197 0897571193
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Summary:	"A colossal basalt statue was uncovered through rescue excavation in downtown Amman, Jordan in 2010. Despite the statue's Roman period find context, its form and motifs show it to be an Iron Age sculpture, and geoscientific testing indicates a regional quarry source. Comparison with an established corpus of Iron Age stone sculpture from Amman shows the Amman Theater Statue shares the distinct iconography of a series of Amman male statues portraying deities and human rulers. Broader art-historical comparisons from Egypt, the Levant, and Mesopotamia indicate that the statue dates ca. 850-825 B.C.E., that it belonged to an Ammonite royal ancestor cult, and that in that setting it portrayed a deified, deceased Ammonite king. Archaeological and epigraphic evidence accompanying those broader Near Eastern comparisons, especially those from Syro-Anatolian political capitals from Iron Age II, and archaeological evidence from Amman indicate that the Amman Theater Statue was incorporated into an architectural structure, either a building façade or monumental gate, on the Amman Citadel (Jabal al-Qal'a), along its southern ascent, or just beyond its southern slope." --

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Abbreviations
Chapter 1. The Amman Theater Statue in Archaeological Context: Discovery and Salvage Excavation
Chapter 2. Description of the Amman Theater Statue
Chapter 3. Sourcing the Amman Theater Statue: X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis
Chapter 4. The Amman Theater Statue's Context within the Amman Corpus of Iron Age Stone Sculpture
Chapter 5. The Amman Theater Statue in Comparative Art-Historical Context
Excursus - Iron Age Royal Ancestor Cults
Chapter 6. The Amman Theater Statue's Functional, Institutional, and Ideological Contexts in Comparative Perspective
Chapter 7. Summary of Conclusions: The Amman Theater Statue and an Ammonite Royal Ancestor Cult
Appendix: The Archaeology of Iron Age Amman and the Urban Context of Ammonite Stone Sculpture
References
Indexes
Ancient Sculpture
Ancient Texts
Subjects
Modern Scholars

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