CHAIRS AND THRONES AS ‘DOMESTICATING’ TOOLS IN RITUAL ACTIVITY CONNECTED TO ANCIENT NEAR EAST MORTUARY PRACTICES AND IN THE NETHERWORLD

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F25%3A10512145" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/25:10512145 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=.pWDJhZ9Dl" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=.pWDJhZ9Dl</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.19272/202503803005" target="_blank" >10.19272/202503803005</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
CHAIRS AND THRONES AS ‘DOMESTICATING’ TOOLS IN RITUAL ACTIVITY CONNECTED TO ANCIENT NEAR EAST MORTUARY PRACTICES AND IN THE NETHERWORLD
Original language description
This article explores the role of seating furniture in Mesopotamian mortuary practice and Netherworld myths from the late 3rd to the early 2nd millennium BCE. Focused on Sumerian and Akkadian texts, supplemented by the later Ugaritic materials, it examines seating furniture’s significance in death and afterlife narratives as well as in ritual. Through textual analysis, it uncovers the multifaceted symbolic roles of thrones and chairs in Mesopotamian society, while also investigating similar patterns in the neighbouring western regions. By filling a gap in contemporary scholarship, the study enhances understanding of cultural perceptions and symbolic meanings associated with seating furniture in Mesopotamia, highlighting the adaptability of mythological motifs and ritual practices across geographical boundaries. The author’s thesis is that the use of seating furniture in both contexts is a means to domesticate the potentially uncontrolled sphere of death through symbols that are imaginatively clear and recall a familiar environment closer to the individual.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60102 - Archaeology

Project
<a href="/en/project/GA23-05181S" target="_blank" >GA23-05181S: Archaeology of Texts. Tradition, Transmission, and Transformation in the Ancient Near East</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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