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

Kód výsledku v 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>

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60102 - Archaeology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA23-05181S" target="_blank" >GA23-05181S: Archeologie textů. Tradice, transmise a transformace na starověkém Předním východě</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Rivista degli Studi Orientali

ISSN

0392-4866

e-ISSN

1724-1863

Svazek periodika

98

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2-3

Stát vydavatele periodika

IT - Italská republika

Počet stran výsledku

21

Strana od-do

69-89

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105029363352