Hatra : politics, culture and religion between Parthia and Rome / edited by Lucinda Dirven ; contributors Hikmat Basheer [and eighteen others].

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Dirven, Lucinda, editor.

Basheer, Hikmat, contributor.

Conference Name:

Hatra : Politics, Culture and Religion between Parthia and Rome (Colloquium) (2009 : Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Series:

Oriens et occidens ; Band 21.

Oriens Et Occidens ; Band 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ḥaḍr (Iraq)--History.

Ḥaḍr (Iraq).

Ḥaḍr (Iraq)--Antiquities.

Ḥaḍr (Iraq)--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (365 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stuttgart, Germany : Franz Steiner Verlag, 2013.

Summary:

Hatra is the richest archaeological site in the Parthian Empire known to date and has great potential for a better understanding of this enigmatic empire and its relationship with Rome. After an introduction to this little known site, seventeen contributions written by leading experts in the field provide the reader with the latest insights into this important late-Parthian settlement. They touch upon three themes. The first section, ""Between Parthia and Rome"" contains three articles that discuss the relationship between Parthia and Rome on the one hand, and Parthia and its vassal states

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; HATRA AGAINST ROME AND PERSIA FROM SUCCESS TO DESTRUCTION; IN THE TWILIGHT - HATRA BETWEEN ROME AND IRAN; HATRA: ON THE WEST OF THE EAST; QUESTIONS AND PROBLEMS CONCERNING THE SUDDEN APPEARANCE OF THE MATERIAL CULTURE OF HATRA IN THE FIRST CENTURIES CE; THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CITY OF HATRA; THE ANCIENT PHASES OF THE GREAT SANCTUARY AT HATRA; A NOTE ON THE INSCRIPTIONS AND ARCHITECTURAL DECORATION OF THE SMALL TEMPLES IN HATRA; NEW DISCOVERIES IN TEMPLE XIV IN HATRA; CLOTHED STATUETTES OF HERACLES FROM HATRA

WHERE IS THE MAN OF HADR, WHO ONCE BUILT IT AND TAXED THE LAND BY THE TIGRIS AND CHABORAS? ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FINAL SIEGE OF HATRAHATRA AND THE PARTHIAN COMMONWEALTH; HATRA AND PALMYRA. MONUMENTALIZATION OF PUBLIC SPACE; DOES GORGO HARM US? ABOUT THE INTERPRETATION OF H106; THE ICONOGRAPHY OF NABU OF HATRA IN THE CONTEXT OF SYRIAN CULT IMAGES; THE TRIAD OF HATRA; ROMAN AND PARTHO-SASANIAN MARTIAL INTERACTIONS: TESTIMONY OF A CHEEKPIECE FROM HATRA AND ITS PARALLELS; THE WEAPONS OF HATRA AS REFLECTION OF INTERREGIONAL CONTACTS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; LIST OF FIGURES; Plates

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 11, 2014).

ISBN:

3-515-10507-7