Research Catalog

Title

The ritual landscape at Persepolis : glyptic imagery from the Persepolis fortification and Treasury archives / by Mark B. Garrison ; from lectures delivered at the Collège de France, November 2009, sponsored by Pierre Briant, chaire d'histoire et civilisation du monde achéménide et de l'empire d'Alexandre ; partially underwritten by the Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute.

Author

Garrison, Mark B.

Publication

• Chicago, Illinois : The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, [2017]
• ©2017

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Details

Description

xlvi, 447 pages, 63 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps; 30 cm

Summary

There are, perhaps, no more contentious issues within the study of Achaemenid Persia than those surrounding its religion(s) and religious iconography. Owing to the role that fire plays in Zoroastrian beliefs in later periods in Iran, almost any discussion of the subject of Achaemenid religion will eventually turn to the identification of sacred fire, fire temples, fire worship, and fire altars in the archaeological, epigraphic, and literary records. The focus of this book is a corpus of glyptic imagery preserved as impressions on two large archives of administrative tablets from Persepolis, the Persepolis Fortification archive (509-493 BC) and the Persepolis Treasury archive (492-457 BC). The glyptic imagery here published concerns representations of what have been traditionally termed "fire altars" and/or "fire temples." Most of this glyptic evidence has never been published; many of the structures and the scenes in which they occur are strikingly original. The goals of this study are to introduce a new corpus of visual imagery concerning religious ritual in the Achaemenid period and to explore the significance of this visual language for our understanding of ritual traditions emerging within the heart of the empire at its most critical formative period, the reign of Darius I. This study seeks also to use the Persepolitan glyptic evidence as a springboard to re-visit the most famous "fire altar" depicted in Achaemenid art, that on the tomb relief of Darius I at Naqs-e Rostam.

Series Statement

Studies in ancient oriental civilization, 0081-7554 ; number 72

Uniform Title

Studies in ancient oriental civilization ; no. 72.

Subject

• To 1500
• Seals (Numismatics) > Iran > Persepolis
• Inscriptions, Persian > Iran > Persepolis
• Glyptics > Iran > Persepolis
• Fire > Religious aspects > Zoroastrianism
• Sacred space > Iran > History > To 1500
• Zoroastrianism
• Antiquities
• Glyptics
• Inscriptions, Persian
• Sacred space
• Seals (Numismatics)
• Persepolis (Iran) > Antiquities
• Iran
• Iran > Persepolis

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages xv-xlv) and index.

Call Number

JFG 18-156

ISBN

• 1614910340
• 9781614910343

LCCN

2016947666

OCLC

1018396572

Author

Garrison, Mark B., author.

Title

The ritual landscape at Persepolis : glyptic imagery from the Persepolis fortification and Treasury archives / by Mark B. Garrison ; from lectures delivered at the Collège de France, November 2009, sponsored by Pierre Briant, chaire d'histoire et civilisation du monde achéménide et de l'empire d'Alexandre ; partially underwritten by the Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute.

Publisher

Chicago, Illinois : The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies in ancient oriental civilization, 0081-7554 ; number 72

Studies in ancient oriental civilization ; no. 72.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages xv-xlv) and index.

Chronological Term

To 1500

Research Call Number

JFG 18-156