Seleucid and Parthian terracotta figurines from Babylon

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The Seleucid and Parthian Terracotta Figurines from Babylon in the Iraq Museum, the British Museum and the Louvre. Author: K. Karvonen-Kannas: Place/ Publisher/ Year Florence: unknown, Serie/Volume: Monographie di Mesopotamia 4: Contents: 0 Records.

Get this from a library. The Seleucid and Parthian terracotta figurines from Babylon: in the Iraq Museum, the British Museum, and the Louvre. [Kerttu Karvonen-Kannas]. cially Kerrtu Karvonen-Kannas and Jean-Fran¸cois Salles.

The terracotta figurines and plaques of Dura-Europos constitute in some respects a unique ensemble, and the opportunity to compare the body of material from Dura with ensembles from such other sites as Seleucia on the Tigris, Babylon, Assur, and Failaka has broadened the scope of this. “Seleucid-Parthian Figurines from Babylon in the Nippur Collection: Implications of Misattribution and Re-evaluating the Corpus,” IRAQ, Volume 78 (), p.

“Fascination with the Tiny: Social Negotiation through Miniatures in Hellenistic Babylonia,” World Archaeology, Volume (), p. An art historical evaluation of these figurines is undertaken, which links these figurines to the general use of hybrid Greek-Babylonian imagery in Seleucid-Parthian figurines, and.

Figurine of a harpist. Seleucid and Parthian terracotta figurines from Babylon book in Seleucid and Parthian period. 3rd c. BCE- 3rd c. Terracotta, traces of red paint. Inv. no.: Sb Website (no photo yet).: Statuette of woman on couch, wearing a Phrygian cap. KARVONEN-KANNAS K. The Seleucid and Parthian terracotta figurines from Babylon (Monografie di Mesopotamia, IV), Firenze The Author studies the ensemble of the Seleucid and Parthian terracotta figurines from Babylon preserved in the Iraq Museum, the British Museum and the Louvre Museum, pointing out the iconographic and stylistic features of this.

Babylon was the capital city of Babylonia, a kingdom in ancient Mesopotamia, between the 18th and 6th centuries was built along the left and right banks of the Euphrates river with steep embankments to contain the river's seasonal floods.

Babylon was originally a small Akkadian town dating from the period of the Akkadian Empire c. BC. The town became part of a. Parthian art was Iranian art made during the Parthian Empire from BC to AD, based in the Near has a mixture of Persian and Hellenistic influences.

For some time after the period of the Parthian Empire, art in its styles continued for some time. A typical feature of Parthian art is the frontality of the people shown. The Seleucid Empire was an incredibly broad one and the processes at work in it weren't half as clear (nor are they half as understood) as those that happened in the Problematic Empire (although again, that's actually variable, depending on whether you are just talking about Egypt or the Levant, Cyprus, southern Anatolian coast and parts of the Aegean).

Abstract: The dissertation is on the terracotta figurines of Seleucid and Parthian Babylon, which form the most important archaeological finds of the period in both Babylon and other parts of central and southern Mesopotamia. The material consists of Babylon figurines in the collections of the Iraq Museum, the British Museum and the Louvre.

Most of the terracotta figurines found on the Acropolis also render Greek iconography (Martinez-Sève, a, p. ; Figure 1). This area was thus occupied during the Seleucid period. This area was thus occupied during the Seleucid period. C. BCE he captured Seleucia, the former Seleucid capital.

In BCE he took Babylon. At Parthian Assur, the use of Parthian arches is again prominently featured. But the use of circularity as an architectural feature during the Parthian period is pronounced in other ways. bronze, terracotta, and stone figures, decorated interior.

The Seleucid Empire ( BCE) was the vast political entity established by Seleucus I Nicator (“Victor” or “Unconquered”, l. BCE, r. BCE), one of the generals of Alexander the Great, after Alexander’s death in BCE.

When Alexander died, he left no certain successor to his kingdom but, allegedly, claimed it should go to “the strongest”. The Parthian Empire (/ ˈ p ɑːr θ i ən /; BC – AD), also known as the Arsacid Empire (/ ˈ ɑːr s ə s ɪ d /), was a major Iranian political and cultural power in ancient Iran.

Its latter name comes from its founder, Arsaces I, who led the Parni tribe in conquering the region of Parthia in Iran's northeast, then a satrapy (province) under Andragoras, in rebellion against the. Eleanor Robson 5 The Astronomical Diaries and Religion in Seleucid and Parthian Babylon: The Case of the Prophet of Nanāya Lucinda Dirven 6 The Museum Context of the Astronomical Diaries Reinhard Pirngruber 7 From Babylon to Baḫtar: The Geography of the Astronomical Diaries Kathryn Stevens 8 Royal Presence in the Astronomical Diaries Marijn.

Essay. The city of Babylon lay on the River Euphrates in southern Mesopotamia, in what is today Iraq. Although it was not among the oldest cities in this part of the world (the earliest of which is normally considered to be Uruk), in ancient Mesopotamian mythology it came to be seen as the first city, made at the creation of the world by its patron god, Marduk.

This was a time of great importance in the history of the entire Middle East, and embraced figures of the stature of Cyrus, Darius and Xerxes. The sources for this period are more diverse than for any other in Iran's history, the bulk of the evidence being preserved in Babylonian, Elamite, Egyptian and Greek.

Small-scale reclining figurines in Parthian costume also emphasize linear details of dress rather than anatomical form, as evident in a terracotta example that features a person reclining on a couch identifiable as male due to his tunic and trousers.

This type of reclining figurine was particularly popular in Babylon, Seleucia, and Uruk. The city of Babylon was cited by Herodotus as one of the royal residences of the Achaemenid kings, together with Pasargadae-Persepolis, Susa, and Ecbatana.

By choosing Babylon as the capital city of his empire, Alexander shifted the axis of. Terracotta votives showing this strong Herakles equipped with club, lion's skin and, occasionally, a baldric have been found throughout Mesopotamia and Susiana.

The closest parallel is provided by a figurine from Susa which so accurately reproduces the forms of the Failaka Herakles that both figures may well come from the same mould6.Cataphracts - a Parthian element in the Seleucid art of war Differences in the arms and armour of troops operating in the east and the west of the Seleucid state is theoretically possible.

Some elements of defensive armour found at Ai Kha- noum 15 show certain similarities with those of the Parthian cataphracts described by Roman writers."Notes on Seleucid and Parthian Chronology," Berytus 8: Black, J.

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