The (im)materiality of the Netherworld and its (re)presentation in ancient Mesopotamia: an interpretation of the iconographic repertoire and documentary sources

In the present article, we will propose a rereading of the images referring to the Netherworld in ancient Mesopotamia from a broad theoretical discussion, especially the one is called “iconic turn”, whose objective is to deconstruct the hegemonic power granted to the written sources by Western tradi...

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Autor principal: Cabrera Pertusatti, Rodrigo
Formato: Artículo publishedVersion Peer-reviewed papers Artículo evaluado por pares
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Instituto de Arqueología y Museo, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e IML, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán 2020
Materias:
Inframundo
Antigua Mesopotamia
Iconografía
Literatura
Netherworld
Ancient Mesopotamia
Iconography
Literature
Acceso en línea:http://publicaciones.csnat.unt.edu.ar/index.php/mundodeantes/article/view/26
http://suquia.ffyh.unc.edu.ar/handle/suquia/10021
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Suquía - Instituto de Antropología de Córdoba (IDACOR, CONICET y UNC) de Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
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topic Inframundo
Antigua Mesopotamia
Iconografía
Literatura
Netherworld
Ancient Mesopotamia
Iconography
Literature
spellingShingle Inframundo
Antigua Mesopotamia
Iconografía
Literatura
Netherworld
Ancient Mesopotamia
Iconography
Literature
Cabrera Pertusatti, Rodrigo
The (im)materiality of the Netherworld and its (re)presentation in ancient Mesopotamia: an interpretation of the iconographic repertoire and documentary sources
topic_facet Inframundo
Antigua Mesopotamia
Iconografía
Literatura
Netherworld
Ancient Mesopotamia
Iconography
Literature
description In the present article, we will propose a rereading of the images referring to the Netherworld in ancient Mesopotamia from a broad theoretical discussion, especially the one is called “iconic turn”, whose objective is to deconstruct the hegemonic power granted to the written sources by Western tradition and, in addition, the Studies of Material Culture, which have opened the debate on the core importance of “objects”/“things” as participating agents of social relations. The Netherworld was presented as a geographical/topographical space, called kur and/or ki in literary and lexical texts from the second millennium BCE, depending on its horizontal (in the Eastern mountains) and/or vertical (as antithesis of heaven) location for the imaginary of the moment. To that end, we propose a narrative of the images corresponding to a corpus of cylinder seals of Early Dynastic, Sargonic, and Old Babylonian periods, which together with oral stories and ritual practices, served to cement a vision about the world of dead in literary texts. In this way, the projection of a posthumous universe had already begun to take shape in the iconography of the middle of the third millennium BCE, next to the evidence of a mortuary cult, also accredited by the burials of the ruling elite.
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Peer-reviewed papers
Artículo evaluado por pares
author Cabrera Pertusatti, Rodrigo
author_facet Cabrera Pertusatti, Rodrigo
author_sort Cabrera Pertusatti, Rodrigo
title The (im)materiality of the Netherworld and its (re)presentation in ancient Mesopotamia: an interpretation of the iconographic repertoire and documentary sources
title_short The (im)materiality of the Netherworld and its (re)presentation in ancient Mesopotamia: an interpretation of the iconographic repertoire and documentary sources
title_full The (im)materiality of the Netherworld and its (re)presentation in ancient Mesopotamia: an interpretation of the iconographic repertoire and documentary sources
title_fullStr The (im)materiality of the Netherworld and its (re)presentation in ancient Mesopotamia: an interpretation of the iconographic repertoire and documentary sources
title_full_unstemmed The (im)materiality of the Netherworld and its (re)presentation in ancient Mesopotamia: an interpretation of the iconographic repertoire and documentary sources
title_sort (im)materiality of the netherworld and its (re)presentation in ancient mesopotamia: an interpretation of the iconographic repertoire and documentary sources
publisher Instituto de Arqueología y Museo, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e IML, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán
publishDate 2020
url http://publicaciones.csnat.unt.edu.ar/index.php/mundodeantes/article/view/26
http://suquia.ffyh.unc.edu.ar/handle/suquia/10021
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