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SUMMARY:Assyria Identities
DESCRIPTION:Kings play an outsized role in the historical recollection
  of the Assyrian Empire. The Assyrian rulers themselves deliberately f
 ostered this notion of royal predominance and omnipresence through roy
 al images situated throughout the empire. The Mesopotamian conceptuali
 zation of images\, however\, diverged from our own in several respects
 : it neither demanded mimesis nor privileged naturalism. Assyrian roya
 l images were not designed to showcase individual physiognomic feature
 s\, but to communicate the status of the king as divinely perfected (a
 nd nearly indistinguishable) examples of Assyrian kingship. Empires\, 
 however\, are not ruled by their kings alone but are better understood
  as collaborative enterprises. This raises the question of how other A
 ssyrian elites\, such as eunuchs and queens\, were able to represent t
 hemselves. This lecture will explore the ways in which these groups an
 d individuals were able to negotiate\, establish\, and communicate the
 ir own roles and status within the Assyrian imperial enterprise.
LOCATION:ISAW Lecture Hall
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