Common Dwelling Place of all the Gods

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Common Dwelling Place of all the Gods

Commagene in its Local, Regional and Global Hellenistic Context

Blömer, Michael (ed.); Riedel, Stefan (ed.); Versluys, Miguel John (ed.); Winter, Engelbert (ed.)
from the series Oriens et Occidens, volume 34
Published by Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021

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Abstract

The history and archaeology of Hellenistic Commagene is a rich field of study, not in the least because of the remarkable monuments and inscriptions of king Antiochos I (c. 70–36 BC). Over the last decades important new work has been done on Commagene proper, providing novel interpretations of the epigraphical and historical record or the archaeological data and individual sites, like Nemrud Dağ, Samosata or Arsameia. Simultaneously scholars have tried to better understand Hellenistic Commagene by situating the region and its history in a wider Mediterranean and Near Eastern context. This long-awaited e-book provides a critical evaluation of all these new data and ideas on the basis of a theoretically embedded, state-of-the-art overview for the history and archaeology of Hellenistic Commagene. From this volume a new picture emerges in which Hellenistic Commagene is no longer understood as peripheral and out-of-the-ordinary, but as an important node in a global Hellenistic network, from Ai-Khanoum to Pompeii and from Alexandria to Armawir.

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Michael Blömer (ed.) 
Michael Blömer is an archaeologist whose research revolves around Asia Minor and the Near East in the Hellenistic and Roman Period. He has worked on urbanism, sculpture, religious iconography, and the religious life of the Hellenistic and Roman Near East. He works at the Forschungsstelle Asia Minor, Münster University.

Stefan Riedel (ed.) 
Stefan Riedel is classical archaeologist who has worked on various aspects of the archaeology of the Hellenistic Eastern Mediterranean. His main research foci are cultural contacts and processes of interaction and transformation, the archaeology of Hellenistic kingdoms, ancient iconography and numismatics. He works at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and is affiliated researcher at Leiden University.

Miguel John Versluys (ed.) 
Miguel John Versluys is Professor and Chair of Classical & Mediterranean Archaeology at Leiden University. His research focusses on the nature and impact of Globalisation processes in the Hellenistic-Roman world.

Engelbert Winter (ed.) 
Engelbert Winter is Professor of Ancient History at the Forschungsstelle Asia Minor, Münster University. He is especially interested in the Roman Near East and in the history of religions in these regions. He published several books on the history and culture of Asia Minor and on Roman-Persian relationships in Late Antiquity.

Keywords

Ancient Globalisation | Ancient Religion | Antiochos I of Commagene | Arsameia on the Nymphaios | Bricolage | Commagene | Eurasia | Hellenism | Hellenistic Near East | Hellenistic Ruler Cult | Localism and Globalism | Material Agency | Nemrud Dağ | Objectscapes | Samosata

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Common Dwelling Place of all the Gods

Franz Steiner Verlag

598 Pages

ISBN 978-3-515-12925-1 (Print)

ISBN 978-3-515-12926-8 (eBook)

Copyright year: 2021

First published: 06.09.2021

https://doi.org/10.25162/9783515129268

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    Inhalt
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    Foreword and Acknowledgements
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    Miguel John Versluys / Stefan Riedel: Beyond East and West. Hellenistic Commagene between Particularism and Universalism
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      Rachel Mairs: ‘Ai Khanoum God with Feet of Marble’. Reading Ai Khanoum through Commagene
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      Stefan R. Hauser: ‘Hellenized Iranians?’ Antiochos I and the Power of Image
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      Matthew P. Canepa: Commagene Before and Beyond Antiochos I. Dynastic Identity, Topographies of Power and Persian Spectacular Religion
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      Helen Fragaki: Reversing Points of Reference. Commagene and the Anfushy Necropolis from Alexandria in Modern Scholarship
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      Margherita Facella: Sovereignty and Autonomy in the Hellenistic Coins of Commagene
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      Werner Oenbrink: The Late-Hellenistic Architecture of Commagene
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      Lennart Kruijer / Stefan Riedel: Transforming Objectscapes in Samosata. The Impact of the Palatial Complex
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      Bruno Jacobs: The Syncretistic Episode in Late-Hellenistic Commagene. The Greek-Persian Religious Concept of Antiochos I and The Ethnicity of the Local Population
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      Albert de Jong: Dynastic Zoroastrianism in Commagene. The Religion of King Antiochos
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      Rolf Strootman: Orontid Kingship in its Hellenistic Context. The Seleucid Connections of Antiochos I of Commagene
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      Anna Collar: Time, Echoes and Experience. Perceiving the Landscape in Commagene
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        Giusto Traina: Armenia and the ‘Orontid Connection’. Some Remarks on Strabo, Geography 11,14,15
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        Lara Fabian: Beyond and Yet In-between. The Caucasus and the Hellenistic Oikoumene
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        Vito Messina: Beyond Greece and Babylonia. Global and Local at Seleucia on the Tigris
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        Orit Peleg-Barkat: Herodian Art and Architecture as Reflections of King Herod’s Many Faces
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        Stephan G. Schmid: Was There a Nabataean Identity – And If Yes, How Many?
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        Christoph Michels: ‘Achaemenid’ and ‘Hellenistic’ Strands of Representation in the Minor Kingdoms of Asia Minor
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        Monika Trümper: Delos Beyond East and West. Cultural Choices in Domestic Architecture
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        Annette Haug: Decoscapes in Hellenistic Italy. Figurative Polychrome Mosaics between Local and Global
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      Achim Lichtenberger: Hellenistic Commagene in Context. Is ‘Global’ the Answer and Do We Have to Overcome Cultural ‘Containers’?
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    Index
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