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100 1 _aSuter
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aGudea's Temple Building :
_bThe Representation of an Early Mesopotamian Ruler in Text and Image /
_cSuter.
246 3 _aThe Representation of an Early Mesopotamian Ruler in Text and Image
264 1 _aLeiden;
_aBoston :
_bBRILL,
_c2000.
300 _a1 online resource.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aBrill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
490 1 _aCuneiform Monographs ;
_v17
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _aGudea of Lagash, who ruled at the end of the third millennium B.C., wanted to be remembered as a temple builder. An extensive narrative inscribed on two huge clay cylinders, one of the longest and best preserved Sumerian texts, recounts his construction of the temple of Ningirsu, Lagash's patron deity. More than sixty sculpted limestone fragments belong to several stelae erected in the temples Gudea built and depict their construction. A large number of inscribed and often sculpted, artifacts provide additional information on Gudea's activities. This study treats this visual and textual material as a coherent corpus for the first time. It analyses contents, narrative structure, composition and message. Text and image are compared to elucidate the characteristics of each medium and to arrive at a comprehensive picture of the royal rhetoric of the time. The book includes a catalogue of all artifacts, and a translation of selected text passages.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aSumerian language
_xRhetoric.
650 0 _aTemples in art.
650 0 _aTemples in literature.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tGudea's Temple Building : The Representation of an Early Mesopotamian Ruler in Text and Image.
_dLeiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2000
_z9789056930356
830 0 _aBrill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495.
830 0 _aCuneiform Monographs ;
_v17.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004496279
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