Divine kingship at the city centre

Divine kingship at the city centre

[SHS:ARCHEO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory

Maussolleion at Halikarnassos

Carian civilisation

Turkey

funeral architecture

When the Persian dynast and Karian King Maussollos died in 352/351 BC he was interred in the most incredible dynastic monument the world had ever seen, the eponymous ruler's tomb to be, the Maussolleion at Halikarnassos. The Maussolleion was placed in the city centre of the newly planned residential city and capital of Hekatomnid Karia, and it was staged as the biggest of the sanctuaries of Halikarnassos. Surely, neither discretion nor modesty was involved in this endeavour. It was soon counted as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and already in the 18th century it was included as one of the canonical yet quite mysterious monuments of Classical Antiquity. This contribution focuses on the Maussolleion as both a dynastic tomband as a sanctuary celebrating the Hekatomnid dynasty in an Ancient Near Eastern tradition of Divine Kingship. It explores local, regional and supra-regional contexts of similar phenomena in Antiquity. Furthermore, it also focuses on the Maussolleion as a building type, forming a vital part of aristocratic culture by offering a phenomenological view of rulers' tombs and their role in urban planning.

Carstens, Anne-Marie

Le mort dans la ville : Pratiques, contextes et impacts des inhumations intra-muros en Anatolie, du début de l'Âge du Bronze à l'époque romaine, Istanbul 14-15 novembre 2011

2èmes Rencontres d'archéologie de l'IFEA : Le Mort dans la ville Pratiques, contextes et impacts des inhumations intra-muros en Anatolie, du début de l'Age du Bronze à l'époque romaine.

2013-04-05

ENG

conference proceeding

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00808265

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/80/82/65/PDF/10_Carstens.pdf

Istanbul

Turkey