= Aro S., Images of the Hittite King, in: HHE 497-601. [Ch. 11; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110661781-012. Abstract: This chapter defines and describes the basic features of the Hittite “decorum”
of the royal image, i.e. the existing modes of representing the body of the
king. Currently, there is no scholarly consensus concerning many of the central
pieces of royal imagery as far as their datings or conclusions made about them
are concerned. Viewed through the lens of Bildwissenschaft, it is possible to perceive
the hieroglyphic names appearing on royal digraphic seals as another body
of the image of the Great King along with the anthropomorphic figures on stone
reliefs and in three-dimensional stone statues. Furthermore, this chapter discusses
textual and visual sources divided according to a functional but tentative
chronological order. In order to find out all possible appearances of these images
and define the modes used, it is necessary to include discussions of the more
fragmentary and ambiguous pieces of evidence, some of which in earlier research
are thought to represent kings, while some have gone hitherto unnoticed.] Neue Abfrage | New Search
