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Kingship and Ancestral Cult in the Northwest Palace at Nimrud

In: Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions
Author: Brian Brown1
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  • 1 University of California Berkeley/250 Barrows Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, Email: babrown@berkeley.edu
Online Publication Date:
01 Jan 2010
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Abstract

Built in the early 9th century BCE, the Northwest Palace at Nimrud presented a new “imperial” architecture and iconography that was related to Assyrian expansionism at this time. Yet it also contained specific points of contact with the past via the royal Assyrian ancestors. A monument in the throneroom, the “center” of the state, provided the “public” view of this ideology, while one of the palace’s more secluded wings was devoted to the performance of ancestral cult. Through these and other means, rapid and fundamental socio-political change was accompanied by the idea of a logical and direct continuity with the history of Assyria.

Title:
Kingship and Ancestral Cult in the Northwest Palace at Nimrud
Article Type:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/156921210X500495
Language:
English
Pages:
1–53
Keywords:
kingship; mortuary architecture; ancestral cult; Iron Age; Assyria; imperialism
In:
Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions
In:
Volume 10: Issue 1
Publisher:
Brill
E-ISSN:
1569-2124
Print ISSN:
1569-2116
Subjects:
Religion, Ancient Near East and Egypt, General, Biblical Studies, Religion in Antiquity, Religious Studies

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