EAN: 9783700185567

THE ANCIENT THRONE TASCHENBUCH

The volume features studies focusing on specific thrones known from historical texts  artistic
depictions or excavations  or that offer an overview of the role of thrones from as early as
ancient Mesopotamia in the 3rd millennium BCE to as late as Iran and China in the 14th century
CE. Its diverse articles all present thrones as a meaningful category of material culture  one
that may inspire both inter-cultural and intra-cultural insights on how types of chairs may
embody or induce notions of kingship and a range of concepts pertaining to the religious 
ideological  and social spheres.

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