La Siria Nell'Età del Ferro: un modello di sviluppo

Resumen

The datation of the end of the Bronze Age to the early 12th cent B.C. and the reassessment of the chronology of the 12-11th cent B.C. Luwian kingdoms argue for a reduction of the Dark Age of Syria and Anatolia and account for the strong continuity documented by the reliefs of Malatya and Karkemish. The consistent activity of a workshop in the region of Karkemish and its vicinity can be connected with the new building programs of the local dinasty. 2 - Founding new cities. towns, fortresses and habours. building and replanning the old sites, celebrating the new foundations and giving them the royal name, decorating the gates with reliefs which illustrate rituals, worship and triumph are examined as a few aspects of the new urban ideology of Iron Age I (12th-10th cent B.C.) related to dynastic propaganda 3 - The sculptured friezes of the 12-10 cent., marked by some degree of continuity with the past and inner coherence, are followed in the 9-8th cent. B.C. by a variety of genres and works mirroring both multiplication of workshops and specialization in classes and repertoires; standardization, serial production of images and selection of propitiatory and magic subjects charactaize ivories prodnction and provide to oriental iconographies a wide circulation and adoption in western art.