Předmět Middle Bronze Age in the Near East (PAPVA_51)

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Cíl

The lecture will cover Mesopotamia and Syria-Palestine in the Middle Bronze Age. The issues highlighted in the lecture will include main historical and cultural phenomena. Major groups and categories of artefacts, from monumental art to small decorative objects will be presented along with architecture - temples, palaces, fortifications and dwellings - as well as funerary rites. Apart from these main topics the lectures will also provide basic information on the peoples, scripts and languages, religion and other features of the Bronze Age cultures.

Osnova

1. Amorite dynasties of the MBA in Mesopotamia - Isin-Larsa Period and Old Babylonian Periods - Amorite dynasties and states in Mesopotamia, - City state of Ashur, - Topics: Migration of Amorites; Old Babylonian state organisation; cuneiform sources for reconstruction of history; karum of Kanesh and other Old Assyrian colonies; town planning, sacral and secular architecture (e.g. temples of Tell Harmal, Shaduppum, Ashur, domestic architecture from Ur); „Babylonian” and „bent axis” temple plans; art of the time of Hammurabi.2. Syria in MBA - Reurbanisation and the emergence of new city states - Amorite states in Syria (Jamchad, Ebla, Qatna, Alalah) - Amorite dynasties in Mari: the time of Shamshiadad the I and the return of Zimri-Lim; - Topics: Amorites in archaeology of Northern Mesopotamia; nomadic chiefdoms, archive of Mari, burial customs, sacral and secular architecture (e.g. Zimri-Lim’s palace in Mari, MB palaces from Ebla, Eblaitic sacral complex); art (e.g. palace wall paintings, West-Syrian statuary, steles); Khabur ware pottery.3. Beginnings of the MBA in Levant - Transitional period of EB IV/ MB I - MB II A Period: revival of urban life and establishment of “Canaanite culture” - Topics: migration; West-Semitic settlement; dolmens and cemeteries; weapon hoards; metal objects.4. The MBA in Levant (CONTINUATION) - MB II B: further development of the “Canaanite culture” - Topics: the “Hyksos” question and relations with Egypt; fortifications, urban architecture and temples (Hazor, Tel Dan, Megiddo, Lachisz, Beth Shean, Byblos obelisks temple); burial customs; metallurgy.

Literatura

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Garant

prof. PhDr. Zdeněk Měřínský, CSc.

Vyučující

Mgr. Inna Mateiciucová, Ph.D.