Mari and the Minoans

Foster, Karen Polinger

doi:10.21827/groniek.217.35724

Groniek

2018

DOI: 10.21827/groniek.217.35724

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Mari and the Minoans

Karen Polinger Foster¹

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“…12 Not least of which include passages about Zimri-Lim's participation in a festival of Ištar (Inanna) at Mari (Ziegler 2007, pp. 55-64) and texts from the Mari archives that attest to Zimri-Lim meeting and trading with individuals from Crete while visiting Ugarit (Foster 2018).…”

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Potnia’s Participants: Considering the Gala, Assinnu, and Kurgarrû in an Aegean Context

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2024

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The wall paintings from the site of Akrotiri, Thera, are often considered to be instrumental to understanding elements of life in the Bronze Age. This is partially due to their high degree of preservation. The large-scale detail present in the scenes allows for a more detailed and nuanced understanding of the imagery that survives in glyptic art that, considered together with the surviving wall paintings, helps to better inform one’s understanding of Aegean life. Many of the iconographic elements and themes, however, remain at least partially enigmatic. This is particularly the case for Xeste 3, a cultic building at Akortiri, where the wall paintings contribute to a larger, programmatic cultic narrative. The current investigation seeks to better understand the monkeys scene from Room 2 of the first floor by deconstructing and examining each visual element via comparative analyses. They are first contextualized within the Aegean, then considered in light of Mesopotamian comparanda. This method allows for possible parallels between the monkeys from Xeste 3 and at least three priestly classes known from contemporary Mesopotamian tradition: the gala, assinnu, and kurgarrû. Each of these priestly classes belonged to the adaptable and widespread cult of Inanna, one of the most powerful and popular deities in Mesopotamia.

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Mari and the Minoans

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Potnia’s Participants: Considering the Gala, Assinnu, and Kurgarrû in an Aegean Context

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