Pillars, Palimpsests, and Princely Practices: Translating the past in Sultanate Delhi

Flood, Finbarr Barry

doi:10.1086/resv43n1ms20167592

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“…4. For a farther-flung but informative example of a similar phenomenon, see Flood 2003). The public nature of these construction events mattered because it maintained the effectiveness of monuments through the articulation of mythologies of the state (Harmansah 2013, ch.…”

Section: Architectural Reuse In and Beyond Egyptian Royal Ideologymentioning

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Out of Ruins: Contextualizing an Ancient Egyptian Spectacle of Architectural Reuse

Silva¹

2023

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Architectural reuse was common in ancient Egypt. Modern interpretations of this practice, particularly in royal contexts, usually ascribe it either a practical or ideological function, only rarely considering it possible that different motivations were involved. This type of approach is particularly true for the reuse of Old Kingdom blocks by the Middle Kingdom king Amenemhat I in his pyramid at Lisht, a case often classified as solely utilitarian. However, an approach that prioritizes not only the ancient Egyptian worldview and royal ideology, but also how this case of reuse fits into cross-cultural considerations of monumentality, demonstrates the necessity to look at this practice more holistically. This study focuses in particular on the possibility that the transportation of reused materials by Amenemhat I was a spectacle of construction used to showcase the king's legitimacy and authority at the start of a new dynasty.

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Section: Architectural Reuse In and Beyond Egyptian Royal Ideologymentioning

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Out of Ruins: Contextualizing an Ancient Egyptian Spectacle of Architectural Reuse

Silva¹

2023

CAJ

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“…The term palimpsest was first adapted to architecture during the 20th century by archaeologists and architectural historians to discuss ancient and medieval buildings with evident traces of reconstructions or restorations (Giovannoni 1935;Coolidge 1943), and it is now employed by scholars studying different regions of the world (Flood 2003;Necipoğlu 2008;Cantatore 2000;Trachtenberg 2010). Since the 1980s, the use of the term has expanded to include landscape architecture (Corboz 1983;Marot 2003), history of cities (Adams 1994), museum buildings (Frampton 2009), and projects concerned with the renewal of industrial complexes.…”

Section: A Global Approach To the Architectural Palimpsestmentioning

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Building beyond the Temple: Sacred Centers and Living Communities in Medieval Central India

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Pillars, Palimpsests, and Princely Practices: Translating the past in Sultanate Delhi

Cited by 13 publications

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Out of Ruins: Contextualizing an Ancient Egyptian Spectacle of Architectural Reuse

Out of Ruins: Contextualizing an Ancient Egyptian Spectacle of Architectural Reuse

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Building beyond the Temple: Sacred Centers and Living Communities in Medieval Central India

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