2014 2014-12-17 10.17192/meta.2014.3.3146 urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0003-2014-45-31463 keine Angabe Nabonidus, King of Babylon It may seem anomalous to devote this column, which should contain the portrait of someone who contributed to the issue's main topic, to the last Neo-Babylonian king, having at disposal a considerable number of renowned scholars, explorers, philologists, and archaeologists who could well have deserved this attention: Pietro Della Valle, Carsten Niebuhr, Georg Friedrich Grotefend, Paul-Émile Botta, Austen Henry Layard, Robert Koldewey, and Ernest Renan are just some of the many possible illustrious candidates.There is basically one reason for the choice of Nabonidus: he is one of the very few characters involved with cultural heritage as both agent and object. As agent, he has been considered the first archaeologist ever, and—even if his description as "archaeologist" may be extreme—his use of the past for ideological purposes is undeniable; as object, he—or rather his acts, attitudes, and dispositions—were reinterpreted and transmitted to modern times through different literary testimonies. Nabonidus Archaeology Ancient Near East in Modern Culture Biblical and Parabiblical Literature Neo-Babylonian Dynasty Greek Historians

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2018-01-31 urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0003-2014-45-31463 It may seem anomalous to devote this column, which should contain the portrait of someone who contributed to the issue's main topic, to the last Neo-Babylonian king, having at disposal a considerable number of renowned scholars, explorers, philologists, and archaeologists who could well have deserved this attention: Pietro Della Valle, Carsten Niebuhr, Georg Friedrich Grotefend, Paul-Émile Botta, Austen Henry Layard, Robert Koldewey, and Ernest Renan are just some of the many possible illustrious candidates.There is basically one reason for the choice of Nabonidus: he is one of the very few characters involved with cultural heritage as both agent and object. As agent, he has been considered the first archaeologist ever, and—even if his description as "archaeologist" may be extreme—his use of the past for ideological purposes is undeniable; as object, he—or rather his acts, attitudes, and dispositions—were reinterpreted and transmitted to modern times through different literary testimonies. https://doi.org/10.17192/meta.2014.3.3146 2014-12-17 article Nabonidus Giulia Francesca Grassi Grassi, Giulia Francesca Archaeology Ancient Near East in Modern Culture English 2014 Biblical and Parabiblical Literature Universitätsbibliothek Marburg Publikationsserver der Universitätsbibliothek Marburg https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/2014/45/3146/3146.png Vol 3 (2014) application/pdf 2014-12-17 urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0003-2014-454 Cultural Heritage 2196-629X 2013 Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS) Middle East - Topics + Arguments Periodical General history of Asia; Middle East https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/cover.png Deutschhausstraße 9, 35037 Marburg Marburg Philipps-Universität Marburg 2714728-9 urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-00030 3 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/2014/45/cover.png 2014 PeriodicalPart https://doi.org/10.17192/meta.2014.3.45 Neo-Babylonian Dynasty Greek Historians Nabonidus, King of Babylon 2014-12-17 application/pdf

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