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<span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Dear Friends and Colleagues,</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">We are pleased to announce the publication of “<i>The Ancient Throne: The Mediterranean, Near East, and Beyond, from the 3rd Millennium BCE to the 14th Century CE”</i>, co-edited by Dana Brostowsky Gilboa
and me</span><span class="gmaildefault"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#444444">
</span></span><span class="gmaildefault"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">and </span></span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">published by Austrian Academy of Sciences Press (</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><a href="https://austriaca.at/8556-7?frames=yes" target="_blank"><span style="color:black">https://austriaca.at/8556-7?frames=yes</span></a><span style="color:black">).</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">The volume features studies focusing on specific thrones known from historical texts, artistic depictions, or excavations, or that offer an overview of the role of thrones from as early as ancient Mesopotamia
in the 3rd millennium BCE to as late as Iran and China in the 14th century CE. Its diverse articles all present thrones as a meaningful category of material culture, one that may inspire both inter-cultural and intra-cultural insights on how types of chairs
may embody or induce notions of kingship and a range of concepts pertaining to the religious, ideological, and social spheres.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">We are so very grateful to the authors for their wonderful contributions, to colleagues who provided much-appreciated anonymous peer-reviews, to ICAANE for hosting the Ancient Throne Workshop at Vienna
in 2016, and to our publishers, the Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. Finally, we express our gratitude to our first academic home, the Mandel Scholion Interdisciplinary Research Center in the Humanities and Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
for their ongoing support of the publication. </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Please see the table of contents below, and please also see more information by the Austrian Academy of Sciences
<a href="https://austriaca.at/8556-7?frames=yes" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563C1">here</span></a>.
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<span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">With many best wishes on behalf of both Dana Brostowsky Gilboa and me,
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<span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Liat Naeh</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="gmaildefault"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#444444">*****</span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">The Ancient Throne: The Mediterranean, Near East, and Beyond, from the 3rd Millennium BCE to the 14th Century CE. Proceedings of the Workshop held at the 10th ICAANE in Vienna, April 2016</span></i><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">,
eds. L. Naeh and D. Brostowsky Gilboa. International Series OREA 14. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Table of Contents:</span></u></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Preface by the Series Editor
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<span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Liat Naeh – Dana Brostowsky Gilboa: Preface</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Liat Naeh: In the Presence of the Ancient Throne: An Introduction</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Claudia E. Suter: The Play with Throne Designs in Third Millennium BCE Mesopotamia</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Caroline J. Tully – Sam Crooks: Enthroned Upon Mountains: Constructions of Power in the Aegean Bronze Age</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Christina Ruth Johnson: To Sit in Splendour: The Ivory Throne as an Agent of Identity in Tomb 79 from Salamis, Cyprus</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Yael Young: Throne Among the Gods: A Short Study of the Throne in Archaic Greek Iconography</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Aaron Koller: Thrones and Crowns: On the Regalia of the West Semitic Monarchy</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Elizabeth Simpson: The Throne of King Midas</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Niccolò Manassero: The Ivory Thrones from Parthian Nisa: Furniture Design between Philhellenism and Iranian Revival</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Sheila Blair: Women Enthroned: From Mongol to Muslim</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Allegra Iafrate: Solomon as Kosmokratōr and the Fashioning of his Mechanical Throne from a Comparative Perspective</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Index</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#0B5394">Liat Naeh, PhD</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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