WAR, SOVEREIGNTY, ORDER AND COSMIC BALANCE:
SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS IN THE NEO-ASSYRIAN RELIEFS (884 – 727 BC)
Key Words: Ordalic War – Sovereignty – Order and Cosmic Balance – Neo-Assyrian Reliefs – Neo-Assyrian Palaces – Neo-Assyrian Empire.
ABSTRACT
Having as central concern the relationship between War, Sovereignty, Order and Cosmic Balance in the Neo-Assyrian Empire (884-727 BC), this work aims to analyze the Neo-Assyrian reliefs carved in stone slabs fixed to the walls of the Neo-Assyrian imperial palaces. These reliefs, gathered in a Documental Catalog organized by uniformity rules, will be studied based on the Image Theory and the Social Representations Theory, privileging the materiality of visual representations and their respective production context for, with this, have a proper understanding of the Narrative Groups, of the Narrative Categories and of the Narrative Typologies, as well as demarcating the Episodic Units which contributed to the production of meanings triggered by the visual representations attached to the architectural structures of the Neo-Assyrian imperial palaces, which implies, finally, in the understanding of the power of these images as images of the power.