Ricerc@Sapienza

The contribution summaries the main characteristics of art history through an overview of the history of the discipline and uses the case study of Ebla to comment on a specific aspect of Eblaic society pertaining to the creation of the image of kingship in the mature Early Syrian period.

While in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia polymaterism was not such a diffused practice, at Ebla, the use to compose figures with different materials, in large, as well as in miniature size images reached a peak, in the skills manifested in the assemblage of the materials, in the wealth of the raw materials employed and in the variety of objects produced.