Building in Assyria a Philological Perspective
Johanna Tudeau offers with this book a sketch of the practice and ideology of building in Assyria based on textual evidence. The study focuses on the Assyrian royal inscriptions and state archives, two of the most comprehensive textual corpora available on the topic. The temporal and spatial framewo...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Wiesbaden
Harrassowitz Verlag
2019, 2019
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| Series: | Schriften zur Vorderasiatischen Archäologie
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Johanna Tudeau offers with this book a sketch of the practice and ideology of building in Assyria based on textual evidence. The study focuses on the Assyrian royal inscriptions and state archives, two of the most comprehensive textual corpora available on the topic. The temporal and spatial framework is necessarily broad, from the rise to the fall of Assyria, from one end of the empire to the other. This stands in contrast with a targeted terminological approach: architectural keywords structure the chapters and these follow the stages of the building process. The findings come together in a chapter devoted to the modern significance of ancient realities, where grounds for the investigation and interpretation of space are proposed to serve philologists and archaeologists alike, hopefully facilitating the exchange between disciplines |
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| Item Description: | ittû (ESIR), kupru/kupīru (ESIR.ḪAD₂.A), qīru, sīru |
| Physical Description: | 209 pages |
| ISBN: | 3447113367 3447199423 9783447113366 9783447199421 |