Building in Assyria

Titel: Building in Assyria : a Philological Perspective
Verfasser:
Veröffentlicht: Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2019
Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (209 pages)
Format: E-Book
Sprache: Englisch
Schriftenreihe/
mehrbändiges Werk:
Schriften zur Vorderasiatischen Archäologie ; v. 14
Schlagworte:
Andere Ausgaben: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe: Tudeau, Johanna. Building in Assyria : A Philological Perspective. - Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, ©2019
ISBN: 9783447199421 ; 3447199423 ; 9783447113366
Bemerkung: ittû (ESIR), kupru/kupīru (ESIR.ḪAD₂.A), qīru, sīru
Includes bibliographical references and index
Zusammenfassung: 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...