The Architecture of Late Assyrian Royal Palaces

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-19-872318-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 195 mm x 253 mm, Gewicht: 832 g

The Late Assyrian Empire (c. 900 - 612 BCE) was the first state to rule over the major centres of the Middle East, and the Late Assyrian court inhabited some of the most monumental palaces of its time. The Architecture of Late Assyrian Royal Palaces is the first volume to provide an in-depth analysis of Late Assyrian palatial architecture, offering a general introduction to all key royal palaces in the major centres of the empire: Assur, KalHu, Dur-Sharruken, and Nineveh.

Where previous research has often focused on the duality between public and private realms, this volume redefines the cultural principles governing these palaces and proposes a new historical framework, analysing the spatial organization of the palace community which placed the king front and centre. It brings together the architecture of such palaces as currently understood within the broader framework of textual and art-historical sources, and argues that architectural changes were guided by a need to accommodate ever larger groups as the empire grew in size.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kertai, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen Palastbauten, Burgen, Festungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Klassisch (Griechisch & Römisch)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Acknowledgements

- List of Plates and Figures

- Plans by Author

- Abbreviations

- 1: Introduction

- 2: Ashurnasirpal II (883-859)

- 3: Shalmaneser III (858-824)

- 4: Adad-nerari III (810-783), Tiglath-pileser III (744-727) and the Interceding Decades

- 5: Sargon II (722-705)

- 6: Sennacherib (704-681)

- 7: Esarhaddon (681-669)

- 8: Ashurbanipal (668-631)

- 9: Palatial Spaces

- 10: Palatial Suites

- 11: 250 Years of Late Assyrian Palaces

- Appendix

- Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

David Kertai is a research associate at University College London.