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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.

Architecture --- Building --- Antiquities. --- Assyria --- Middle East --- Antiquities --- Architecture - Assyria --- Building - Assyria --- Assyria - Antiquities --- Middle East - Assyria --- בנייה --- אדריכלות --- אשור --- עתיקות

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Caves --- Antiquities --- Assyria --- Tigris River Valley --- Antiquities. --- Bırkleyn (Turkey) --- Caverns --- Grottoes --- Rock shelters --- Rockshelters --- Landforms --- Speleology --- Tigris Valley --- Caves - Turkey - Antiquities --- Assyria - Antiquities --- Tigris River Valley - Antiquities

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Late Assyrian --- History of Asia --- palaces --- Assyro-Babylonian --- Private houses --- antiquities [object genre] --- Assyria, Babylonia, Mesopotamia --- Palaces --- Architecture, Assyro-Babylonian --- Assyria --- Antiquities --- Palaces - Assyria --- Assyria - Antiquities --- palaces [official residences]

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Portuese's study examines architecture, reliefs and inscriptions of Neo-Assyrian royal palaces, and their interdependences guided by the question of audience and admittance to the king: Who was admitted to the king and how was the king presented ? The Assyrian king was actually less secluded in his palace than hitherto assumed by the classical tradition originating from Ctesias, and followed by modern scholars. It is clear that his relatively public appearances were regarded as extraordinary events which interrupted his daily royal activities. All the strategies that apparently hamper access to the royal court should be considered as highlighting the extreme privilege of being admitted to the palace and not as ways of emphasising the seclusion of the king. Various circumstances, indeed, led a number of persons to visit the palace and meet the king and, even though this was occasional, each event had to be perceived by the visitor(s) as exceptional. Thus, the whole protocol procedure together with the architectural obstructions were strategically used both to protect the king but also to make the event exceptional. Whatever their complexity, images, texts, and court activities offer an exhibition of kingship. Images, texts, and court activities inform and educate: by presenting the Assyrian perception of the world and the role of the king in human events, reliefs, inscriptions and any activity become a ?silent education? in that they raise awareness, influence or inspire consciousness, generate respect, and encourage a mental and physical attitude of obedience and deference. Through the omnipresence of the king and the apotropaic values of some images, together with the royal word, and the performance of rituals and ceremonies they convey blessings; and the global harmony creates an atmosphere of order, rationality and grace.

Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian --- Assyria --- Kings and rulers --- Court and courtiers --- Antiquities --- Antiquities. --- Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian. --- Courts and courtiers. --- Kings and rulers. --- Middle East --- Court and courtiers. --- Assyria - Kings and rulers --- Assyria - Court and courtiers --- Assyria - Antiquities

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Who were the Umman-manda? This is a question that has vexed Assyriologists since the early days of the discipline, particularly because the question has different answers at different times and in different places: Hurrians, Elamites, Medes, Cimmerians, Scythians—all have been cast as the Umman-manda by various peoples at various times.With intractable questions such as this, it is useful on occasion to recapitulate all the evidence that applies to the question, to integrate new evidence that has appeared since the last recapitulation, and to see if a new synthesis of the evidence is possible. In this work, Adalı does precisely that. After collecting all the textual references to the Umman-manda, the author analyzes the writings, surveys the eytmologies proposed for the term Umman-manda over the years, and finally offers a new proposal for the etymology. He then investigates the nonliterary texts that mention the Umman-manda, seeking clues to their origins and ethnic makeup, finding, as others have, that the evidence is inconclusive and sometimes even contradictory.Turning to the literary texts as a source for the Umman-manda, the author finds more fertile ground. Leaving aside the potential historical kernel of the Cuthaean Legend of Naram-Sin because the available evidence does not speak to this issue, Adalı turns his investigation to the Umman-manda as a literary topos. By investigating the motifs and terminology used in the Cuthaean Legend and comparing them with similar usage in other literary works, the author is able to establish a leitmotif for the Umman-manda and then identify this leitmotif in the royal inscriptions of Assyrian and Babylonian kings.While the question of who the original Umman-manda were remains a mystery, Adalı’s work offers new insights and a new outlook on the significance of the Umman-manda in the first millennium and particularly on the question of why the Umman-manda meant different things to different people at different times while, nevertheless, not all enemies were referred to as “Umman-Manda.” It provides a new departure point for further investigations of the Umman-manda as well as for the use of literary allusions in both Assyro-Babylonian literature and royal inscriptions.

Akkadian language --- Akkadian philology. --- Akkadien (Langue) --- Philologie akkadienne --- Terms and phrases. --- Texts. --- Mots et locutions --- Textes --- Assyro-Babylonian literature --- Legends --- History and criticism. --- Assyria --- Iraq --- Antiquities. --- History. --- Akkadian philology --- Terms and phrases --- History and criticism --- Antiquities --- History --- Akkadian language - Terms and phrases --- Akkadian language - Texts --- Assyro-Babylonian literature - History and criticism --- Legends - Middle East --- Assyria - Antiquities --- Iraq - History