Sennacherib's "Palace Without Rival" at Nineveh - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sennacherib's "Palace Without Rival" at Nineveh write by John Malcolm Russell. This book was released on 1991. Sennacherib's "Palace Without Rival" at Nineveh available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Best known today from biblical accounts of his exploits and ignominious end, the Assyrian king Sennacherib (704-681 B.C.) was once the ruler of all western Asia. In his capital at Nineveh, in what is now northern Iraq, he built what he called the "Palace without Rival." Though only scattered traces of this magnificent structure are visible today, contemporary written descriptions and surviving wall reliefs permit a remarkably detailed reconstruction of the appearance and significance of the palace. An art historian trained in ancient Near East philology, archaeology, and history, John Malcolm Russell marshals these resources to investigate the meaning and political function of the palace of Sennacherib. He contends that the meaning of the monument cannot be found in images or texts alone; nor can these be divorced from architectural context. Thus his study combines discussions of the context of inscriptions in Sennacherib's palace with reconstructions of its physical appearance and analyses of the principles by which the subjects of Sennacherib's reliefs were organized to express meaning. Many of the illustrations are published here for the first time, notably drawings of palace reliefs made by nineteenth-century excavators and photographs taken in the course of the author's own excavations at Nineveh.
The Final Sack of Nineveh
The Final Sack of Nineveh - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Final Sack of Nineveh write by John Malcolm Russell. This book was released on 1998-01-01. The Final Sack of Nineveh available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In his palace at Nineveh, Assyrian King Sennacherib immortalized his campaign against Jerusalem with a series of sculptures. Russell presents photographs and drawings of the sculptures, and proposes standards for the preservation of artifacts.
Palace and Temple
Palace and Temple - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Palace and Temple write by Clifford Mark McCormick. This book was released on 2012-10-24. Palace and Temple available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a critical study of the role played by architecture and texts in promoting political and religious ideologies in the ancient world. It explains a palace as an element in royal propaganda seeking to influence social concepts about kingship, and a text about a temple as influencing social concepts about the relationship between God and human beings. Applying the methods of analysis developed in built environment studies, the author interprets the palace and temple building programs of Sennacherib, King of Assyria, and Solomon, King of Israel. The physical evidence for the palace and the verbal evidence for the temple are explained as presenting communicative icons intended to influence contemporary political and religious concepts. The volume concludes with innovative interpretations of the contributions of architectural and verbal icons to religious and political reform.
The Annals of Sennacherib
The Annals of Sennacherib - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Annals of Sennacherib write by Sennacherib (Assyrisches Reich, König). This book was released on 1924. The Annals of Sennacherib available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Royal Inscriptions of Sennacherib, King of Assyria (704-681 BC)
The Royal Inscriptions of Sennacherib, King of Assyria (704-681 BC) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Royal Inscriptions of Sennacherib, King of Assyria (704-681 BC) write by Sanherib (Assyrien, König). This book was released on 2012. The Royal Inscriptions of Sennacherib, King of Assyria (704-681 BC) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Royal Inscriptions of Sennacherib, King of Assyria (704-681 BC), Part 2 (Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period 3/2) provides reliable, up-to-date editions of 195 texts of Sennacherib, as well as 26 other late Neo-Assyrian inscriptions that might belong to this king and 2 inscriptions of his family (including one of his wives, Tashmetu-sharrat). The volume contains historical inscriptions on bull and lion colossi from Nineveh, rock reliefs, stone horizontal prisms, and clay cylinders and prisms from other cities under Sennacherib's authority (especially Ashur and Tarbisu); epigraphs on reliefs; and inscriptions on bricks, threshold slabs, door sockets, wall panels, stone blocks, beads, metal plating (including door bands); and drafts and copies of historical and building inscriptions written on clay tablets. Each text edition (with its English translation) is supplied with a brief introduction containing general information, a catalogue containing basic information about all exemplars, a commentary containing further technical information and notes, and a comprehensive bibliography. RINAP 3/2 also includes: (1) a general introduction to the corpus of inscriptions and Sennacherib's numerous building activities in Assyria (especially construction at Ashur); (2) several photographs of objects inscribed with texts of Sennacherib; (3) indices of museum and excavation numbers and selected publications; and (4) indices of proper names (Personal Names; Geographic, Ethnic, and Tribal Names; Divine, Planet, and Star Names; Gate, Palace, Temple, and Wall Names; and Object Names). The RINAP Project is under the direction of G. Frame (University of Pennsylvania) and is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
