RT Article
T1 Names of Walls, Gates, and Palatial Structures of Assyrian Royal Cities: Contents, Styles, and Ideology
JF Orient
VO 55
SP 87
OP 104
A1 Yamada, Shigeo 1959-
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1778964583
AB This paper deals with the names given to the city walls, city gates, and palatial structures in Assyrian capital cities, Assur, Kalhu, Dur-Šarrukin, and Nineveh, in the NeoAssyrian period. These names comprised popular names, which were supposedly used daily, and ceremonial names, which were given for ceremonial-ideological purposes. The names were formulated differently in various cities and in different periods, reflecting the change of historical circumstances and contemporary political-theological ideologies. The naming of the architectural works in later Assyria represented the increasing imperialistic pride of Assyrian kings about their world dominion, claiming the prominence of the capital as the navel of the world in political, economic, and religious senses. In this way, they particularly challenged the traditional Mesopotamian cosmic order, in the center of which Babylon and its god Marduk had been placed.
K1 Assyrian Empire
K1 Mesopotamian theology
K1 capitals
K1 names of city gates and palaces
K1 Royal Ideology
DO 10.5356/orient.55.87