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The Architecture of Late Assyrian Royal Palaces

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

Where previous research has steadily focused at the duality between private and non-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 inside the broader framework of textual and art-historical sources, and argues that architectural changes were guided by a want to accommodate ever larger groups as the empire grew in size.

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