Books by David Kertai
The Architecture of Late Assyrian Royal Palaces, 2015
From the OUP website: "The Late Assyrian Empire (c. 900 - 612 BCE) was the first state to rule ov... more From the OUP website: "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, Kalḫu, Dur-Sharruken, and Nineveh."
Kertai, D. and O. Nieuwenhuyse: From the Four Corners of the Earth. Studies in the Iconography and Cultures of the Ancient Near East in Honour of F.A.M. Wiggermann. Alter Orient und Altes Testament 441. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag., 2017
Journal articles by David Kertai
The Archaeology of the Riparian Region of Iraqi Kurdistan, 2022
13. This growth in activity has been accompanied by a small but steady stream of discoveries of c... more 13. This growth in activity has been accompanied by a small but steady stream of discoveries of cuneiform texts, whether from excavation or chance finds. The first of these is the discovery of inscribed decorated bricks at Satu Qala which have pointed to a previously unknown indigenous kingdom which flourished in the interregnum between the Middle Assyrian and Neo-Assyrian control of this region 14 ; both a fragment of a cuneiform tablet 15 and a fragment of an inscribed baked brick 16 from Qalat-i Dinka; a fragment of a cuneiform tablet from Gird-i Sitak 17 ; an inscribed sherd from Gird-i Rustam 18 ; and a fragment of a Neo-Assyrian tablet from Gird-i Gulak 19. Somewhat surprisingly, no Assyrian rock reliefs have yet been found in this part of Kurdistan. This is in contrast to the north of the region, with the many reliefs connected with the water engineering projects of the Sargonid kings and the relief of Tiglath-pileser III discovered in 1973 20 , and Iran, where three Assyrian rock reliefs are now known 21. Turning now to the location of our present research, the Darband-i Rania-also known as the Darband-i Ramkan-is a pass located approximately 8 km east of Rania at the point where a gap between the Kewa Rash mountains to the northwest and the Assos mountains to the southeast allows the Lower Zab to flow from the Peshdar into the Rania Plain. This location now corresponds to the northeast corner of Lake Dokan. A rock relief depicting a conquering king striding up a mountain is still just visible on a stone outcrop in the western side of the pass. This relief has been attributed to the early second millennium 22. The site of Usu Aska (Fig. 2) is located inside the pass on its southern side, at the base of Mount Assos 23 .
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