Has argued that Kār-Tukultı̄-Ninurta (modern Tulul ul ʿAqar, 3 km upstream from Assur) probably did not represent a transferral of the Assyrian capital away from Assur, and that its construction commenced probably right at the beginning of…
In a seminal work, Jan Assmann strongly remarks how «the great achievement of polytheism is the articulation of a common semantic universe» that, in turn, makes the names of deities translatable (J.