Ludovico Portuese
Biographic Data
| ID | 6908695 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ludovico Portuese |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ludovico |
| FAMILY NAME | Portuese |
| SIGNATURE | PORTUESE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Freie Universität Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8490-352X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Text, Context, and Image: Taking Another Look at the Ubāna Tarāṣu Gesture
The gesture of the pointing finger performed by the Assyrian king and, sometimes, his officials and depicted on several monuments is commonly labelled by scholars as ubāna tarāṣu (to extend the finger and point), and variously interpreted as a gesture of homage, or prayer, or adoration to the deities. The article questions this generally accepted reading and proposes to interpret the pointing finger gesture as a simple deictic gesture, thus depri…
Fear, Concern and Care in the Northwest Palace of Ashurnasirpal II
The doors and gates of the Northwest Palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Kalhu were highly guarded by a great variety of protective figures. These are known as lamassu or šēdu (bulls and lion colossi) and apkallū (genies), which acted both as architectural elements and as overseers of persons moving in and out. Their protective role derives not only from their simple presence, but also from apotropaic objects they hold: ritual buckets, pinecone-shaped …
Life at Court: Ideology and Audience in the Late Assyrian Palace
Under His Majesty’s Protection
In Orientational Conceptual Metaphor, a system of ideas is organized in the relation and interaction in space like up-down, in-out, front-back, on-off, deep-shallow, central-peripheral. Lakoff and Johnson (1980) called this group of metaphors “Orientational,” because they give a concept a spatial orientation: in the example, “happy is up,” the concept happy is oriented up leading to English expressions like “I’m feeling up today.” Such metaphoric…
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Life at Court: Ideology and Audience in the Late Assyrian Palace
Under His Majesty’s Protection
In Orientational Conceptual Metaphor, a system of ideas is organized in the relation and interaction in space like up-down, in-out, front-back, on-off, deep-shallow, central-peripheral. Lakoff and Johnson (1980) called this group of metaphors “Orientational,” because they give a concept a spatial orientation: in the example, “happy is up,” the concept happy is oriented up leading to English expressions like “I’m feeling up today.” Such metaphoric…
Fear, Concern and Care in the Northwest Palace of Ashurnasirpal II
The doors and gates of the Northwest Palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Kalhu were highly guarded by a great variety of protective figures. These are known as lamassu or šēdu (bulls and lion colossi) and apkallū (genies), which acted both as architectural elements and as overseers of persons moving in and out. Their protective role derives not only from their simple presence, but also from apotropaic objects they hold: ritual buckets, pinecone-shaped …
Text, Context, and Image: Taking Another Look at the Ubāna Tarāṣu Gesture
The gesture of the pointing finger performed by the Assyrian king and, sometimes, his officials and depicted on several monuments is commonly labelled by scholars as ubāna tarāṣu (to extend the finger and point), and variously interpreted as a gesture of homage, or prayer, or adoration to the deities. The article questions this generally accepted reading and proposes to interpret the pointing finger gesture as a simple deictic gesture, thus depri…
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