A bit hilani (Akkadian) was a type of palace or large public building in the late 2^nd and early 1^st millennia BC. They had a colonnaded front porch, as described in 1 Kings 7:1-11 in reference to Solomon’s palace in Jerusalem.

The ziggurat of Assyrian cities was less prominent than ziggurats in Babylonian cities.

Starting in the Old Assyrian Period, the Assyrian king chose a limmu (aka eponymous magistrate) for each year. This distributed authority, allowing the limmu to perform certain cultic acts. Records listing each year and its limmu are critical for reconstructing Assyrian chronology. The limmuship rotated amidst Assyrian noble families and sometimes even the king himself. and in which king participated. The limmu tradition continued through the period of decline (~1,050-934 BC) separating the Middle and the Neo-Assyrian Period; only limmuships from ~892-~648 BC have been reconstructed.

Assyrian style: beard; hairod; garments. More incised, not highly carved. Poepl in processions.

Syrian style: broader face, Phoenician and Egyptizing styles in arts and culture were emulated and imitated onthe Meditteranean coast in Phoenicia.

SYrian more solidslightly unbalanced, cutout work.

Egyptianizing wig, classene, palm, cut out.

Royal inscriptions… first across, then between two panels

Epigraph … a succinct little “comic book balloon” describing the events of the depicted scene.

Identifying features of an Assyrian king in reliefs are the fez, jewelry and braided beard and hair.