Godless People and Sunless Skies

This paper is a study of descriptions foreign conquest the Mesopotamian centre in two Sumerian–Akkadian bilingual texts concerning Tukulti-Ninurta I and Nebuchadnezzar I. Both present these deviant spaces resulting from conquests terms peripheralization centre. Having established similarities presentation topoi texts, then analyses different contexts which are placed to explore how their significance differs. In Bilingual, Assyria by its enemies would create space at centre, god Ashur must therefore prevent it. Babylonia has already become space. The abandonment land gods destruction serves as necessary transitional stage transformation into correct