Unit Book A16

The Courtyard of the Tupkish Palace (Version 2, Beta release)

Introduction

Conclusion

Giorgio Buccellati – May 2025

    The A16 digital book has served over the years as a key point of reference for the application of the UGR system. It was the “inaugural” volume in the sense that it was the first one to be considered complete, however much in a beta stage. As it turned, in the course of the last fifteen years we “inaugurated” this book many times over. It was to serve as a model for the series of digital unit books.

    In other words, I used A16 as the testing ground within the framework of the introductory websites I was working on, which are now the Grammar and the Introduction to the Urkesh Global Record.

    This was also, for me, a testing ground in “writing” a website: there had to be a continuous, attentive, and daunting effort at keeping these (and other) websites in sync. It was very much unchartered territory, something structurally different from writing a book to be printed. The concept of interplanarity became alive with a host of unexpected twists and turns.

    The process entailed

    not as main author, but as series editor

    fear, scepticism

    conclusion in intro

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