Author: Shigeo Yamada
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
ISBN: 9789521095016
Category : Akkadian language
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A collection of essays dealing with the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Essays include historical and literary studies using various textual and pictographic sources, as well as discussions of the philological or historiographical problems of royal inscriptions with some connection to archaeology.
Author: Mattias Karlsson
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1614519684
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 541
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This volume examines the state ideology of Assyria in the Early Neo-Assyrian period (934-745 BCE) focusing on how power relations between the Mesopotamian deities, the Assyrian king, and foreign lands are described and depicted. It undertakes a close reading of delimited royal inscriptions and iconography making use of postcolonial and gender theory, and addresses such topics as royal deification, “religious imperialism”, ethnicity and empire, and gendered imagery. The important contribution of this study lies especially in its identification of patterns of ideological continuity and variation within the reigns of individual rulers, between various localities, and between the different rulers of this period, and in its discussion of the place of Early Neo-Assyrian state ideology in the overall development of Assyrian propaganda. It includes several indexed appendices, which list all primary sources, present all divine and royal epithets, and provide all of the “royal visual representations,” and incorporates numerous illustrations, such as maps, plans, and royal iconography.
Author: Giovanni Battista Lanfranchi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789521095023
Category : Academic writing
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The purpose of the papers read at the meeting held in Helsinki, Finland, in 2014, and of the relevant proceedings forming this volume, was to discuss and update the historical methodologies adopted in the past and present study of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. The title of the meeting and of this proceedings volume, "Writing Neo-Assyrian History", clearly indicates the aim of the organizers and of the participants: to submit to both specialized scholars and educated readers a comprehensive outline of the various studies about Neo-Assyrian history, and to thoroughly comment on all possible problems so as to offer a basic "manual" for further innovative studies. All this was conceived in the framework of the scientific mission of the International Research Project which produces the series State Archives of Assyria, aimed at publishing all available Neo-Assyrian texts according to a modern and commonly shared editing system. The importance of the meeting and of this volume is relevant not only because of the innovative character of most articles, but also because of the prospective methodological spin-off in other historical sectors, from Greek and Roman history to medieval, modern or even Oriental (e.g., Chinese, Japanese, Indian) history. The importance of the spin-off in other sectors of the history of Ancient Mesopotamia, and in general of the Ancient Near East, is self-evident. The volume offers a distinctive contribution to knowledge in history and historiography in general, but also in demonstrating and applying a tight connection between history, philology, archaeology and history of art, extending to the fields of ideology, politics, sociology, religion, economy and law. The sources discussed in the various articles extend from cuneiform texts of various kinds to monumental relics and archaeological findings of all kinds, studied according to the most updated Assyriological methodologies and the most advanced historical approaches.
Author: Eckart Frahm
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118325230
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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A Companion to Assyria is a collection of original essays on ancient Assyria written by key international scholars. These new scholarly contributions have substantially reshaped contemporary understanding of society and life in this ancient civilization. The only detailed up-to-date introduction providing a scholarly overview of ancient Assyria in English within the last fifty years Original essays written and edited by a team of respected Assyriology scholars from around the world An in-depth exploration of Assyrian society and life, including the latest thought on cities, art, religion, literature, economy, and technology, and political and military history
Author: Heather Baker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789521013485
Category : Akkadian language
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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This volume is a companion to The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (PNA), presenting a complete register of all individuals who are identified in the Neo-Assyrian sources by a personal name as well as by some additional designation, whether it be an office or professional title, or a status or ethnic designation. While PNA presents the biographies of individuals in alphabetical order of Assyrian personal names, the present book offers the possibility of accessing this information according to other socially meaningful criteria. It will thus prove an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the composition of Neo-Assyrian society. From the point of view of onomastic studies, the book facilitates the identification of possible "profession names" and other patterns in name-giving within specific sectors of society. The main part of the volume comprises a register of individuals listed according to office or profession, followed by a register of those bearing a gentilic or some other explicit designation of their place of origin. This main part is supplemented by a range of secondary indices which permit the reader to locate, for example, employees of specific individuals or institutions, or specialists mentioned in a particular text. The aim is to provide a comprehensive handbook for the study of Neo-Assyrian personnel.
Author: Simonetta Ponchia
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110690799
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 757
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The ancient historians considered the Assyrian empire the crucial starting point of a new political system which was adopted by later empires. In modern historical research, this problem still needs to be investigated in a global perspective that studies the development of the imperial model through ages. Abundant epigraphical and archaeological sources can be used in investigating the expansionistic tacticts, the control structures, and the administrative procedures implemented by the Assyrians through a continuous effort of adaptation to evolving situations and changing needs. The book provides an updated outline of the history of the Assyrian empire and its neighbours, a detailed analysis of the technical and ideological aspects of the construction of the Assyrian empire, and of its long-lasting legacy in the Near East and in the West. For its broad theoretical framework, which includes the reference to studies of ancient and modern empires and imperialism, the book is intended not only for the specialists of Ancient Near Eastern history, but also for a wider public of Classical and Medieval historians and of historians interested in world and global history.
Author: Ellie Bennett
Publisher: PSU Department of English
ISBN: 1646023099
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 213
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The title “Queen of the Arabs” is applied in Neo-Assyrian texts to five women from the Arabian Peninsula. These women led armies, offered tribute, and held religious roles in their communities from 738 to approximately 651 BCE. This book discusses what the title meant to the women who carried it and to the Assyrians who wrote about them. Whereas previous scholarship has considered the Queens of the Arabs in relation to the military and economic history of the Neo-Assyrian empire, Eleanor Bennett focuses on identity, using gender theory to locate points of the women’s alterity in Assyrian sources and to analyze how Assyrian cultural norms influenced the treatment of the “Queens of the Arabs.” This kind of analysis shows how Assyrian perceptions of the Queens of the Arabs, and of Arabian populations more generally, changed over time. As the Queens of the Arabs were located on the periphery of the Assyrian Empire, Bennett incorporates data from the Arabian Peninsula. The shift from an Assyrian lens to an Arabian one highlights inaccuracies in the Assyrian material, which brings into focus Assyrian misunderstandings of the region. The Arabian Peninsula also offers comparative models for the Queens of the Arabs based on Arabian cultures.
Author: Eckart Frahm
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 1541674391
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 501
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A new history of Assyria, the ancient civilization that set the model for future empires At its height in 660 BCE, the kingdom of Assyria stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. It was the first empire the world had ever seen. Here, historian Eckart Frahm tells the epic story of Assyria and its formative role in global history. Assyria’s wide-ranging conquests have long been known from the Hebrew Bible and later Greek accounts. But nearly two centuries of research now permit a rich picture of the Assyrians and their empire beyond the battlefield: their vast libraries and monumental sculptures, their elaborate trade and information networks, and the crucial role played by royal women. Although Assyria was crushed by rising powers in the late seventh century BCE, its legacy endured from the Babylonian and Persian empires to Rome and beyond. Assyria is a stunning and authoritative account of a civilization essential to understanding the ancient world and our own.
Author: Avraham Faust
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198841639
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Using one of the world's richest archaeological datasets, Avraham Faust reconstructs the outcomes of the Assyrian conquest in the southwestern region of the empire. In doing so, he sheds new light on the nature of Assyrian domination and the transformations of the diverse political and ecological zones the imperial take-over brought in its wake.
Author: J. N. Postgate
Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Land tenure in the Middle Assyrian period: A reconstruction; Some remarks on conditions in the Assyrian countryside; Royal exercise of justice under the Assyrian Empire; Princeps index in Assyria; Nomads and sedentaries in the Middle Assyrian sources; The economic structure of the Assyrian Empire; The place of the eaknu in Assyrian government; A plea for the abolition of eessimur!; Ilku and land tenure in the Middle Assyrian Kingdom: A second attempt; The columns of Kapara; First fruits and Tempel-Schuldscheine; The Middle Assyrian provinces; Middle Assyrian tablets: The instruments of bureaucracy; Employer, employee and employment in the Neo-Assyrian Empire; Ownership and exploitation of land in Assyria in the 1st millennium BC; The Assyrian Porsche?; The Land of Assur and the Yoke of Assur; Rings, torcs and bracelets; Middle Assyrian to Neo-Assyrian: The nature of the shift; Some latter-day merchants of Assur; Assyria: The Home Provinces; The Assyrian army in Zamua; Assyrian felt; Assyrian uniforms; System and style in three Near Eastern bureaucracies; Business and government at Middle Assyrian Rimah; Documents in government under the Middle Assyrian Kingdom; The invisible hierarchy: Assyrian military and civilian administration in the 8th and 7th centuries BC.
