Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 297 p. The relief slabs that decorated the palaces of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, which emphasized military conquest and royal prowess, have traditionally been understood as statements of imperial propaganda that glorified the Assyrian king. In this book, Mehmet-Ali Ataç argues that the reliefs hold a deeper meaning that was addressed primarily...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2018. — 452 p. Francesca Rochberg has for more than thirty-five years been a leading figure in the study of ancient science. Her foundational insights on the concepts of "science", "canon, "celestial divination", "knowledge", "gods, and "nature" in cuneiform cultures have demanded continual contemplation on the tenets and assumptions that underlie the...
Brill Academic Pub, 2012. — 663 p. — (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 61). In L'art du siège néo-assyrien, Fabrice De Backer investigates the people, materials, tools, machines, and tactics employed during the first millenium B.C. by the Neo-Assyrians to take and defend fortified cities. The story of besieged people, along with their customs, treatment by the...
Budapest: Eötvös University Press, 2012. — 334 p. — (Antiqua et Orientalia 2; Assyriologia 8/1). ISBN: 978-963-312-075-0. ISSN: 0209-8067. ISSN: 2063-1634. Assyriologists and archaeologists have long been interested in the study of the history of the Assyrian army. Despite this interest in the topic and our increasing knowledge about the military history of Assyria and the...
Budapest: Eötvös University Press, 2012. — 271 p. — (Antiqua et Orientalia 3; Assyriologia 8/2). ISBN: 978-963-312-076-7. ISSN: 0209-8067. ISSN: 2063-1634. One of the most important chapters in the military history of Assyria and the Near East is the development of the cavalry as an independent arm of the army. Although the art of horse riding was known as early as the...
SBL Press, 2017. — 310 p. Josette Elayi examines the life of warlord and megalomaniac, King Sargon II of Assyria. Elayi focuses on the political, economic, social, and military events that unfolded during his reign. This new biography of Sargon addresses important questions, including what was his precise role in the disappearance of the kingdom of Israel; how did Sargon II...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. — 634 p. — (Blackwell companions to the ancient world). — ISBN: 978-1-4443-3593-4. 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...
Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 2008. — 290 p. Old Assyrian Bibliography of Paul Garelli (Cécile Michel). Le souvenir de mon père (Catherine Garelli). A Group of Metal Vessels from Karum Kültepe/Kanes (Kutlu Emre). A Hittite God from Kültepe (Fikri Kulakoglu). Material Culture and the Middle Ground in the Old Assyrian Colony Period (Stephen Lumsden). The...
Eisenbrauns, 2012. — 267 p. — (Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period). The Royal Inscriptions of Sennacherib, King of Assyria (704–681 BC), Part 1 (Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period 3/1) provides reliable, up-to-date editions of thirty-eight historical inscriptions of Sennacherib. The texts edited in RINAP 3/1, which comprise approximately a sixth of the...
University of Toronto Press, 2002. — 425 p. In this, the seventh volume to be published by the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Project, A. Kirk Grayson presents the texts of the royal inscriptions from the earlier phase of the Neo-Assyrian period, a time in which the Assyrian kings campaigned as far as the Mediterranean and came into direct contact with biblical lands. In...
University of Toronto Press, 1996. — 265 p. In this, the seventh volume to be published by the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Project, A. Kirk Grayson presents the texts of the royal inscriptions from the earlier phase of the Neo-Assyrian period, a time in which the Assyrian kings campaigned as far as the Mediterranean and came into direct contact with biblical lands. In...
University of Toronto Press, 2002. — 355 p. A collection of the texts of inscriptions the originals of which are now scattered in museums throughout the world. Provides commentary, bibliography, transliteration from the cuneiform, and English translation from the Sumerian or Abkadian. Each text is complete, and is collated against the original whenever possible. Where a text...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2015. - 248 p. - (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 78). In Palace Ware Across the Neo-Assyrian Imperial Landscape, Alice Hunt investigates the social and symbolic meaning of Palace Ware by its cultural audience in the Neo-Assyrian central and annexed provinces, and the unincorporated territories, including buffer zones and vassal states....
Walter de Gruyter, 2016. 524 p. 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...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 326 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–872318–9. The Late Assyrian Empire (c.900–612 BCE) was the first state to rule the major centres of the Middle East. The Assyrian court inhabited some of the most monumental palaces of its time. The Architecture of Late Assyrian Royal Palaces is the first book to provide an in-depth analysis of Late Assyrian palatial...
Routledge & Kegan Paul PLC, 1963. — 189 p. As Assyria merely a more brutal, more uncivilized and less interesting offshoot of the culture created by Sumerians and Babylonians in Southern Mesopotamia at the dawn of history? Do the countless Assyrian reliefs that fill our museums give a complete picture of the phenomenon that was Assyria? Was the contribution of this people to...
Eisenbrauns, 2011. — 352 p. — (Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period). The Royal Inscription of Esarhaddon, King of Assyria (680–669 BC) is the inaugural volume of the Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period Project. The volume provides reliable, up-to-date editions of all of the known royal inscriptions of Esarhaddon, a son of Sennacherib who ruled Assyria for...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2016. — 320 p. Backed by an unparalleled military force, Sargon II outwitted and outfought powerful competitors to extend Assyrian territory and secure his throne. As Sarah C. Melville shows through a detailed analysis of each of his campaigns, the king used his army not just to conquer but also to ensure regional security, manage his empire’s...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2016. — 320 p. Backed by an unparalleled military force, Sargon II outwitted and outfought powerful competitors to extend Assyrian territory and secure his throne. As Sarah C. Melville shows through a detailed analysis of each of his campaigns, the king used his army not just to conquer but also to ensure regional security, manage his empire’s...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2016. — 320 p. Backed by an unparalleled military force, Sargon II outwitted and outfought powerful competitors to extend Assyrian territory and secure his throne. As Sarah C. Melville shows through a detailed analysis of each of his campaigns, the king used his army not just to conquer but also to ensure regional security, manage his empire’s...
Helsinki University Press, 1988. — 123 p. — (State Archives of Assyria Series). The practice of imposing loyalty oaths on Assyrian citizens is only attested from the reign of Sennacherib on; however, since dynastic struggles had become a serious and recurrent problem in Assyrian internal politics long before that reign, earlier treaties of this type may well have existed.
Helsinki University Press, 1997. — 109 p. — (State Archives of Assyria). This critical edition of the Neo-Assyrian prophecy corpus furnishes a detailed introduction that discusses the identity of the prophets, the structure of the texts, the date and historical context of the individual oracles, and questions relating to the nature of Assyrian prophecy. These prophecies have...
Helsinki University Press, 1987. — 262 p. — (State Archives of Assyria Ser, Vol 1). The Correspondence of Sargon II The excavations carried out in the palace area of Nineveh between 1850 and 1905 brought to light about 6,000 archival cuneiform texts, about half of which are letters belonging to the royal correspondence of Assyria. Chronologically and topically this epistolary...
De Gruyter, 2024. — 668 p. The ancient historians considered the Assyrian empire the crucial starting point of a new political system that was adopted by later empires. In modern historical research, this problem still needs to be investigated from a global perspective that studies the development of the imperial model through the ages. Abundant epigraphical and archaeological...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 496 p. This book describes ten different government archives of cuneiform tablets from Assyria, using them to analyze the social and economic character of the Middle Assyrian state, as well as the roles and practices of writing. The tablets, many of which have not been edited or translated, were excavated at the capital, Assur, and in the...
Oxbow Books, 2007. — 376 p. This book brings together a selection of twenty-eight previously disparate articles by Nicholas Postgate that represent some thirty years of engagement with the nature of Assyrian society and government. Most are broadly synthetic and deal with general issues; they are a tremendous body of work, and this will be an invaluable collection for everyone...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 144 p. Assyria was one of the most influential kingdoms of the Ancient Near East. In this Very Short Introduction , Karen Radner sketches the history of Assyria from city state to empire, from the early 2nd millennium BC to the end of the 7th century BC. Since the archaeological rediscovery of Assyria in the mid-19th century, its cities have...
London: Fisher Unwin, 1905. — 450 p. This 1887 text, while tracing the rise and fall of Assyria, also sheds light on other nations of the ancient Near East. This book is the middle of three the author wrote as part of "The Story of Nations" series, the other two being "Chaldea" and "Media". In an engaging, informal style she outlines what was known or surmised about Assyria -an...
Prague: e-artnow, 2018. — 520 p. Assyria was a major Mesopotamian kingdom and empire of the ancient Near East and the Levant. It existed as a state from perhaps as early as the 25th century BC in the form of the Assur city-state, until its collapse between 612 BC and 609 BC. This book will introduce you with great Assyrian emperors and their conquests of Anatolia, Ancient Iran,...
Acheron Press, 2011. — 244 p. Robert William Rogers' classic history of the Ancient empire of Assyria. The Assyrians formed a deadly war machine that carved out an empire in Mesopotamia, one of the first in recorded history. An understanding of ancient history isn’t complete without an understanding of the history of Assyria. Illustrated to enhance the reading experience.
University of Chicago Press, 1992. — 342 p. Best known today from biblical accounts of his exploits and ignominious end, the Assyrian king Sennacherib (704-681 B.C.) was once the ruler of all western Asia. In his capital at Nineveh, in what is now northern Iraq, he built what he called the "Palace without Rival". Though only scattered traces of this magnificent structure are...
Eisenbrauns, 1999. — 352 p. It is too often forgotten that every Assyrian "historical" inscription functioned in a very specific context. This context influenced its content and the way in which it was perceived by ancient viewers and readers. Russell's goal is to address the reconstruction of the context of these inscriptions in order to elucidate their original impact. In the...
B.T. Batsford and G.P. Putnams, 1965. — 116 p. For over 2000 years one of the greatest of human achievements, the civilisation of Babylonia and Assyria, lay buried and almost forgotten beneath the soil of the land we now know as Iraq (earlier called Mesopotamia). There remained of it only certain accounts, of doubtful reliability, in Greek literature, together with some...
Brill, 2013. — 260 p. In The Reign of Adad-nrr III , Luis Siddall examines and re-evaluates the records, events and representations of the Assyrian king who ruled from 810-783 BCE. Luis Robert Siddall , Ph. D. (2011), SOAS, the University of London, is a History Master at the Sydney Church of England Grammar School. He has published articles in scholarly journals on Assyrian...
Eisenbrauns, 2011. — 248 p. The Royal Inscriptions of Tiglath-pileser III (744–727 BC) and Shalmaneser V (726–722 BC), Kings of Assyria (Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period 1) carries on where the Assyrian Periods sub-series of the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia (RIM) Project ended. The volume provides reliable, up-to-date editions of seventy-three royal...
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