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...
Brill Academic Pub, 2024. — 270 p. — (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 137). In Prophet, Intermediary, King: The Dynamics of Mediation in the Biblical World and Old Babylonian Mari, Julie B. Deluty investigates the central role of parties mediating prophetic communication with kings. Her book offers an innovative dimension to the social landscape of prophecy.
Cambridge University Press, 2004. - 360 p. Ancient Mesopotamia is famous for its kings. Sargon of Agade is said to have built the first empire. Hammurabi of Babylon showed off his authority in a collection of standard laws. The shadow of later Assyrian and Babylonian monarchs darkens the prospects of Israel and Judah in the biblical tradition. Karl Marx’s “oriental despotism”...
Routledge, 1994. — 392 p. The roots of our modern world lie in the civilization of Mesopotamia, which saw the development of the first urban society and the invention of writing. The cuneiform texts reveal the technological and social innovations of Sumer and Babylonia as surprisingly modern, and the influence of this fascinating culture was felt throughout the Near East. Early...
Routledge, 1994. — 392 p. The roots of our modern world lie in the civilization of Mesopotamia, which saw the development of the first urban society and the invention of writing. The cuneiform texts reveal the technological and social innovations of Sumer and Babylonia as surprisingly modern, and the influence of this fascinating culture was felt throughout the Near East. Early...
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...
Brill, 2018. — 968 p. Mesopotamian Medicine and Magic: Studies in Honour of Markham J. Geller is a thematically focused collection of 34 brand-new essays bringing to light a representative selection of the rich and varied scientific and technical knowledge produced chiefly by the cuneiform cultures. The contributions concentrate mainly on Mesopotamian scholarly descriptions and...
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...
Eisenbrauns, 2015. — 632 p. In July, 2011, the International Association for Assyriology met in Rome, Italy, for 5 days to deliver and listen to papers on the theme "Tradition and Innovation in the Ancient Near East". This volume, the proceedings of the conference, contains more than 40 of the papers read at the 57th annual Rencontre, including 3 plenary lectures/papers, many...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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, 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...
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...
Revised and updated edition. — London, New York: Routledge, 2002. — 336 p. — ISBN: 0-415-25104-4. Mesopotamia was one of the earliest regions to produce writing, literature and the fine arts, as well as being one of the first areas to construct states. This comprehensive and detailed survey of the region's prehistory and protohistory shows how these fascinating developments...
University of Texas Press, 1992. — 193 p. — ISBN10: 0292707940, 13 978-0292707948. Ancient Mesopotamia was a rich, varied and highly complex culture whose achievements included the invention of writing and the development of sophisticated urban society. This book offers an introductory guide to the beliefs and customs of the ancient Mesopotamians, as revealed in their art and...
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...