Reprint Edition — De Gruyter Mouton, 1918. — 184 p. First published 1968. The relationship between Assyria and Babylonia underwent various forms throughout the centuries. Although the peoples inhabiting the two regions were Semites, spoke the same language with slight dialectal differences, and worshipped the same gods with some preference for particular dieties, a peaceful...
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 to...
Zaphon, 2022. — 299 p. — (Kasion 8). Over the course of the last decade, the field of Ancient Near Eastern Studies has seen an uptick in studies devoted to the research of identity building in various cuneiform cultures. Despite these contributions the construct network character of identities remains understudied for the Ancient Near East. The conference “The King as a Nodal...
C.H. Beck, 2023. — 130 p. Dieser Band bietet eine gut lesbare Einführung in die Geschichte eines der bedeutendsten Völker des Alten Orients - der Assyrer. Er informiert über ihre Anfänge im 2. Jahrhundert v. Chr., ihre Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft, Kultur und Religion, über die Entstehung des assyrischen Großeichs, seine Herrscher und schließlich seinen Untergang in den Kämpfen...
Charles River Editors Press, 2016. — 74 p. In northern Iraq, on the banks of the Tigris River, lie the ruins of the ancient city of Aššur. This was the first capital and the most important religious center of the Assyrian Empire. Underneath the cover of sand and soil are almost six meters of dense stratigraphic layers that reveal the passage of millennia. Known today as Qal’at...
Charles River Editors Press, 2019. — 157 p. Although the Biblical accounts of the Assyrians are among the most interesting and are often corroborated with other historical sources, the Assyrians were much more than just the enemies of the Israelites and brutal thugs. A historical survey of ancient Assyrian culture reveals that although they were the supreme warriors of their...
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2020. — 594 p. — (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 114). In À l’ombre des grandes puissances de Mésopotamie. Une histoire du Sūhu à l’époque néo-assyrienne, Philippe Clancier studies the Sūhu region of the Euphrates river, on the border of Assyria and Babylonia. He reconstructs its geography by presenting the fauna and flora, and by...
Reaktion Books, 2024. — 216 p. At the height of its power around 660 BC, the Assyrian empire, centred in northern Iraq, wielded dominance from Egypt to Iran. This vast region was ruled by a series of kings who showcased their power by constructing magnificent palaces adorned with superlative sculptures depicting royal rituals, battles and hunts. Established by military might,...
Reaktion Books, 2024. — 216 p. At the height of its power around 660 BC, the Assyrian empire, centred in northern Iraq, wielded dominance from Egypt to Iran. This vast region was ruled by a series of kings who showcased their power by constructing magnificent palaces adorned with superlative sculptures depicting royal rituals, battles and hunts. Established by military might,...
Université Paris sciences et lettres, 2019. — 320 p. The combat myth, one of the most studied topics of the Mesopotamian culture, is often interpreted exclusively as a tool in disseminating the Assyrian royal ideology. However, the message transmitted may have richer and more diverse meanings. This thesis is concerned with the metaphysical dimension of the combat myth, in...
University of Pennsylvania, 2021. — 502 p. The ancient Assyrian Empire at its greatest extent in the 7th century BCE, spanned almost one million square kilometers. As the world’s first regional-scale empire, it established control over many pre-existing settlements, drawing them into the fold of not only Assyrian political dominance, but Assyrian cultural influence. In the...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2018. — 452 p. — (Ancient Magic and Divination 13). 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...
Atlanta: Lockwood Press, 2016. — 200 p. This handbook analyses the different types of shields used by soldiers in the Neo-Assyrian army and their opponents. Written, visual, and material sources are analysed to illustrate practical aspects of defensive weaponry in the ancient Near East in the first millennium B.C. The origins, use, evolution, and manufacture of shields are...
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 winners,...
University of Birmingham, 2019. — 344 p. This dissertation is a study of the literary motifs and topoi relating to rebellion in the Assyrian royal inscriptions. It is particularly concerned with the ways in which the Assyrian kings and their scribes emplotted rebellion into the narratives of the royal inscriptions in order to present these events in a favourable light. Details...
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...
Budapest: Eötvös University Press, 2012. — 334 p. — (Antiqua et Orientalia 2; Assyriologia 8/1). — ISBN 978-963-312-075-0. 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 details of the structure of the...
De Gruyter, 2025. — 379 p. — (Untersuchungen zur Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen Archäologie 17). While the study of Assyria as 'the world's first empire' has never been more popular, the events of the foundational early Neo-Assyrian period (934-746 BC) remain only poorly understood and explained. This book re-examines the historical question of Assyria's expansion,...
Lockwood Press, 2023. — 174 p. Esarhaddon, King of Assyria continues Josette Elayi's narrative journey through the lives of the kings of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Using both archaeological and textual evidence, Elayi examines the contentious circumstances surrounding Esarhaddon's accession to the throne in 681 BCE, his rebuilding of Babylon, which had been destroyed by his...
Lockwood Press, 2023. — 174 p. Esarhaddon, King of Assyria continues Josette Elayi's narrative journey through the lives of the kings of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Using both archaeological and textual evidence, Elayi examines the contentious circumstances surrounding Esarhaddon's accession to the throne in 681 BCE, his rebuilding of Babylon, which had been destroyed by his...
Perrin, 2021. — 560 p. L'Empire assyrien est le premier empire universel connu de l'Antiquité. À son apogée, son territoire s' étend de l'Iran occidental à la mer Méditerranée, de l'Anatolie au nord du désert syro-arabique. Mais la roche Tarpéienne est proche du Capitole, et il disparut brusquement en 610 avant J.-C. Reprenant le fil de l'histoire, Josette Elayi entreprend une...
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...
SBL Press, 2018. — 256 p. A critical resource for students and scholars of the ancient Near East and the Bible. Josette Elayi’s Sennacherib, King of Assyria is the only biography of Sargon II’s famous son. Elayi traces the reign of Sennacherib in context in order to illuminate more fully the life and contributions of this warlord, builder, innovator, and social reformer - a...
Venezia: Edizioni Ca' Foscari, 2015. — 311 p. — (Antichistica; 8) 0 Introduction 1 ‘Good to Eat’ Introduction to the Issue of Feeding 2 The Mesopotamian Banquet Themes and Literary Motifs 3 Eating with the King The Earthly Banquet 4 Eating with the Gods The Heavenly Banquet 5 Etiquette at the Dining Table Rules for a Banquet at Court 6 Sitting at the King’s Table Royal Food and...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 400 p. The Neo-Assyrian empire - the first large empire of the ancient world - has attracted a great deal of public attention ever since the spectacular discoveries of its impressive remains in the 19th century. The southwestern part of this empire, located in the lands of the Bible, is archaeologically speaking the best known region in the...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 400 p. The Neo-Assyrian empire - the first large empire of the ancient world - has attracted a great deal of public attention ever since the spectacular discoveries of its impressive remains in the 19th century. The southwestern part of this empire, located in the lands of the Bible, is archaeologically speaking the best known region in the...
Brill, 2020. — 250 p. — (Cuneiform Monographs 51). In Study on the Synchronistic King List from Ashur, Chen Fei conducts a full investigation into that king list, which records all the kings of Assyria and Babylonia in contemporary pairs from the 18th to the 7th century BC. The texts of all the exemplars of the Synchronistic King List are reconstructed anew by the existing...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. — 634 p. — (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World). 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...
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...
Basic Books, 2023. — 528 p. 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...
Basic Books, 2023. — 528 p. 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...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. — 528 p. 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...
University Park, Pennsylvania: Eisenbrauns, 2021. — xlviii, 571 p. — (The royal inscriptions of the neo-Assyrian period. Vol. 2). A large number and a wide variety of sources are attested for the reign of Sargon II. His inscriptions provide substantial information on both his military actions and building activities. Two chronographic texts — the Assyrian Eponym Chronicle and a...
Brill, 2007. — 406 p. — (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 27). This pioneering study wrestles with the perpetual problem of the structure of the Neo-Asssyrian society. Part I of this volume surveys all 446 Lower Stratum families in the period under review (800-600 B.C.), mentioned in 177 texts, mainly legal transactions, administrative records, court decisions, and...
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...
De Gruyter, 2018. — 459 p. This book brings together our present-day knowledge about textile terminology in the Akkadian language of the first-millennium BC. In fact, the progress in the study of the Assyrian dialect and its grammar and lexicon has shown the increasing importance of studying the language as well as cataloging and analysing the terminology of material culture in...
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 this...
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 this...
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 has...
Leuven: Peeters, 2020. — XXII, 1094 p. — (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 292). This study is devoted to the Neo-Assyrian royal household as it emerges from the available cuneiform sources. It addresses the functions as well as the conditions of life and work of the royal household personnel. It clarifies which types of officials, professionals and other employees were active...
G. Olms Verlag, 1987. — 315 p. The Assyrians, however, challenged the Hittites for the control of Hanigalbat, and that land became a puppet state between the two belligerent countries. Mitanni, also called Hanigalbat or Hani-Rabbat in Assyrian or Naharin in Egyptian texts, was a Hurrian-speaking state in northern Syria and southeast Anatolia. If the second hypothesis is...
Osprey Publishing, 2023. — 320 p. For the greater part of the period from the end of the 10th century to the 7th century BC, the Ancient Near East was dominated by the dynamic military power of Assyria. This book examines the empire that is now acknowledged as the first 'world' empire, and thus progenitor of all others. Fully illustrated in colour throughout, with photographs...
Osprey Publishing, 2023. — 320 p. For the greater part of the period from the end of the 10th century to the 7th century BC, the Ancient Near East was dominated by the dynamic military power of Assyria. This book examines the empire that is now acknowledged as the first 'world' empire, and thus progenitor of all others. Fully illustrated in colour throughout, with photographs...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2001. — 628 p. — (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 10). Steven Holloway’s work is the first monograph devoted to Neo-Assyrian religious imperialism. Neo-Assyrian religious imperialism was expressed by punitive measures such as "godnapping", the violent deportation of a vanquished foe’s divine images, but also, and this is a far...
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....
Columbia University, 2021. — 907 p. This dissertation represents an investigation into the changing nature of political power during the final 133 years of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, seeking to understand how power functioned within the Assyrian system through studying the careers of its imperial administrators. How was power distributed between the king and his officials? What...
Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 1999. — 150 p. — (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 266). 653 v. Chr. schlagt der assyrische Konig Assurbanipal den elamischen Herrscher Tepti-Humban-Inšušinak - in den assyrischen Texten Teumman genannt - bei einer Feldschlacht am Flusse Ulai1. Auf ihrem Ruckweg nach Assyrien greifen die assyrischen Truppen die Gambulaer - babylonische Verbundete der...
Walter de Gruyter, 2016. — 521 p. — (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records 10). 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...
Walter de Gruyter, 2016. — 524 p. — (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records 10). 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...
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 world...
Routledge, 2016. — 192 p. Was 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 Assyrian reliefs that fill our museums give a complete picture of the phenomenon that was Assyria? Was the contribution of this people to world culture merely an...
Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 1967. — 197 p. — (PIHANS 22). Clay tablets inscribed in cuneiform and containing documents of an economic character from the Old Assyrian period have since 1881 come in vast numbers from Anatolia. Though the site Kultepe 20 kms north-east of Kayseri was suspected to be the source of the tablets sold on the markets in Kayseri and...
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...
Laterza, 2017. — 450 p. Un impero è una formazione politico-territoriale che si assegna lo scopo di allargare incessantemente la propria frontiera, di assoggettare (per conquista diretta o per controllo indiretto) il resto del mondo, fino a far coincidere la propria estensione con quella dell'ecumene tutto. La sua 'missione' è un progetto ideale che si fonda su una teoria...
Eisenbrauns, 2017. — 340 p. This is an examination, in 30 chapters, of all aspects of the ancient Assyrian empire and its relationship to "empire theory" and the study of empires in general, explicating Assyria as the first of the genuine empires. The discussion also examines how ancient empires contribute to our understanding, despite differences, of modern empires.
Zaphon, 2023. — 476 p. — (Melammu Workshops and Monographs 9). 28 articles have been assembled to celebrate the 80th birthday of the Assyriologist Simo Parpola. In accordance with his focus of interest many contributions deal with history, culture, language, religious aspects and archaeology of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. The horizon of the festschrift is broadened by studies on...
University of Oxford, 2014. — 293 p. This thesis has attempted a reconstruction of Sennacherib’s campaign against Judah in 701. The purpose of this resconstruction has not been to reach a definitive picture of the events of 701 but rather to come to the best possible hypothesis based upon a wide study of the relevant texts. The best historical hypothesis concerning what...
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...
Carocci, 2018. — 174 p. A metà Ottocento, la riscoperta della civiltà assira e delle antiche capitali di Nimrud, Dur Sharrukin/Khorsabad e Ninive segna un momento cruciale per la storia dell'archeologia e di fatto la nascita dell'archeologia orientale. Lo scavo delle antiche colline dei siti della Mesopotamia comincia per l'appunto in Assiria, nella regione settentrionale...
Reichert, 1979. — 168 p. In the three centuries starting with the reign of Ashur-dan II (934-912 BCE), the Neo-Assyrian Empire practiced a policy of resettlement (also called "deportation" or "mass deportation") of population groups in its territories. The majority of the resettlements were done with careful planning by the government in order to strengthen the empire. For...
The University of Chicago Press, 1923. — 829 p. It is no easy task to write a history, especially one so involved as that of Assyria. Olmstead, if he has not done the task perfectly, has at any rate done it well. It has meant a tremendous amount of investigation and the reading of sources, many of them as yet untranslated. The author is one peculiarly fitted to his task both by...
Didactic Press, 2015. — 86 p. — ASIN: B00TSW7MZM Sargon the Younger, the man who formed the central object of one of the most brilliant periods of ancient Oriental history, might well boast himself a self-made man, for in spite of his boasts of the three hundred and fifty kings who ruled Assyria before him, and of his mention of the kings his fathers, it is certain that he was...
Didactic Press, 2015. — 86 p. — ASIN: B00TSW7MZM Sargon the Younger, the man who formed the central object of one of the most brilliant periods of ancient Oriental history, might well boast himself a self-made man, for in spite of his boasts of the three hundred and fifty kings who ruled Assyria before him, and of his mention of the kings his fathers, it is certain that he was...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 1970. — 277 p. Our knowledge of the Assyrian Colonies of Cappadocia is chiefly derived from the so-called "Cappadocian" tablets, cuneiform documents written in an old dialect of Assyrian, and originating from three sites in Anatolia — Kültepe, Ali§ar Hüyük and Bogazköy. The documents are private records, being the business notes, memoranda and...
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 tight...
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...
Sidestone Press, 2017. — 330 p. "Well, as for Nineveh, skipper, it was wiped out long ago. There’s not a trace of it left, and one can’t even guess where it was" (Lucian, 2nd century AD). Nineveh, the once-flourishing capital of the Assyrian Empire, has fascinated writers, travellers and historians alike since its complete annihilation by allied forces in 612 BC. It was said to...
De Gruyter, 2024. — 668 p. — (Empires through the Ages in Global Perspective). 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...
De Gruyter, 2024. — 668 p. — (Empires through the Ages in Global Perspective). 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...
American Philosophical Society, 1993. — 259 p. — (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society 208). The Assyrians have usually been characterized as the strong men of the ancient Near East, controlling their empire largely through military force, terror, and intimidation. The new interpretation of Esarhaddon's reign offered here, however, suggests that his success in dealing...
Munster: Zaphon, 2020. — 342 p. Portuese's study examines architecture, reliefs and inscriptions of Neo-Assyrian royal palaces, and their interdependences guided by the question of audience and admittance to the king: Who was admitted to the king and how was the king presented? The Assyrian king was actually less secluded in his palace than hitherto assumed by the classical...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 496 p. This book describes ten different government archives of cuneiform tablets from Assyria, using them to analyse 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...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 496 p. This book describes ten different government archives of cuneiform tablets from Assyria, using them to analyse 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...
Biblical Institute Press, 1974. — 441 p. Abstract Neo-Assyrian studies have lain so long becalmed that it is not necessary for me to defend my choice of subject, but a few words may not be out of place to define the objectives and limi tations of the study. In a sense, this is a second half to Studia Pohl, Series Maior 1, Neo-Assyrian royal grants and decrees, which contains...
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 been...
Hoepli, 2019. — 161 p. Una guida concisa e autorevole alla storia e alla cultura di una delle più suggestive civiltà antiche, l’Assiria, nel suo passaggio da città-stato a impero dall’inizio del II millennio alla fine del VII secolo a.C. su un’area che va dal Golfo Persico al Mediterraneo, dall’Asia centrale all’Egitto. L’autrice, a partire dalle scoperte archeologiche,...
The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 1998. — 493 p. In the aforementioned sources, the impressive number of over 8000 different names is attested, in at least ten different languages. More than 25,000 individuals are known from the written sources of the Neo-Assyrian period. The earliest text material included stems from the reign of Assurnaṣirpal (883-859 BC) in whose time...
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 Biblical...
Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2020. — IX, 478 S. — (Alter Orient und Altes Testament [AOAT] 466). Die vorliegende Arbeit ist in drei Teile gegliedert und folgendermaßen aufgebaut: Im ersten Teil werden im ersten Kapitel Odeds Untersuchungen so wie der damalige Forschungsstand vorgestellt und eingehend geprüft. Hierauf folgt ein Überblick über einschlägige Forschungsbeiträge, die im...
Brill, 2013. — 260 p. — (Cuneiform Monographs 45). In The Reign of Adad-nīrārī III, Luis Siddall examines the evidence and edits new inscriptions from the king’s reign to investigate the chronology, campaigns, imperial administration and royal ideology of the period. While historians have typically viewed this period as one of turmoil, imperial recession, political weakness and...
Walter de Gruyter, 2017. — 428 p. — (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records 17.1). Despite siginificant advances in annual chronology, the Old Assyrian trade fundamentally lacked a regime of time at the level of the merchant’s commercial and personal activities. In this book, Stratford sets out to recapture time through narrative, drawing on the relationship between the two...
Walter de Gruyter, 2017. — 427 p. — (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records 17.1). Despite siginificant advances in annual chronology, the Old Assyrian trade fundamentally lacked a regime of time at the level of the merchant’s commercial and personal activities. In this book, Stratford sets out to recapture time through narrative, drawing on the relationship between the two...
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 inscriptions...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2022. — 226 p. The Pax Assyriaca provides a study of the evolutionary process of ancient civilisations, stressing the complementarity between theoretical principles and the relevant historical and archaeological evidence. Taking its approach from World Systems Theory, the study focuses on the origin, development and collapse of the first, "Near...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2022. — 226 p. The Pax Assyriaca provides a study of the evolutionary process of ancient civilisations, stressing the complementarity between theoretical principles and the relevant historical and archaeological evidence. Taking its approach from World Systems Theory, the study focuses on the origin, development and collapse of the first, "Near...
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2019. — XIV, 194 p. — (Schriften zur vorderasiatischen Archäologie; 14). Johanna Tudeau offers with this book a sketch of the practice and ideology of building in Assyria based on textual evidence. The study focuses on the Assyrian royal inscriptions and state archives, two of the most comprehensive textual corpora available on the topic. The...
De Gruyter, 2024. — 296 p. — (Vigilanzkulturen / Cultures of Vigilance 10). Throughout history, many states have attempted to harness the attention of their populations for their own ends. This study argues that the Assyrian Empire in the year 672 BC is such a case. In 672 BC, Esarhaddon, King of Assyria, imposed a succession covenant (adê) on his subjects, the inhabitants of...
De Gruyter, 2024. — 296 p. Throughout history, many states have attempted to harness the attention of their populations for their own ends. This study argues that the Assyrian Empire in the year 672 BC is such a case. In 672 BC, Esarhaddon, King of Assyria, imposed a succession covenant (adê) on his subjects, the inhabitants of the Assyrian Empire. This covenant required the...
University Press of Colorado, 2019. — 320 p. Though the Neo-Assyrian Empire has largely been conceived of as the main actor in relations between its core and periphery, recent work on the empire’s peripheries has encouraged archaeologists and historians to consider dynamic models of interaction between Assyria and the polities surrounding it. Imperial Peripheries in the...
University Press of Colorado, 2019. — 320 p. Though the Neo-Assyrian Empire has largely been conceived of as the main actor in relations between its core and periphery, recent work on the empire’s peripheries has encouraged archaeologists and historians to consider dynamic models of interaction between Assyria and the polities surrounding it. Imperial Peripheries in the...
University Press of Colorado, 2019. — 320 p. Though the Neo-Assyrian Empire has largely been conceived of as the main actor in relations between its core and periphery, recent work on the empire’s peripheries has encouraged archaeologists and historians to consider dynamic models of interaction between Assyria and the polities surrounding it. Imperial Peripheries in the...
Brill, 1969. — 245 p. — (Studia Semitica Neerlandica 13). The purpose of this study is to combine the archeological and epigraphic evidence concerning the cult of the god Assur in Assur. Only from the combination of the facts resulting from the work of both the archeologist and the philologist can there eventually appear a reasonably accurate picture of this subject which may...
Routledge, 2007. — 466 p. — (Kegan Paul Library of Archaeology and History). Collected for the first time by the eminent scholar E. A. Wallis Budge, this work contains all of the written records of the early Assyrian kings, from the reign of Irishum in about B.C. 2000 to the reign of Ashur-nasir-pal, which ended in B.C. 860. The texts are presented in Assyrian with complete...
Brill, 2000. — 476 p. — (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 3). In numerous ambitious expeditions Shalmaneser III of Assyria (859-824) lay the foundation of the subsequent remarkable military advance to the West of the Neo-Assyrian empire. While systematically scrutinizing and analyzing all accounts of these western campaigns, Shigeo Yamada not only discusses the...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2000. — 467 p. — (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 3). In numerous ambitious expeditions Shalmaneser III of Assyria (859-824 BC) laid the foundation of the subsequent remarkable military advance to the west of the Neo-Assyrian empire. While systematically scrutinizing and analyzing all accounts of these western campaigns, Shigeo Yamada not...
Санкт-Петербург: Типогр. Брокгауз-Ефрон, 1904. — 143 с. Монография посвящена древней истории Асирии и Вавилонии, где приводятся исторические сведения о правителях этих государств и их участие во вгутренней и внешней политике. В работе также освещаются древние надписи, обнаруженные в этих областях и расшифрованы записи, написанные правителями эти двервних государств.
Санкт-Петербург: Типогр. Брокгауз-Ефрон, 1904. — 143 с. Пер. с 2-го доп. нем. изд. Г.Г. Генкеля Монография посвящена древней истории Асирии и Вавилонии, где приводятся исторические сведения о правителях этих государств и их участие во вгутренней и внешней политике. В работе также освещаются древние надписи, обнаруженные в этих областях и расшифрованы записи, написанные...
М.: Древлехранилище, 2008. — 258 с. — ISBN: 978-5-93646-125-5. Автор монографии – кандидат исторических наук, исследует древневосточный город через интеграцию истории, философии и психологии. В монографии древний столичный город Передней Азии – Ашшур (конец III – начало I тыс. до н. э.) раскрывается как целостный организм, во взаимосвязи его составляющих структур и динамике...
М.: Древлехранилище, 2008. — 258 с. — ISBN: 978-5-93646-125-5. Автор монографии – кандидат исторических наук, исследует древневосточный город через интеграцию истории, философии и психологии. В монографии древний столичный город Передней Азии – Ашшур (конец III – начало I тыс. до н. э.) раскрывается как целостный организм, во взаимосвязи его составляющих структур и динамике...
Ленинград: Издательство Ленинградского Государственного университета, 1949. — 152 с.
Настоящая работа является опытом построения по возможности связной картины истории развития земельных отношений в Ассирии. Для разрешения принципиальных социально-экономических вопросов истории Древнего Востока клинописные памятники Вавилонии и Ассирии представляют наиболее благодарный...
Ленинград: Издательство Ленинградского Государственного университета, 1949. — 152 с. Настоящая работа является опытом построения по возможности связной картины истории развития земельных отношений в Ассирии. Для разрешения принципиальных социально-экономических вопросов истории Древнего Востока клинописные памятники Вавилонии и Ассирии представляют наиболее благодарный материал,...
3-е издание. — М.: Типо-литогр. Т-ва И. Н. Кушнерев и К°, 1912. — 75 с.: ил. Ассирия — древнее государство в Северном Междуречье (на территории современного Ирака). Ассирия просуществовала почти две тысячи лет, начиная с XXIV века до н. э. и до её уничтожения в VII веке до н. э. (около 609 до н. э.) Мидией и Вавилонией. Новоассирийская держава (750—620 г. до н. э.) считается...
М.: Вече, 2020. — 336 с. — (Всемирная история). — ISBN 978-5-4484-1665-1. Предлагаемая работа - это попытка систематичного изложения многовековой истории Древнеассирийской державы. Возникший на месте поселения скотоводов, крохотный полис Ашшур через несколько тысячелетий превратился в громадную Новоассирийскую империю - по сути, первую империю в истории человечества. Этот...
М.: Вече, 2015. — 340 с.: илл. Предлагаемая работа - это попытка систематичного изложения многовековой истории Древнеассирийской державы. Возникший на месте поселения скотоводов, крохотный полис Ашшур через несколько тысячелетий превратился в громадную Новоассирийскую империю - по сути, первую империю в истории человечества. Этот многовековой путь оказался полон перипетий,...
М.: Ломоносовъ, 2014. — 240 с. — ISBN: 9785916781939
В книге историка и лингвиста Михаила Мочалова рассказывается, как на месте поселения скотоводов возник крохотный полис Ашшур, как он сделался важным торговым центром Древнего Востока, как превратился в государство Ассирию, которая обретала территории, вбирала в себя народы, строила дороги, послужившие спустя столетия образцом...
М.: Ломоносовъ, 2014. — 240 с. — ISBN: 9785916781939
В книге историка и лингвиста Михаила Мочалова рассказывается, как на месте поселения скотоводов возник крохотный полис Ашшур, как он сделался важным торговым центром Древнего Востока, как превратился в государство Ассирию, которая обретала территории, вбирала в себя народы, строила дороги, послужившие спустя столетия образцом...
М.: Вече, 2015. — 320 с., ил. — ISBN 978-5-4444-2456-8 Предлагаемая работа — это попытка систематичного изложения многовековой истории Древнеассирийской державы. Возникший на месте поселения скотоводов, крохотный полис Ашшур через несколько тысячелетий превратился в громадную Новоассирийскую империю — по сути, первую империю в истории человечества. Этот многовековой путь...
М.: Вече, 2015. — 320 с., ил. — (History files). — ISBN: 978-5-4444-2456-8. Предлагаемая работа — это попытка систематичного изложения многовековой истории Древнеассирийской державы. Возникший на месте поселения скотоводов, крохотный полис Ашшур через несколько тысячелетий превратился в громадную Новоассирийскую империю — по сути, первую империю в истории человечества. Этот...
М.: Вече, 2015. — 320 с.: ил. — (History files). — ISBN: 978-5-4444-2456-8. Предлагаемая работа — это попытка систематичного изложения многовековой истории Древнеассирийской державы. Возникший на месте поселения скотоводов, крохотный полис Ашшур через несколько тысячелетий превратился в громадную Новоассирийскую империю — по сути, первую империю в истории человечества. Этот...
М.: Вече, 2015. — 320 с.: ил. — (History files). — ISBN: 978-5-4444-2456-8. Предлагаемая работа — это попытка систематичного изложения многовековой истории Древнеассирийской державы. Возникший на месте поселения скотоводов, крохотный полис Ашшур через несколько тысячелетий превратился в громадную Новоассирийскую империю — по сути, первую империю в истории человечества. Этот...
Издательство «Ломоносовъ». Москва. 2014. 244 страницы. ISBN: 5916781938, 9785916781939 В книге историка и лингвиста Михаила Мочалова рассказывается, как на месте поселения скотоводов возник крохотный полис Ашшур, как он сделался важным торговым центром Древнего Востока, как превратился в государство Ассирию, которая обретала территории, вбирала в себя народы, строила дороги,...
СПб.: Издание А. Ф. Маркса, 1902. — 500 с.
Юность Ашура
Первое или Древнее Царство. - Тиглат-Фелассар
Сыны Ханаана: их передвижения. - Финикияне
Сыны Ханаана: их религия. - Учреждение жертвоприношений. - Человеческие жертвы
Соседи Ашура. - Возрождение Ассирийского царства
Салманассар II и его приеемники. - Ашур и Израиль
Второе Царство. - Осада и взятие Самарии
Гордость...
СПб.: Издание А. Ф. Маркса, 1902. — 500 с. 101 рисунок и 2 карты цветные. Юность Ашура Первое или Древнее Царство. Тиглат-Фелассар Сыны Ханаана: их передвижения. Финикияне Сыны Ханаана: их религия. Учреждение жертвоприношений. Человеческие жертвы Соседи Ашура. Возрождение Ассирийского царства Салманассар II и его приеемники. Ашур и Израиль Второе Царство. Осада и взятие Самарии...
М.: Наука, 1979. - 248 с. Книга даёт систематическое изложение событий истории Ассирии с древнейших времён вплоть до падения великой восточной державы в 605 г. до н. э. Часть I рассказывает об истории ассирийского государства, часть II – о его культуре. Книга – результат 15-летней работы автора над темой. На её страницах воссоздана социальная, политическая и культурная...
М.: Наука, 1979. — 248 с. Книга даёт систематическое изложение событий истории Ассирии с древнейших времён вплоть до падения великой восточной державы в 605 г. до н. э. Часть I рассказывает об истории ассирийского государства, часть II – о его культуре. Книга – результат 15-летней работы автора над темой. На её страницах воссоздана социальная, политическая и культурная...
М.: Главная редакция восточной литературы издательства «Наука», 1979. 247 с. с ил.
Книга дает систематическое изложение событий истории Ассирии с древнейших времен вплоть до падения великой восточной державы в 605 г. до н.э. Часть I рассказывает об истории ассирийского государства, часть II — о его культуре.
От автора.
История Ассирийского государства .
Древняя Месопотамия....
М.: Главная редакция восточной литературы издательства «Наука», 1979. — 247 с. с ил. Книга дает систематическое изложение событий истории Ассирии с древнейших времен вплоть до падения великой восточной державы в 605 г. до н.э. Часть I рассказывает об истории ассирийского государства, часть II — о его культуре. От автора. История Ассирийского государства. Древняя Месопотамия....
М.: Наука, Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1979. — 247 с.: ил. Книга дает систематическое изложение событий истории Ассирии с древнейших времен вплоть до падения великой восточной державы в 605 г. до н.э. Часть I рассказывает об истории ассирийского государства, часть II — о его культуре. Книга – результат 15-летней работы автора над темой. На её страницах воссоздана...
София: Гутенберг, 2022. — 340 с. Настоящото проучване разглежда царската власт и идеология в Ранната новоасирийска империя (934-745 г. пр. Хр.). С оглед състоянието на изследванията към деншна дата, разработването на това изследване по темата е наложително и би било приносно за изследванията върху Древния Близък Изток и старата история като цяло. Мотивите за необходимостта от...
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