Neo-Assyrian sources in context : thematic studies of texts, history, and culture / edited by Shigeo Yamada.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yamada, Shigeo (Archaeologist), editor.

Series:

State archives of Assyria studies ; 1235-1032 v. 28.

Publications of the Foundation for Finnish Assyriological Research ; 1798-7431 no. 22.

State archives of Assyria studies, 1235-1032 ; volume XXVIII

Publications of the Foundation for Finnish Assyriological Research, 1798-7431 ; no. 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cuneiform inscriptions--Congresses.

Cuneiform inscriptions.

Akkadian language--Texts--Congresses.

Akkadian language.

Akkadian language--Texts.

Assyro-Babylonian literature--Congresses.

Assyro-Babylonian literature.

Assyria--History--Congresses.

Assyria.

Middle East--Assyria.

Assyro-Babylonian literature--History and criticism.

Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian.

Assyria--Archival resources.

Assyria--History.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 267 pages: illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Helsinki : Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 2018.

Summary:

Since the 1980s, projects such as the State Archives of Assyria have made great strides in the philological study of Neo-Assyrian inscriptional sources, producing text editions and hand-copies of administrative and legal texts, letters, religious and literary works, and royal and private commemorative inscriptions with a high standard of accuracy. And yet, nearly thirty years later, we are only beginning to scratch the surface of what these texts have to offer. This volume advances the mission of the State Archives of Assyria project by bringing together fourteen essays that analyze the cultural production of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.

Contents:

The Military Role of the Highest Officials, Magnates and Governors : Assyrian Royal Inscriptions versus Archival and Literary Sources / Raija Mattila

Ulluba and its Surroundings : Tiglath-pileser III's Province Organization Facing the Urartian Border / Shigeo Yamada

How to Implement Safe and Secret Lines of Communication Using Iron Age Technology : Evidence from a Letter to a God and a Letter to a King / Andreas Fuchs

Tracing the Neo-Elamite Kingdom of Zamin in Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Sources / Greta Van Buylaere

The Hunt for Nabû-bēl-šumāti of the Sealand : Searching for the Details in Epistolary Sources / Sanae Ito

Revisiting the Identities of the Four Foreigners Represented on Ashurbanipal Relief BM ME 124945-6 : Unravelling the Mystery of an Unrecorded Event / Jamie Novotny and Chikako E. Watanabe

Women in Neo-Assyrian Temples / Saana Svärd

Last Emperor or Crown Prince Forever? Aššur-uballiṭ II of Assyria according to Archival Sources / Karen Radner

Different Sources, Different Kings? The Picture of the Neo-Assyrian King in Inscriptions, Letters and Literary Texts / Sebastian Fink

Anonymous Neo-Assyrian Denunciations in a Wider Context / Mikko Luukko

Mountains as Heroic Space in the Reign of Sargon II / Silvie Zamazalová

Lost in the Tigris : The Trials and Tribulations in Editing the Royal Inscriptions of Sargon II of Assyria / Grant Frame

Use of Archaeological Data for Investigating the Itineraries of Assyrian Military Campaigns / Shuichi Hasegawa

Late Neo-Assyrian Building Histories : Tradition, Ideology, and Historical Reality / Jamie Novotny.

Notes:

Papers were originally presented at a seminar at the University of Tsukuba and the Tsukuba International Congress Center, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, December 2014.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789521095016

9521095016

OCLC:

1086078557

Publisher Number:

99983599372