A Companion to Assyria

by Eckart Frahm

  Liverani, M. (ed.) 1993. Akkad: The First World Empire, HANES 5, Padova: S.a.r.g.o.n.

  Liverani, M. (ed.) 1995. Neo‐Assyrian Geography, Quaderni di Geografia Storica 5, Rome: Università di Roma.

  Liverani, M. 2001. “The Fall of the Assyrian Empire: Ancient and Modern Interpretations,” in: S.E. Alcock et al. (eds.), Empires: Perspectives from Archaeology and History, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 374–91.

  Luckenbill, D.D. 1924. The Annals of Sennacherib, OIP 2, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

  Lundström, S. 2009. Die Königsgrüfte im Alten Palast von Assur, WVDOG 123, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

  Luukko, M. et al. (eds.) 2009. Of God(s), Trees, Kings, and Scholars: Neo‐Assyrian and Related Studies in Honour of Simo Parpola, Studia Orientalia 106, Helsinki: Finnish Oriental Society.

  Luukko, M. and Gaspa, S. 2008. “A Bibliography of Neo‐Assyrian Studies (1998–2006),” State Archives of Assyria Bulletin 17, 189–257.

  Machinist, P. 1984–85. “The Assyrians and Their Babylonian Problem,” Jahrbuch des Wissenschaftskollegs zu Berlin 1984–85, 353–64.

  Machinist, P. 1993. “Assyrians on Assyria in the First Millennium BC,” in: K. Raaflaub (ed.), Anfänge politischen Denkens in der Antike: Die nahöstlichen Kulturen und die Griechen, Schriften des Historischen Kollegs 24, München: R. Oldenbourg, 77–104.

  Machinist, P. 1997. “The Fall of Assyria in Comparative Perspective,” in: Parpola and Whiting, 1997, 165–78.

  Matthiae, P. 1999. Ninive, glanzvolle Hauptstadt Assyriens, München: Hirmer.

  Mattila, R. 2000. The King’s Magnates: A Study of the Highest Officials of the Neo‐Assyrian Empire, SAAS 11, Helsinki: The Neo‐Assyrian Text Corpus Project.

  Mattila, R. and Radner, K. 1997. “A Bibliography of Neo‐Assyrian Studies (1988–1997),” State Archives of Assyria Bulletin 11, 115–37.

  Maul, S.M. 1999. “Der assyrische König – Hüter der Weltordnung,” in: K. Watanabe (ed.), Priests and Officials in the Ancient Near East, Heidelberg: C. Winter, 201–14.

  Maul, S.M. 2000. “Die Frühlingsfeierlichkeiten in Assur,” in: A.R. George and I.L. Finkel (eds.), Wisdom, Gods and Literature: Studies in Assyriology in Honour of W.G. Lambert, Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 389–420.

  Maul, S.M. 2010. “Die Tontafelbibliothek aus dem sogenannten ‘Haus des Beschwörungspriesters,’” in: Maul and Heeßel 2010, 189–228.

  Maul, S.M. and Heeßel, N.P. (eds.) 2010. Assur‐Forschungen: Arbeiten aus der Forschungsstelle “Edition literarischer Keilschrifttexte aus Assur” der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

  May, N.N. 2015. “Administrative and Other Reforms of Sargon II and Tiglath‐pileser III,” State Archives of Assyria Bulletin 21, 79–116.

  Mayer, W. 1995. Politik und Kriegskunst der Assyrer, ALASPM 9, Münster.

  Mayer, W. 2012. Assyrien und Urartu I: Der Achte Feldzug Sargons im Jahr 714 v. Chr., AOAT 395/1, Münster: Ugarit‐Verlag.

  Meinhold, W. 2009. Ištar in Aššur: Untersuchungen eines Lokalkultes von ca. 2500 bis 614 v. Chr., AOAT 367, Münster: Ugarit‐Verlag.

  Melville, S.C. 2010. “Kings of Tabal: Politics, Competition, and Conflict in a Contested Periphery,” in: S. Richardson (ed.), Rebellions and Peripheries in the Mesopotamian World, American Oriental Series 91, Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 87–109.

  Melville, S.C. 2016. The Campaigns of Sargon II, King of Assyria, 721–705 B.C., Campaigns and Commanders Series 55, University of Oklahoma Press.

  Menzel, B. 1981. Assyrische Tempel, 2 vol., Studia Pohl Series Maior 10, Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute.

  Miglus, P.A. 1992. “Das letzte Staatsarchiv der Assyrer,” in: B. Hrouda (ed.), Von Uruk nach Tuttul: Eine Festschrift für Eva Strommenger, Munich: Profil, 135–42.

  Miglus, P.A. 2000a. “Das Thronpodest des Salmanassar III. aus Kalḫu und die damalige babylonische Politik der Assyrer,” in: R. Dittmann et al. (eds.), Variatio Delectat: Iran und der Westen – Gedenkschrift Peter Calmeyer, AOAT 272, Münster: Ugarit‐Verlag, 447–67.

  Miglus, P.A. 2000b. “Die letzten Tage von Assur und die Zeit danach,” ISIMU 3, 85–99.

  Miglus, P.A. and Mühl, S. (eds.) 2011. Between the Cultures: The Central Tigris Region from the 3rd to the 1st Millennium BC, Heidelberg: Heidelberger Orientverlag.

  Millard, A. 1976. “Assyrian Royal Names in Biblical Hebrew,” Journal of Semitic Studies 21, 9–13.

  Millard, A. 1994. The Eponyms of the Assyrian Empire 910–612 BC, SAAS 2, Helsinki: The Neo‐Assyrian Text Corpus Project.

  Mofidi‐Nasrabadi, B. 1999. Untersuchungen zu den Bestattungssitten in Mesopotamien in der ersten Hälfte des ersten Jahrtausends v. Chr., Baghdader Forschungen 23, Mainz: von Zabern.

  Morris, I. and Scheidel, W. (eds.) 2009. The Dynamics of Ancient Empires: State Power from Assyria to Byzantium, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  Müller, G.G.W. 2004. “Zur Entwicklung von Preisen und Wirtschaft in Assyrien im 7. Jh. v. Chr.,” in: H. Waetzoldt (ed.), Von Sumer nach Ebla und zurück: Festschrift für Giovanni Pettinato zum 27. September 1999 gewidmet von Freunden, Kollegen und Schülern, HSAO 9, Heidelberg: Heidelberger Orientverlag, 185–210.

  Na’aman, N. 1991. “Chronology and History in the Late Assyrian Empire (631–619 BC),” Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 81, 243–67.

  Niehr, H. 2007. Aramäischer Ahiqar, Jüdische Schriften aus hellenistisch‐römischer Zeit NF II/2, Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus.

  Novák, M. et al. (eds.) 2004. Die Außenwirkung des späthethitischen Kulturraumes: Güteraustausch – Kulturkontakt – Kulturtransfer, AOAT 323, Münster: Ugarit‐Verlag.

  Novotny, J. 2003. “Zaḫalû‐Metal for Marduk’s Paramāḫu and the Date of Assurbanipal’s E‐Prisms,” Orientalia 72, 211–15.

  Novotny, J. 2014. “‘I Did Not Alter the Site where that Temple Stood’: Thoughts on Esarhaddon’s Rebuilding of the Aššur Temple,” Journal of Cuneiform Studies 66, 91–112.

  Oates, J. 1991. “The Fall of Assyria (635–609 B.C),” in: J. Boardman (ed.), Cambridge Ancient History 3.2, 2nd edn, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 162–93.

  Oates, J. and Oates, D. 2001. Nimrud: An Assyrian Imperial City Revealed, London: British School of Archaeology in Iraq.

  Oded, B. 1979. Deportations and Deportees in the Neo‐Assyrian Empire, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert.

  Oelsner, J. 1999. “Von Assurbanipal zu Nabopolassar – das Zeugnis der Urkunden,” in: B. Böck et al. (eds.), Munuscula Mesopotamica: Festschrift für Johannes Renger, AOAT 267, Münster: Ugarit‐Verlag, 643–66.

  Onasch, H.‐U.1994. Die assyrischen Eroberungen Ägyptens, Ägypten und Altes Testament 27/1–2, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

  Orlamünde, J. and Lundström, S. 2011. Die Orthostaten Tiglath‐Pilesers I. und Assurnasirpals II. aus dem Alten Palast von Assur, WVDOG 136, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

  Otto, E. 1999. Das Deuteronomium: Politische Theologie und Rechtsreform in Juda und Assyrien, BZAW 284, Berlin/New York: De Gruyter.

  Parpola, S. 1980. “The Murderer of Sennacherib,” in: B. Alster (ed.), Death in Mesopotamia, Mesopotamia 8, Copenhagen: Akademisk, 171–82.

  Parpola, S. 1981. “Assyrian Royal Inscriptions and Neo‐Assyrian Letters,” in: Fales 1981, 117–44.

  Parpola, S. 1983. Letters from Assyrian Scholars to the Kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal, Part II, AOAT 5/2, Kevelaer and Neukirchen‐Vluyn: Butzon und Bercker, Neukirchener Verlag.

  Parpola, S. 1995. “The Construction of Dur‐Šarrukin in the Assyrian Royal Correspondence,” in: A. Caubet (ed.), Khorsabad, le palais de Sargon II, roi d’Assyrie, Paris: Louvre, 47–77.

  Parpola, S. 2008. “Cuneiform Texts from Ziyaret Tepe (Tušḫan), 2002–2003,” State Archives of Assyria Bulletin 17, 1–133.

  Parpola, S. and Porter, M. 2001. The Helsinki Atlas of the Near East in the Neo‐Assyrian Period, Casco Bay: The Casco Bay Assyriological Institute/Helsinki: The Neo‐Assyrian Text Corpus Project.

  Parpola, S. and Whiting, R.M. (eds.) 199
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  Pedersén, O. 2009. “Neo‐Assyrian Texts from Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylon: A Preliminary Report,” in: Luukko et al. 2009, 193–9.

  Pettinato, G. 1985. Semiramide, Milan: Rusconi.

  Porter, B.N. 1993. Images, Power, and Politics: Figurative Aspects of Esarhaddon’s Babylonian Policy, Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society.

  Postgate, J.N. 1985. “The Economic Structure of the Assyrian Empire,” in: M.T. Larsen, Power and Propaganda: A Symposium on Ancient Empires, Mesopotamia 7, Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag, 193–221.

  Postgate, J.N. 1993. “The Four ‘Neo‐Assyrian’ Texts from Šēḫ Ḥamad,” State Archives of Assyria Bulletin 7, 109–24.

  Postgate, J.N. 1997. “Middle‐Assyrian to Neo‐Assyrian: The Nature of the Shift,” in: Waetzold and Hauptmann 1997, 159–68.

  Postgate, J.N. 2001. “Assyrian Uniforms,” in: W.H. van Soldt (ed.), Veenhof Anniversary Volume, PIHANS 89, Leiden/Istanbul: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 373–88.

  Radner, K. 1997. “Traders in the Neo‐Assyrian Period,” in: J.G. Dercksen (ed.), Trade and Finance in Ancient Mesopotamia: Proceedings of the First MOS Symposium, PIHANS 84, Leiden/Istanbul: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 101–26.

  Radner, K. 2002. Die neuassyrischen Texte aus Tall Šēḫ Ḥamad, BATSH 6, Berlin: Dietrich Reimer.

  Radner, K. 2003a. “An Assyrian View on Medes,” in: Lanfranchi 2003, 37–64.

  Radner, K. 2003b. “Mesopotamia: The Neo‐Assyrian Period,” in: R. Westbrook (ed.), A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law, 2 vol., HOS I/72, Leiden: Brill, 883–910.

  Radner, K. 2003/04. “Salmanassar V. in den Nimrud Letters,” Archiv für Orientforschung 50, 95–104.

  Radner, K. 2004. Das mittelassyrische Tontafelarchiv von Giricano/Dunnu‐ša‐Uzibi, Subartu 14, Turnhout: Brepols.

  Radner, K. 2006. “Assyrische ṭuppi adê als Vorbild für Deuteronomium 28,20–44?,” in: J.C. Gertz et al. (eds.), Die deuteronomistischen Geschichtswerke: Redaktions‐ und religionsgeschichtliche Perspektiven zur “Deuteronomismus”‐Diskussion in Tora und Vorderen Propheten, BZAW 365, Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, 351–78.

  Radner, K. 2006–08. “Provinz. C. Assyrien,” Reallexikon der Assyriologie 11, 42–68.

  Radner, K. 2007. “Abgaben an den König von Assyrien aus dem In‐ und Ausland,” in: H. Klinkott et al. (eds.), Geschenke und Steuern, Zölle und Tribute: Antike Abgabenformen in Anspruch und Wirklichkeit, CHANE 29, Leiden/Boston, 213–30.

  Radner, K. 2008. “Esarhaddon’s Expedition from Palestine to Egypt in 671 BCE: A Trek through Negev and Sinai,” in: D. Bonatz et al. (eds.), Fundstellen: Gesammelte Schriften zur Archäologie und Geschichte Altvorderasiens ad honorem Hartmut Kühne, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 305–14.

  Radner, K. 2011. “The Assur–Nineveh–Arbela Triangle: Central Assyria in the Neo‐Assyrian Period,” in: Miglus/Mühl 2011, 321–9.

  Radner, K. 2012. “The Stele of Adad‐nērārī III and Nergal‐ēreš from Dūr‐Katlimmu (Tell Šaiḫ Ḥamad),” Altorientalische Forschungen 39, 265–77.

  Radner, K. 2014. “The Neo‐Assyrian Empire,” in: M. Gehler and R. Rollinger (eds.), Imperien und Reiche in der Weltgeschichte: Epochenübergreifende und globalhistorische Vergleiche, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 101–19.

  Reade, J.E. 1987. “Was Sennacherib a Feminist?,” in: J.‐M. Durand (ed.), La Femme dans le Proche‐Orient antique, Paris: Editions Recherche sur les Civilisations, 139–45.

  Reade, J.E. 1998. “Assyrian Eponyms, Kings and Pretenders, 648–605 BC,” Orientalia 67: 255–65.

  Reade, J.E. 2001. “More about Adiabene,” Iraq 63, 187–99.

  Renger, J. (ed.). 2011. Assur: Gott, Stadt und Land, CDOG 5, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

  Richardson, S. 2012. “The Hypercoherent Icon: Knowledge, Rationalization, and Disenchantment at Nineveh,” in: N.N. May (ed.), Iconoclasm and Text Destruction in the Ancient Near East and Beyond, OIS 8, Chicago: Oriental Institute, 231–58.

  Richardson, S. 2014. “The First ‘World Event’: Sennacherib at Jerusalem,” in: Kalimi and Richardson 2014, 433–505.

  Röllig, W. 2005. “Keilschrift versus Alphabetschrift: Überlegungen zu den epigraphs auf Keilschrifttafeln,” in: P. Bienkowski et al. (eds.), Writing and Ancient Near Eastern Society: Papers in Honor of Alan R. Millard, New York/London: T and T Clark International, 119–26.

  Rollinger, R. 2006 “The Terms ‘Assyria’ and ‘Syria’ Again,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 65, 283–287.

  Rollinger, R. 2011. “Assur, Assyrien und die klassische Überlieferung: Nachwirken, Deutungsmuster und historische Reflexion,” in: Renger 2011, 311–35.

  Russell, J.M. 1991. Sennacherib’s Palace Without Rival at Nineveh, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

  Russell, J.M. 1999. The Writing on the Wall: Studies in the Architectural Context of Late Assyrian Palace Inscriptions, MC 9, Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.

  Ryholt, K. 2004. “The Assyrian Invasion of Egypt in Egyptian Literary Tradition,” in: J.G. Dercksen, Assyria and Beyond: Studies Presented to Mogens Trolle Larsen, PIHANS, Leiden/Istanbul: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 483–510.

  Salvini, M. 2008. Corpus dei Testi Urartei, 3 vol., Rome: Istituto di Studi sulle Civiltà dell’Egeo e del Vicino Oriente – CNR.

  Šašková, K. 2010. “Esarhaddon’s Accession to the Assyrian Throne,” in: K. Šašková et al. (eds.), Shepherds of the Black‐headed People: The Royal Office vis‐à‐vis Godhead in Ancient Mesopotamia, Plzenˇ: Západocˇeská univerzita, 147–77.

  Schaudig, H. 2001. Die Inschriften Nabonids von Babylon und Kyros’ des Großen, AOAT 256, Münster: Ugarit‐Verlag.

  Schneider, A.W. and Adalı, S.F. 2014. “‘No Harvest Was Reaped’: Demographic and Climatic Factors in the Decline of the Neo‐Assyrian Empire,” Climatic Change, November 2014, DOI: 10.1007/s10584‐014‐1269‐y.

  Siddall, L. 2013. The Reign of Adad‐nīrārī III: An Historical and Ideological Analysis of an Assyrian King and His Times, CM 45, Leiden: Brill.

  Steymans, H.U. 1995. Deuteronomium 28 und die adê zur Thronfolgeregelung Asarhaddons, OBO 145, Freiburg/Göttingen: Academic Press Fribourg/Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht.

  Strobel, K. (ed.). 2011. Empires after the Empire: Anatolia, Syria and Assyria after Suppiluliuma II (ca. 1200–800/700 B.C.), Eothen 17, Vicchio: LoGisma.

  Stronach, D. 1997. “Notes on the Fall of Nineveh,” in: Parpola and Whiting 1997, 307–24.

  Streck, M. 1916. Assurbanipal und die letzten assyrischen Könige bis zum Untergang Niniveh’s, Vorderasiatische Bibliothek 7, Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs.

  Streck, M. 2002. “Der Wiederaufbau Babylons unter Asarhaddon und Assurbanipal in Briefen aus Ninive,” Altorientalische Forschungen 29, 205–33.

  Svärd, S. 2015. Power and Women in Neo‐Assyrian Palaces, SAAS 23, Helsinki: The Neo‐Assyrian Text Corpus Project.

  Tadmor, H. 1994. The Inscriptions of Tiglath‐Pileser III, King of Assyria, Jerusalem: The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

  Tadmor, H., Landsberger, B., and Parpola, S. 1989. “The Sin of Sargon and Sennacherib’s Last Will,” State Archives of Assyria Bulletin 3, 3–51.

  Tournay, R.‐J. 1998. “La stèle du roi Tukulti‐Ninurta II: Nouvelle interprétation,” Subartu IV/2, 273–8.

  Tropper, J. 1993. Die Inschriften von Zincirli, Münster: Ugarit‐Verlag.

  Ur, J. 2005. “Sennacherib’s Northern Assyrian Canals: New Insights from Satellite Imagery and Aerial Photography,” Iraq 67, 317–45.

  Van De Mieroop, M. 2011. A History of Ancient Egypt, Malden: Wiley‐Blackwell.

  Vera Chamaza, G.W. 1992. “Sargon II’s Ascent to the Throne: The Political Situation,” State Archives of Assyria Bulletin 6, 21–33.

  Vera Chamaza, G.W. 2002. Die Omnipotenz Aššurs: Entwicklungen in der Aššur‐Theologie unter den Sargoniden Sargon II., Sanherib und Asarhaddon, AOAT 295, Münster: Ugarit‐Verlag.

  Von der Osten‐Sacke
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  Waetzoldt, H. and Hauptmann, H. (eds.) 1997. Assyrien im Wandel der Zeiten, CRRAI 39 (HSAO 6), Heidelberg: Heidelberger Orientverlag.

  Walker, J.T. 2006–07. “The Legacy of Mesopotamia in Late Antique Iraq: The Christian Martyr Shrine at Melqi (Neo‐Assyrian Milqia),” ARAM: Journal of Syro‐Mesopotamian Studies 18–19, 471–96.

  Waters, M.W. 2000. A Survey of Neo‐Elamite History, SAAS 12, Helsinki: The Neo‐Assyrian Text Corpus Project.

  Weinfeld, M. 1991. “Semiramis: Her Name and Her Origin,” in: M. Cogan and I. Eph‘al (eds.), Ah Assyria …: Studies in Assyrian History and Ancient Near Eastern Historiography Presented to Hayim Tadmor, Scripta Hierosolymitana 33, Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 99–103.

  Weippert, M. 1992. “Die Feldzüge Adadneraris III. nach Syrien: Voraussetzungen, Verlauf, Folgen,” Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina‐Vereins 108, 42–67.

  West, M.L. 1997. The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth, Oxford: Clarendon Press.

  Winter, I. 1997. “Art in Empire: The Royal Image and the Visual Dimensions of Assyrian Ideology,” in: Parpola and Whiting 1997, 359–82.

  Winter, I. 2000. “Le palais imaginaire: Scale and Meaning in the Iconography of Neo‐Assyrian Cylinder Seals,” in: C. Uehlinger (ed.), Images as Media: Sources for the Cultural History of the Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean (1st Millennium BCE), OBO 175, Freiburg/Göttingen: Academic Press Fribourg/Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 51–87.

  Yamada, S. 2000. The Construction of the Assyrian Empire: A Historical Study of the Inscriptions of Shalmaneser III (859‐824 B.C.) Relating to his Campaigns in the West, CHANE 3, Leiden: Brill.

  Younger, K.L. Jr. 2002. “Recent Study on Sargon II, King of Assyria: Implications for Biblical Studies,” in: M.W. Chavalas and K.L. YoungerJr. (eds.), Mesopotamia and the Bible: Comparative Explorations, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 288–329.