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Ziyaret Tepe : exploring the Anatolian frontier of the Assyrian Empire
Ziyaret Tepe, the ancient city of Tushan, was a provincial capital of the Assyrian Empire, in its day the greatest empire the world had ever seen. The excavations captured in this innovative book uncovered the palace of the governor, the mansions of the elite and the barracks of the rank and?le, charting the history of the empire from its expansion in the early 9th century BC to its fall three centuries years later.0The great mound of Ziyaret Tepe, with its accumulated layers rising 22 metres above the surrounding plain, is a record of thousands of years of human occupation. In the course of 18 seasons of?eldwork, both the lower town and the mound looming up over it yielded the secrets of Tu?han, today in southeast Turkey, near the border with Syria. This has always been frontier country.0Elaborate wall paintings, a hoard of luxury items burned in a cremation ritual 2,800 years ago, and a cuneiform tablet that hints at a previously unknown language are among the team?s exceptional?nds.0The story of the project is told by the specialists who dedicated years of their lives to it. Geophysicists, ceramicists, readers of cuneiform, experts in weaving, board games and Neo-Assyrian politics joined archaeologists, zooarchaeologists, archaeobotanists and many others.0But this is no dry?eld book of dusty digging. Both accessible and scholarly, it is a lively, copiously illustrated record of excavations involving the whole team, a compelling demonstration of the collaboration? the science, artistry and imaginative reconstruction? that makes modern achaeology so absorbing.
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Genocide in the Ottoman Empire
The final years of the Ottoman Empire were catastrophic ones for its non-Turkish, non-Muslim minorities. From 1913 to 1923, its rulers deported, killed, or otherwise persecuted staggering numbers of citizens in an attempt to preserve \"Turkey for the Turks,\" setting a modern precedent for how a regime can commit genocide in pursuit of political ends while largely escaping accountability. While this brutal history is most widely known in the case of the Armenian genocide, few appreciate the extent to which the Empire's Assyrian and Greek subjects suffered and died under similar policies. This comprehensive volume is the first to broadly examine the genocides of the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks in comparative fashion, analyzing the similarities and differences among them and giving crucial context to present-day calls for recognition.
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The Geography of Trade
From the mid-20th century onwards, consolidated study of the merchant archives from the Old Assyrian trading colony at Kaneš (Kültepe) has not only transformed our understanding of the social, economic and political dynamics of the Bronze Age Near East, but also overturned many preconceived notions of what constitutes pre-modern trade. Despite this disciplinary impact and archaeological investigations at Kültepe and elsewhere, our understanding of this phenomenon has remained largely text-based and therefore of limited analytical scope, both spatially and contextually. This book re-assesses the Old-Assyrian trade network in Upper Mesopotamia and Central Anatolia during the Middle Bronze Age (c. 1970 – 1700 BC) by combining in some analytical detail the archaeology (e.g. material culture, settlement data, etc.) of the region both on its own terms and via a range of spatial approaches. The author offers a comparative and spatial perspective on exchange networks and economic strategies, continuity and discontinuity of specific trade circuits and routes, and the evolution of political landscapes throughout the Near East in the Middle Bronze Age.
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From the 21st Century B.C. to the 21st Century A.D
This volume collects the proceedings of a three-day conference held in Madrid in July 2010, and it highlights the vitality of the study of late-third-millennium B.C. Mesopotamia. Workshops devoted to the Ur III period have been a feature of the Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale roughly every other year, beginning in London in 2003. In 2009, Steve Garfinkle and Manuel Molina asked the community of Neo-Sumerian scholars to convene the following year in Madrid before the Rencontre in Barcelona. The meeting had more than 50 participants and included 8 topical sessions and 27 papers. The 21 contributions included in this volume cover a broad range of topics: new texts, new interpretations, and new understandings of the language, culture, and history of the Ur III period (2112–2004 B.C.).
The present and future of Neo-Sumerian studies are important not only for the field of Assyriology but also for wider inquiries into the ancient world. The extant archives offer insight into some of the earliest cities and one of the earliest kingdoms in the historical record. The era of the Third Dynasty of Ur is also probably the best-attested century in antiquity. This imposes a responsibility on the small community of scholars who work on the Neo-Sumerian materials to make this it accessible to a broad, interdisciplinary audience in the humanities and related fields. This volume is a solid step in this direction.
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Thus Speaks Ishtar of Arbela
Thus Speaks Ishtar is a collection of essays about prophets and prophecy in the ancient Near East during the \"Neo-Assyrian Period.\" This was the time when some of Israel's greatest prophets emerged, and we also have from the same general period a number of prophetic texts found on the site of the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh. The book examines the basic idea of prophecy and how this is shaped by the way we study the subject, and it then presents a number of fresh insights on a range of prophetic topics. These include the relationship between Israelite and other forms of prophecy in Assyria and Egypt and the relationship between what prophets said and the written forms in which their words were passed on. Other topics of contemporary interest include what these prophetic texts have to say about the environment, the place of intercession in Israelite and Assyrian religion, and whether the message of the trailblazing Israelite prophets of the eighth century was basically about judgment and community ruin or about hope and community well-being.
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Year of the Sword
The Armenian genocide of 1915 has been well documented. Much less known is the Turkish genocide of the Assyrian, Chaldean and Syriac peoples, which occurred simultaneously in their ancient homelands in and around ancient Mesopotamia - now Turkey, Iran and Iraq. The advent of the First World War gave the Young Turks and the Ottoman government the opportunity to exterminate the Assyrians in a series of massacres and atrocities inflicted on a people whose culture dates back millennia and whose language, Aramaic, was spoken by Jesus. Systematic killings, looting, rape, kidnapping and deportations destroyed countless communities and created a vast refugee diaspora. As many as 300,000 Assyro-Chaldean- Syriac people were murdered and a larger number forced into exile. The Year of the Sword (Seyfo) in 1915 was preceded over millennia by other attacks on the Assyrians and has been mirrored by recent events, not least the abuses committed by Islamic State. Joseph Yacoub, whose family was murdered and dispersed, has gathered together a compelling range of eye-witness accounts and reports which cast light on this 'hidden genocide.' Passionate and yet authoritative in its research, his book reveals a little-known human and cultural tragedy. A century after the Assyrian genocide, the fate of this Christian minority hangs in the balance.
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Time and History in the Ancient Near East
In July, 2010, the International Association for Assyriology met
in Barcelona, Spain, for 5 days to deliver and listen to papers on
the theme \"Time and History in the Ancient Near East.\" This volume,
the proceedings of the conference, contains 70 of the papers read
at the 56th annual Rencontre, including the papers from several
workshop sessions on \"architecture and archaeology,\" \"early
Akkadian and its Semitic context,\" \" Hurrian language,\" \"law in the
ancient Near East,\" \"Middle Assyrian texts and studies,\" and a
variety of additional papers not directly related to the conference
theme. The photo on the back cover shows only a representative
portion of the attendees, who were warmly hosted by faculty and
students from the University of Barcelona.
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L'(an)durāru à l'époque néo-assyrienne
RésuméL’ (an)durāru , retour périodique au statut d’origine des biens et personnes aliénés par nécessité est restée une institution bien vivante jusqu’à la fin de l’empire néo-assyrien. Suivant en cela une tradition bien connue pour l’époque paléo-babylonienne, chaque avènement royal était l’occasion d’annuler certaines dettes et ventes et de faire grâce d’obligations dues au souverain. Des mesures semblables étaient d’autre part parfois décidées en cours de règne, après une conquête ou pour pallier des difficultés économiques. Les documents de la pratique démontrent la réalité de l’application de ces décrets dans tout l’empire, alors que la propagande royale mettait plutôt l’accent sur les faveurs exceptionnelles accordées à certaines catégories de la population. Abstract Andurāru , a periodic reinstatement of goods and persons, alienated because of want, to their original status remained a very living institution until the end of the neo-Assyrian empire. Following a well known tradition of the Old Babylonian period, each royal accession was an occasion to annul certain debts and sales and to abolish obligations owed to the sovereign. Similar measures were sometimes also taken through the reign after a conquest or to alleviate economic difficulties. Documents demonstrate the reality of the application of these decrees in all the empire, whereas royal propaganda put the emphasis on exceptional favours granted to certain categories of people.
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