Women And Power In Neo Assyrian Palaces

Author : Saana Svärd
Publisher : State Archives of Assyria Studies
ISBN 13 : 9789521013461
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Power in Neo-Assyrian Palaces written by Saana Svärd and published by State Archives of Assyria Studies. This book was released on 2015 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power in general and women's power in particular has been understood mostly in a hierarchical way in earlier research on Mesopotamian women. Hierarchical power structures were important in Mesopotamia, but other kinds of power structures existed as well. This study, which focuses on women in the palaces of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (c. 930-610 BCE), draws attention to heterarchical power relations in which women were engaged in the Neo-Assyrian palace milieu. Heterarchical power relations include power relations such as reciprocal power, resistance, and persuasion. Although earlier research has certainly been aware of women's influence in the palaces, this study makes explicit the power concepts employed in previous research and further develops them using the concept of heterarchy. The study is based on primary cuneiform sources and presents a detailed description of women in Neo-Assyrian palaces. However, it additionally shows that by applying modern theories of power to the study of ancient texts, one can gain important new insights into the dynamics of ancient society.

Author : Sherry Lou Macgregor
Publisher : State Archives of Assyria Studies
ISBN 13 : 9789521013379
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Hearth and Home written by Sherry Lou Macgregor and published by State Archives of Assyria Studies. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the impression may still linger that Assyrian women are hidden and unavailable for study, nothing could be farther from the truth. There is a rich treasure trove of textual, visual and archaeological information that gives a detailed and coherent picture of women in the temples and palaces of Assyria. This study reveals that women in Assyria were definitely in the public arena and their lives were not as circumscribed or limited as has been previously supposed. The positions they held in palaces and temples frequently required administrative abilities, business acumen and literacy. In the temples women participated in public rituals and female prophets revealed messages to heads of state. Female musicians performed at public events while foreign female musicians were popular and much sought after. Royal women had names and images displayed in public. Women in the temples and palaces of Assyria generated great respect from the king himself, his circle of advisors and Assyrian and foreign officials. They actively and noticeably participated in the "great institutions" of Assyria. This study makes an important contribution to the increasing number of publications on women in other areas of Mesopotamia and the larger ancient Mediterranean world. With indices, bibliography and 15 illustrations.

Author : Charles Halton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110705205X
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Writing of Ancient Mesopotamia written by Charles Halton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology translates and discusses texts authored by women of ancient Mesopotamia.

Author : Eckart Frahm
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118325230
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Assyria written by Eckart Frahm and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 providing a scholarly overview of ancient Assyria in English within the last fifty years Original essays written and edited by a team of respected Assyriology scholars from around the world An in-depth exploration of Assyrian society and life, including the latest thought on cities, art, religion, literature, economy, and technology, and political and military history

Author : Paul Collins
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 160606648X
Total Pages : 1 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assyrian Palace Sculptures written by Paul Collins and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Collins leads a breathtaking lion hunt in his marvellous introduction to one of the British Museum’s fiercest and most famous treasures” (Times [UK]) Between the ninth and seventh centuries BCE, the small kingdom of Assyria (present-day northern Iraq) expanded through conquest from Egypt to Iran. The relief sculptures that decorated Assyrian palaces represent the high point of Mesopotamian art of the first millennium BCE, both for their artistic quality and their vivid depictions of warfare, rituals, mythology, hunting, and other aspects of Assyrian life. Together, the sculptures constitute some of the most impressive and eloquent witnesses of the ancient Near East, their importance only increasing with the recent destruction by ISIS of many of the reliefs that remained in Iraq. Originally published by the British Museum in 2008, this book serves as a superb visual introduction to these extraordinary sculptures, showcasing a series of stunning photographs of the museum’s unrivaled collection of Assyrian reliefs. Highlighting individual panels and their often overlooked details, these images capture the majesty of Assyrian kings, their splendid courts, and protecting divinities. An introduction by Collins sets the sculptures in their cultural and art historical context, while the following chapters provide a brief history of Assyria and its royal palaces as well as an overview of the artworks’ discovery, reception, and understanding.

Author : Simo Parpola
Publisher : State Archives of Assyria
ISBN 13 : 9789521094989
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Correspondence of Assurbanipal written by Simo Parpola and published by State Archives of Assyria. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first half of Assurbanipal's long reign (668-ca. 630 BCE) was a time of peace and great prosperity and political success for Assyria. But towards the middle of his reign a serious crisis broke out in Babylonia, unleashing a long, bitter and destructive conflict between Assyria, Elam and Babylonia, which was to shake the very foundations of the Empire. Less than a year after Assurbanipal had achieved a crushing victory over Elam, annexed the country to his realm and was at the apex of his political power, his brother Samas-sumu-ukin, installed years before as a puppet king in Babylon, rebelled with the aid of Elam and the Chaldean and Aramean tribes of Babylonia. The revolt was crushed only five years later, leaving Babylon in ruins and sowing insidious rancor and hate among its citizens; the conflict with Elam went on for three more years. The present volume presents a critical edition of all currently known letters authored by Assurbanipal as king of Assyria as well as 61 letters sent to him or his agents during his reign. Most of these texts pertain to the Samas-sumu-ukin revolt and the conflict with Elam, and provide a fascinating "ringside" view to these catastrophic events, which are otherwise known only from propagandistic and tendentious royal inscriptions. Almost half of the texts have never been edited or translated before and very few of them have been translated after 1935. They constitute an invaluable source not only for the study of Assyrian history but also of the personality and psyche of the last great king of Assyria.

Author : Ellie Bennett
Publisher : PSU Department of English
ISBN 13 : 1646023099
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Queens of the Arabs During the Neo-Assyrian Period written by Ellie Bennett and published by PSU Department of English. This book was released on 2024-05-03 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title “Queen of the Arabs” is applied in Neo-Assyrian texts to five women from the Arabian Peninsula. These women led armies, offered tribute, and held religious roles in their communities from 738 to approximately 651 BCE. This book discusses what the title meant to the women who carried it and to the Assyrians who wrote about them. Whereas previous scholarship has considered the Queens of the Arabs in relation to the military and economic history of the Neo-Assyrian empire, Eleanor Bennett focuses on identity, using gender theory to locate points of the women’s alterity in Assyrian sources and to analyze how Assyrian cultural norms influenced the treatment of the “Queens of the Arabs.” This kind of analysis shows how Assyrian perceptions of the Queens of the Arabs, and of Arabian populations more generally, changed over time. As the Queens of the Arabs were located on the periphery of the Assyrian Empire, Bennett incorporates data from the Arabian Peninsula. The shift from an Assyrian lens to an Arabian one highlights inaccuracies in the Assyrian material, which brings into focus Assyrian misunderstandings of the region. The Arabian Peninsula also offers comparative models for the Queens of the Arabs based on Arabian cultures.

Author : Marten Stol
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 150150021X
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in the Ancient Near East written by Marten Stol and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-08-08 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in the Ancient Near East offers a lucid account of the daily life of women in Mesopotamia from the third millennium BCE until the beginning of the Hellenistic period. The book systematically presents the lives of women emerging from the available cuneiform material and discusses modern scholarly opinion. Stol’s book is the first full-scale treatment of the history of women in the Ancient Near East.

Author : Simonetta Ponchia
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110690799
Total Pages : 757 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Neo-Assyrian Empire written by Simonetta Ponchia and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 ages. Abundant epigraphical and archaeological sources can be used in investigating the expansionistic tacticts, the control structures, and the administrative procedures implemented by the Assyrians through a continuous effort of adaptation to evolving situations and changing needs. The book provides an updated outline of the history of the Assyrian empire and its neighbours, a detailed analysis of the technical and ideological aspects of the construction of the Assyrian empire, and of its long-lasting legacy in the Near East and in the West. For its broad theoretical framework, which includes the reference to studies of ancient and modern empires and imperialism, the book is intended not only for the specialists of Ancient Near Eastern history, but also for a wider public of Classical and Medieval historians and of historians interested in world and global history.

Author : Mattias Karlsson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 161451691X
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Relations of Power in Early Neo-Assyrian State Ideology written by Mattias Karlsson and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 iconography making use of postcolonial and gender theory, and addresses such topics as royal deification, “religious imperialism”, ethnicity and empire, and gendered imagery. The important contribution of this study lies especially in its identification of patterns of ideological continuity and variation within the reigns of individual rulers, between various localities, and between the different rulers of this period, and in its discussion of the place of Early Neo-Assyrian state ideology in the overall development of Assyrian propaganda. It includes several indexed appendices, which list all primary sources, present all divine and royal epithets, and provide all of the “royal visual representations,” and incorporates numerous illustrations, such as maps, plans, and royal iconography.