Mythopoeïa

Jérôme Pace

• Hardcover | Frans | State Archives of Assyria Studies | nr. 27
• Objet d'étude fascinant mais difficile d'appréhension, le mythe définit les visions du monde et les identités des sociétés anciennes. Présentant une a... Lees meer

The King's Magnates

Raija Mattila

• Paperback | Engels | State Archives of Assyria Studies | nr. 11
• This study documents the king's highest officials with the aim of uncovering their roles in the administration of the Empire. The contributions that t... Lees meer

Writing Neo-Assyrian History

• Paperback | Engels | State Archives of Assyria Studies | nr. 29
• The purpose of the papers read at the meeting held in Helsinki, Finland, in 2014, and of the relevant proceedings forming this volume, was to discuss ... Lees meer

From the Nile to the Tigris

Mattias Karlsson

• Paperback | Engels | State Archives of Assyria Studies
• Egypt and Mesopotamia, two cradles of civilization, repeatedly came into contact with each other in antiquity. Interaction between Africa and Mesopota... Lees meer

The Sumerian Sacred Marriage in the Light of Comparative Evidence

Pirjo Lapinkivi

• Paperback | Engels | State Archives of Assyria Studies | nr. 15
• The primary purpose of this study is to increase understanding of Sumerian sacred marriage by approaching it from a comparative perspective. More gene... Lees meer

Aramaic Loanwords in Neo-Assyrian 911-612 B.C.

Zack Cherry

• Paperback | Engels | State Archives of Assyria Studies
• This study identifies and analyzes Aramaic loanwords occurring in Neo-Assyrian texts between 911 and 612 B.C. As two Semitic languages, Neo-Assyrian a... Lees meer

The Overturned Boat

Amar Annus

• Paperback | Engels | State Archives of Assyria Studies | nr. 24
• The Adapa myth is a literary work of ancient Mesopotamia with different versions in Sumerian and Akkadian. According to the Adapa myth, the sage and c... Lees meer

The Scourge of God

Selim Adali

• Paperback | Engels | State Archives of Assyria Studies | nr. 20
• Who were the Umman-manda? This is a question that has vexed Assyriologists since the early days of the discipline, particularly because the question h... Lees meer

Grammatical Variation in Neo-Assyrian

Mikko Luukko

• Paperback | Engels | State Archives of Assyria Studies | nr. 16
• Variation is a prerequisite of change ...without synchronic variation, change would not have a launching pad." Thus says Raimo Anttila in his Historic... Lees meer

The Role of Naqia / Zakutu in Sargonid Politics

Sarah Melville

• Paperback | Engels | State Archives of Assyria Studies | nr. 9
• There are more sources for Naqia/Zakutu, the mother of Esarhaddon and grandmother of Assurbanipal, than for all other Sargonid royal women combined. T... Lees meer

Secrecy and the Gods

Alan Lenzi

• Paperback | Engels | State Archives of Assyria Studies | nr. 19
• Secrecy and the Gods is a comparative mythological study of the human reception and treatment of divine secret knowledge in ancient Mesopotamia and bi... Lees meer

Die Neuassyrischen Privatrechtsurkunden

Karen Radner

• Paperback | Engels | State Archives of Assyria Studies | nr. 6
• There are almost 2000 private legal texts spanning the years from ca. 850 B.C.E. to 600 B.C.E. from Assyria. While these texts have been studied for t... Lees meer

References to Prophecy in Neo-Assyrian Sources

Martti Nissinen

• Paperback | Engels | State Archives of Assyria Studies | nr. 7
• This book is a companion volume to SAA 9, Assyrian Prophecies, by Simo Parpola. While SAA 9 presents and discusses the corpus of Neo-Assyrian propheti... Lees meer

Beyond Hearth and Home

Sherry MacGregor

• Paperback | Engels | State Archives of Assyria Studies | nr. 21
• 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... Lees meer

Women and Power in Neo-Assyrian Palaces

Saana Svärd

• Paperback | Engels | State Archives of Assyria Studies | nr. 23
• Power in general and women's power in particular has been understood mostly in a hierarchical way in earlier research on Mesopotamian women. Hierarchi... Lees meer

A Sketch of Neo-Assyrian Grammar

Jaakko Anttila

• Paperback | Engels | State Archives of Assyria Studies | nr. 13
• The most recent monographic account of Neo-Assyrian grammar was published in 1912. Since that time a great deal of progress has been made in interpret... Lees meer