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Relations of Power in Early Neo-Assyrian State Ideology

By Mattias Karlsson

Book information

Publisher
Walter de Gruyter
Year
2016
ISBN
1614517444, 9781614517443
ISSN
2161-4415
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7833192 bytes)
Series
Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records 10
Pages
508\524
Topic
History
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2016-03-27 14:36:03
Исторические дисциплины;Всемирная история;История

Description

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.

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