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Title

The provincial archaeology of the Assyrian Empire / edited by John MacGinnis, Dirk Wicke and Tina Greenfield ; assisted by Adam Stone.

Publication

• Cambridge, UK : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, [2016]
• ©2016

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Additional Authors

• MacGinnis, John
• Wicke, Dirk
• Greenfield, Tina
• Stone, Adam
• McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, host institution.

Description

xviii, 390 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 29 cm.

Series Statement

McDonald Institute Monographs

Uniform Title

McDonald Institute monographs.

Subject

• Excavations (Archaeology) > Assyria > Congresses
• Assyria > Antiquities > Congresses

Note

• ".. an international conference under the title 'The Provincial Archaeology of the Assyrian Empire. For three days, 13-15 December 2012 ... The present volume is an outcome of these interactions ..."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part I. Rediscovery. The archaeological exploration of the provinces of Assyria / John MacGinnis -- Assyriology and the Ancient Near East at Cambridge / Adam Stone. Part II. Transregional Dynamics. Assyria: provincial exploitation, first time round / Nicholas Postgate -- Tokens and tablets: administrative practice on the edge of the empire: the evidence from Ziyaret Tepe (Tušhan) / Willis Monroe -- "Ordering the chaotic periphery": the enviornmental impact of the Assyrian empire on its provinces / Melissa Rosenweig -- Neo-Assyrian pebble mosaics in their architectural context / Guy Bunnens -- The social value and semiotic meaning of Neo-Assyrian Palace Ware / Alice Hunt -- Neo-Assyrian building-related operations in the provinces and beyond according to the Neo-Assyrian royal inscriptions and state archives: physics of an imperial ideology / Johanna Tudeau -- Connecting seals: seal connecting: the "FSV" group of Iron Age knobbed stamp-seals / Dirk Wicke. Part III. Core Provinces. The Eski Mosul region in the Late Assyrian period / John Curtis -- The Excavation of the College of Archaeology at Kuyunjik (ancient Nineveh) / Ali Alijuboori -- The Tell Baqrta Project in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq / Konstantinos Kopanias, Claudia Beuger, John MacGinnis, Jason Ur -- A feast for the ears: Neo-Assyrian royal architecture and acoustics at Khorsabad (ancient Dur-Šarrukin) / Aughusta McMahon -- The Land of Nineveh Archaeological Project: Assyrian settlement in the Nineveh hinterland: a view from the centre / Daniele Morandi Bonacossi -- Qasr Shemamok (ancient Kilizu), a provincial capital east of the Tigris: recent excavations and new perspectives / Olivier Rouault -- The rural landscape of the Assyrian heartland: recent results from Arbail and Kilizu provinces / Jason Ur and James Osborne. Part IV. The Near West. The aftermath of the Assyrian empire as seen from the "Red House" operation in Tell Sheikh Hamad (ancient Dur-Katlimmu) / Janoscha Kreppner -- The impact of earthquakes on Middle Assyrian Tell Shikh Hamad (ancient Dur-Katlimmu) / Hartmut Kühne -- Assyrian colonization in eastern Syria: the case of Tell Masaikh (ancient Kar-Ashurnasirpal) / Maria-Grazia Masetti Rouault -- The Iron age of the Middle Euphrates in Syria and Turkey / Tony Wilkinson and Eleanor Wilkinson. Part V. The Far West. The Neo-Assyrians in southern Israel and the archaeological evidence from Tell Jemmeh / David Ben-Shlomo -- The Assyrian kāru at Dor (ancient Du'ru) / Ayelet Gilboa and Ilan Sharon -- The Neo-Assyrian provincial administration at Tayinat (Ancient Kinalia) / Timothy Harrison -- Assyrian impact on the kingdom of Sam'al: the view from Zincirli / Virginia Herrmann and David Schloen -- Locating the sites of Assyrian deportees in ancient Israel and Southern Palestine in the light of the textual and archaeological evidence / Nadav Na'aman. Part VI. The North. Neo-Assyrian levels at Tille Höyük on the Euphrates / Stuart Blaylock -- Feeding empires: provisioning strategies at a Neo-Assyrian provincial capital at Ziyaret Tepe (ancient Tušhan) / Tina Greenfield -- Archaeological evidence for the provincial system of the Neo-Assyrian empire in Anatolia / Kemalettin Köroğlu -- The archaeology of the Assyrian period in Cilicia in the light of the Kinet Höyük excavations / Gunnar Lehmann -- The Assyrian social landscape int he Upper Tigris river valley: a view from Ziyaret Tepe (ancient Tušhan) / Timothy Matney. Part VII. The East. In the land of the highlanders: from the kingdom of Simmurum to Mazamua in the Shahrizor / Mark Altaweel, Alessio Palmisano and Simone Mühl -- Assyrianizing contexts at Hasanlu IVb? Materiality and identity in Iron II northwest Iran / Michael Danti and Megan Cifarelli -- A survey on an "Assyrian" glazed pottery type in the Xagros Mountains / Youself Hassanzadeh.

ISBN

• 9781902937748
• 1902937740

OCLC

• 946904553
• SCSB-9886376

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library