A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean

Ethnicity in Empire 163 however, Tukulti-Ninurta sacked Babylon and removed the cult statue of the city’s god Marduk. Since gods ...

164 Geoff Emberling culture and royal ideology, and suggests that their own Assyrian identity was not strongly defined in these ...

Ethnicity in Empire 165 Figure 11.1 Relief from the palace of Sharrukin II at Dur-Sharrukin (modern Khorsabad), 717–707BC. Eunuc ...

166 Geoff Emberling The annual campaigns of the Assyrian army considerably expanded the territory of the empire. In the reign of ...

Ethnicity in Empire 167 mentioned. The relocated people were a source of labor. Most were sent to the capital cities of Assyria; ...

168 Geoff Emberling developed a distinctive style of carving stone reliefs and ivory furniture elements, and they had their own ...

Ethnicity in Empire 169 The Assyrian then said that he was sent to address the people on the wall, who would “eat their own dung ...

170 Geoff Emberling REFERENCES Alcock, Susan E., Terence N. D’Altroy, Kathleen D. Morrison, and Carla M. Sinopoli, eds. 2001. Em ...

Ethnicity in Empire 171 and Monetary Systems in the Ancient World: Means of Transmission and Cultural Interaction, 444–60. Wiesb ...

172 Geoff Emberling Liverani, Mario. 1990. Prestige and Interest: International Relations in the Near East ca. 1600–1100B.C. Pad ...

Ethnicity in Empire 173 Postgate, J. Nicholas. 2010. “The Debris of Government: Reconstructing the Middle Assyrian State Apparat ...

174 Geoff Emberling FURTHER READING Alcock, Susan E., Terence N. D’Altroy, Kathleen D. Morrison and Carla M. Sinopoli, eds. 2001 ...

CHAPTER 12 Achaemenids, Royal Power, and Persian Ethnicity Jennifer Gates-Foster Ethnicity, Cultural Identity, and Persian Imper ...

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Achaemenids, Royal Power, and Persian Ethnicity 177 aspects of life in communities throughout the empire. It is through this len ...

178 Jennifer Gates-Foster individuals of local extraction who were engaging with Persian power as well as for Persian officials ...

Achaemenids, Royal Power, and Persian Ethnicity 179 however, inherently about the management of difference (Barfield 2001), and ...

180 Jennifer Gates-Foster the Persians, and in particular the problem of the relationship between Iranian and Elamite traditions ...

Achaemenids, Royal Power, and Persian Ethnicity 181 Figure 12.1 Behistun Inscription. © German Archaeological Institute, Tehran ...

182 Jennifer Gates-Foster Elamite, with substantial numbers of Aramaic texts. Akkadian, Greek, Old Persian, and Phrygian are als ...