Water for Assyria

by Kühne, Hartmut

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Full title :Water for Assyria / edited by Hartmut Kühne.

Summary

Lying within the range of 600 to 200 mm annual precipitation, the core region of Assyria (the ?heartland?) extends from the piedmont zone of the Zagros to the capital of Ashur. Scholars have maintained over decennia that water has never been of great economic significance for Assyria and that the Assyrians were unexperienced in hydraulic technology and water management. The Assyrian kings, foremost king Sennacherib (704?681 BC), were assumed to have constructed the water works of Nimrud and Nineveh for their royal gardens, pleasure, and prestige only. Assyrian water management outside the core region was unknown. 0The discovery of a supra-regional water guidance system in NE Syria in the 1980s, a comprehensive reevaluation of the Assyrian cuneiform sources in 2000, the application of remote sensing in landscape archaeology, and recent field work in the Kurdistan region of Iraq have generated a new assessment of Assyrian water skills and management. They demonstrate that the Assyrians had a long tradition of water engineering. Applying innovative technology like aqueducts, they invested in a large number of Grand Projects during the Middle and Neo-Assyrian Empires (c. 1350?612 BC), improving agricultural output, supply of drinking water for men and animals alike, growth of population, and transportation of goods and people. Presenting the results of ongoing projects, the authors of this volume offer insights into this exciting multi-disciplinary research field.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2018

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Harrassowitz verlag
Place of Publication:Wiesbaden
Language:eng
Publication Date:2018

Notes

Ponències presentades al 10è International Congress for the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE) celebrat a la Austrian Academy of Science in Vienna, del 25 al 29 d'abril de 2016.

The Physical Object

Description:194 pàgines : : i·llustracions (algunes en color) ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9783447109895, 3447109890
oclc:on1139473502

Water for Assyria : introduction / Hartmut Kühne -- A vital resource in prehistory : water and settlement during the Pottery Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods : a preliminary analysis of the Eastern Upper Tigris basin area / Marco Iamoni -- The king and the canal : development of a literary image in Assyrian Royal Inscriptions / Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault -- Construction and operation of canals in Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian sources / John MacGinnis -- Water for Arbail and Nimrud / Jason Ur -- Water for Nineveh : the Nineveh irrigation system in the regional context of the 'Assyrian Triangle' : a first Geoarchaeological assessment / Daniele Morandi Bonacossi -- Irrigation in the Shahrizor Plain : the potential of archaeological and geoarchaeological archives to reconstruct ancient water management / Simone Mühl, Manfred Rösch, Diary Ali Muhammed, Annette Kadereit, Bakhtiar Qader Aziz -- Politics and water management at the lower Ḫābūr (Syria) in the Middle Assyrian Period and beyond : a new appraisal / Hartmut Kühne.