Once an illiterate Christian community suppressed by its Muslim neighbors, the Mesopotamian population in Persia benefitted from the American missionaries establishing schools and hospitals that helped their culture and language flourish in the late 1800s. Their survival as a pe…
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The Assyrians of the early first millennium B.C. decorated their palaces with finely carved ivory and had storerooms piled high with the material collected as tribute and booty. Some of these ivories appear to have been carved within Assyria and conform to the imagery seen in th…
This thesis describes the social practice of music as it is represented in images from the late Neo-Assyrian period (883–648 BC), and then considers how images of music may contribute new understanding to the study of ancient art. Musical instruments of the period include chordo…
The Assyrian capitals of Nineveh, Nimrud, Khorsabad, and Ashur were the most important cities of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. The Assyrians regarded the territory surrounding these cities as a land that belonged to their chief god Ashur. Historical sources indicate that they devoted…
This dissertation examines Assyrian and Hebrew military conquest accounts utilizing comparative historiography. Assyrian historiography has been vigorously studied in the last decade. Royal inscriptions were examined for Assyriological historiographic techniques. Hebrew conquest…
The Assyrian empire emerged from a foggy period of Mesopotamian history, which neither texts nor archaeology have illuminated. Prior to that Dark Age at the turn of the first millennium, the Middle Assyrian kingdom controlled provinces in north Syria southeast Turkey, the region…