A Companion to Assyria

Content: Notes on Contributors viii    Acknowledgments xiii    Introduction 1 Eckart Frahm    Part I Geography and History 11    1 Physical and Cultural Landscapes of Assyria 13 Jason Ur    2    Assyria    in the Third Millennium bce 36 Lauren Ristvet    3 The Old Assyrian Period (20th   18th Century bce) 57 Klaas R. Veenhof    4 Economy, Society, and Daily Life in the Old Assyrian Period 80 Cecile Michel    5 The Transition Period (17th to 15th Century bce) 108 Shigeo Yamada    6 The Middle Assyrian Period (14th to 11th Century bce) 117 Stefan Jakob    7 Economy, Society, and Daily Life in the Middle Assyrian Period 143 Stefan Jakob    8 The Neo  -Assyrian Period (ca. 1000   609 bce) 161 Eckart Frahm    9 Economy, Society, and Daily Life in the Neo  -Assyrian Period 209 Karen Radner    10 Post  -Imperial Assyria 229 Stefan R. Hauser    Part II The Fringes of Empire: Assyria and its Neighbors 247    11 Assyria and the North: Anatolia 249 Andreas Fuchs    12 Assyria and the East: Western Iran and Elam 259 Andreas Fuchs    13 Assyria and the West: Syria and the Levant 268 Ariel M. Bagg    14 Assyria and the Far West: The Aegean World 275 Robert Rollinger    15 Assyria and the South: Babylonia 286 Eckart Frahm    16 Assyria and the Far South: The Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf 299 Eckart Frahm    Part III Elements of Assyrian Civilization 311    17 Languages and Writing Systems in Assyria 313 Mikko Luukko and Greta Van Buylaere    18 Assyrian Religion 336 Stefan M. Maul    19 Assyrian Literature 359 Alasdair Livingstone    20 Assyrian Scholarship and Scribal Culture in Ashur 368 Nils P. Heessel    21 Assyrian Scholarship and Scribal Culture in Kalhu and Nineveh 378 Jeanette C. Fincke    22 Assyrian Legal Traditions 398 Frederick Mario Fales    23 Assyrian Cities and Architecture 423 John M. Russell    24 Assyrian Art 453 John M. Russell    25 Assyrian Technology 511 Ariel M. Bagg    26 Assyrian Warfare 522 Stephanie Dalley    27 Thoughts on the Assyrian Empire and Assyrian Kingship 534 Mario Liverani    Part IV The Afterlife and Rediscovery of Assyria 547    28 Assyria in Late Babylonian Sources 549 Paul  ]Alain Beaulieu    29 Assyria in the Hebrew Bible 556 Eckart Frahm    30 Assyria in Classical Sources 570 Robert Rollinger    31 The Archaeological Exploration of Assyria 583 Mogens Trolle Larsen    32 Assyrian Christians 599 Aaron Michael Butts    List of Assyrian Kings 613 Eckart Frahm    Index 617