This volume examines the state ideology of Assyria in the Early Neo-Assyrian period (934-745 BCE) focusing on how power relations between the Mesopotamian deiti

The great gods were imagined as the masters and the conquerors of the foreign lands. The Assyrian king presented himself as the representative, priest, servant,

This book is a comprehensive analysis of the image of "enemy" in Assyrian state ideology, based on royal titles attested in Assyrian documents from Old Assyrian

A Companion to Assyria is a collection of original essays on ancient Assyria written by key international scholars. These new scholarly contributions have subst

This book explores the aspiration to universal, imperial rule across Eurasian history from antiquity to the eighteenth century.