Sent my dissertation to the committee last night. Nine chapters, 607 body pages (905 total pages) which will hopefully change how we think about the internal workings of the Assyrian Empire.
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The Assyrian Empire is important! Persisting through the late bronze age and into the iron age, it was a major power-player in the pre-Achaemenid Near East, at once point going so far as to conquer even Egypt.
But like most ancient states not named "Rome" "Macedon" or "Athens," Assyria is often under-studied and under-published on. Getting another good look at it will be really handy for thinking about empires in a comparative way.
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My intended point was "I doubt I'll have the time to read this or the background to understand it, why am I personally getting excited?"
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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Can you imagine if we had an archive of Alexander the Great's official correspondence with Ptolemy, Lysimachus, Perdiccas, etc? Because we do have the equivalent of that for Assyria...but it receives far less attention.
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I'm astounded by the large, detailed contemporary reliefs of siege and battle scenes. The Lachish reliefs alone have more representational evidence for soldiers and equipment than what we have for essentially the entire Roman Republic!
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