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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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.
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!
