Assyrian conquest and ruralization: unveiling territorial dynamics in the provinces of Magiddû and Samerina
“This study has illustrated that the Assyrian territorial strategy implemented in the provinces of Magiddû and Samerina, established upon the remnants of the Kingdom of Israel, manifested as clusters of sites, termed ‘islands of control’. These ‘islands’ comprised a rural landscape overseen by the principal cities of Tel Dan, Megiddo and Samaria. This territorial approach mirrors a broader modus operandi adopted by the Assyrians across their empire to manage agricultural production.”
Squitieri, A. (2024) ‘Assyrian conquest and ruralization: unveiling territorial dynamics in the provinces of Magiddû and Samerina’, Levant, pp. 1–20. doi: https://www.doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2024.2351677.
The Reception of the Marduk Prophecy in Seventh-Century B.C. Nineveh
“This article discusses how the Marduk Prophecy was read and re-interpreted in Nineveh at that time. Between the Marduk Prophecy and the royal literature during the reign of Ashurbanipal, the following common themes can be recognized: (1) reconstruction of the Babylonian temples, above all Esagil; (2) conquest of Elam; and (3) fulfillment of divine prophecies. On the basis of these, the author proposes that in the seventh-century Nineveh the Marduk Prophecy was regarded as an authentic prophecy predicting the achievements of Ashurbanipal, and that this is the main reason why this text was read at his court.”
Takuma SUGIE, The Reception of the Marduk Prophecy in Seventh-Century B.C. Nineveh, Orient, 2014, Volume 49, Pages 107-113, Released on J-STAGE April 03, 2017, Online ISSN 1884-1392, Print ISSN 0473-3851, https://doi.org/10.5356/orient.49.107.
“The implication is that Anglo-Saxon elites had access to significant quantities of Byzantine silver, something that dramatically alters our view of how economically and politically connected they were.”
“_ The implication is that Anglo-Saxon elites had access to significant quantities of Byzantine silver, something that dramatically alters our view of how economically and politically connected they were._”
"After a thorough examination, we may conclude that the item’s amateurish preparation and local origin are suggestive of a scribal exercise. The use of an available mould that was not suitable for a tablet, the child’s fingerprint on the reverse and the corrected mistakes in the script all point to an inexperienced scribe."
“After a thorough examination, we may conclude that the item’s amateurish preparation and local origin are suggestive of a scribal exercise. The use of an available mould that was not suitable for a tablet, the child’s fingerprint on the reverse and the corrected mistakes in the script all point to an inexperienced scribe.”
Description: Theft is probably one of the most annoying aspects of social life. It is by no means the most dramatic one, but it is one of those things you constantly have in mind. In most Slavic languages, a thief (‘złodziej’ in Polish, ‘злодій’ in Ukrainian, ‘zloděj’ in Czech) literally means an evildoer, as it was this kind of wrongdoing that almost everybody had to deal with. But while theft likely existed in all human societies, it changed over time: how much the thieves stole, what they stole, who stole and from whom, and how people protected themselves - all of these evolved over time. In short, theft has its history and can be a subject of historical research. Late Antiquity is a good period to study it because, in this era, thieves become more visible than before. This paper, examining documentary and literary evidence, will seek to answer questions about how people dealt with theft, attempted to apprehend thieves and recover goods, and, most importantly, what impact theft and the methods of dealing with it had on communities and individuals.
🪔 For #EpigraphyTuesday: Military diploma of a Lycian sailor of the Miseno fleet, Sextus Memmius Clearchi. Dated to 16 November 140 AD, it attests to the granting of Roman citizenship to a Lycian sailor after 26 years of service in the imperial fleet. 📸 me
🪔 For eyes pleasure: three roman glass vessels dated to the 1st-3rd cc AD, now on dispay in the Romanité Museum of Nîmes. 📸 me
👉 Don't hesitate to write in comments what kind of posts you would like to see here: pics, more info about objects, links to "long" blog posts, other... Your feedback is welcome ! 🙂🍀
Public Seminar (online): “A Continental Perspective: How Animals Took Their Place in Ancient History” by Prof. Christophe Chandezon of Université Paul-Valéry,
Montpellier
7th March 2024 at 5pm GMT
All are very welcome to attend
🪔 For #ReliefWednesay: a funerary stele with the insignia of a centurion from #Burnum, #Croatia. Dated to the 1st quarter of the 1st c. AD, it depicts a set of nine phalerae connected by a belt. 👉 It is now in the Archaeological Museum of #Zadar, Croatia. 📸 me
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🪔 For French-speakers, here is the newly published "Archaeological Atlas of France". 📜 It was released by The French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap).
🪔 Such atlas has never been published before. Its documentation comes from tens of thousands of excavations and archaeological surveys carried out by Inrap in France over the last few decades during preventive archaeology operations.
🪔Read ALT text for details.🙂👉 #antiquity @archaeodons@histodons @antiquidons
🪔 An extremely interesting article was published in the Science Advances magazine. The study says that major pandemic events of #roman#antiquity as well as periods of crisis are strongly associated with pronounced climate change, namely a drop of temperatures.
🪔 The chart shows the correlation between temperatures and diseases & periods of crisis in the Roman empire.
👉 The full study can be found on the site of the Science Advances magazine: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk1033 #archaeology@archaeodons
"The strength of HOW TO BE lies exactly here, in the acknowledgment of new ideas and new developments happening in the encounters, the borderlands, and on the peripheries."
This week on The Boomerang, I discuss Adam Nicolson's new book HOW TO BE. LIFE LESSONS FROM THE EARLY GREEKS (FSG, 2023). Enjoy!
"This article examines veiling and head-covering as a complex social practice shaped by numerous intersectional and situational factors beyond religion, including status, practicality, fashion and social context."
Visitors to Rome's new Forma Urbis Museum on the Caelian Hill can walk across a glass floor with fragments of a massive marble map of Rome engraved in the early 3rd century under Emperor Septimius Severus.