£51.49

Royal Image and Political Thinking in the Letters of Assurbanipal (State Archives of Assyria Studies)

Ancient History & Civilisation

Price data last checked 150 day(s) ago - refreshing...

View at Amazon

We'll watch every seller, every day. One email when your price arrives.

This is the usual price. Wait for it to drop, or tell us your number.

£51 today · usual range £0–£0 · best ever £49

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 104 days • 104 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 104 days • 4 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £51 (56 days, 53.8%)

Price range: £49 - £52

Price levels: 4 different prices over 104 days

Description

Assurbanipal, the last great king of the Assyrian Empire, ruled from 668 BC until at least 630 BC. Although he spent four years suppressing a revolt by Samas-sumu-ukīn, his older brother and the king of Babylon (667-648 BC), Assurbanipal's reign was much longer than the reigns of his predecessors, and he controlled almost the entirety of the ancient Near East. The correspondence of Assurbanipal constitutes an essential resource for knowledge of his reign. It consists of 345 letters: 100 letters from Assurbanipal (the so-called royal letters) and 245 letters addressed to him. Assurbanipal's royal letters deal with political, military, and diplomatic matters from the king's point of view and in his own words. The aim of this volume is to determine the image that Assurbanipal attempted to convey in his letters and to investigate the ways in which he utilized this image to advance Assyrian policies. Most of his royal letters were written during the revolt and its aftermath and were sent to Babylonia, Elam, and the Sealand, regions that were deeply involved in the revolt. Since the most common recipients of the missives were citizens, Assurbanipal clearly considered it important to address the population at large when the revolt shook the foundations of the empire. He engaged in dialogue with adversaries and adherents alike, emphasized the favors he had performed for them, and described himself as a benevolent and merciful king capable of establishing justice, peace, and equality in the realm. He involved Nippur and Uruk in Assyrian military activities against rebels and settled a sibling rivalry between the governor of Ur and his predecessor. Assurbanipal continued a conciliatory policy toward Babylon even during the revolt in an effort to resolve the conflict peacefully. He tried to bring foreign countries under Assyrian control by treaties and sometimes exerted direct pressure using veiled threats. Some countries came under Assyrian rule on their own initiative to acquire military and political advantages from Assyria. Throughout the royal letters, Assurbanipal stressed his devotion to the gods and their support for his rule.

Product Specifications

Format: paperback
ASIN: 9515185858
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Ancient History & Civilisation
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 17 February 2025
Listed Since: 27 July 2024

Barcode

No barcode data available

Royal Image and Political Thinking in the Letters of Assurbanipal (State Archives of Assyria Studies)

This is the usual price. Wait for it to drop, or tell us your number.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

From the Mari Archives: An Anthology of Old Babylonian Letters

From the Mari Archives: An Anthology of Old Babylonian Letters

The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East: Volume III: From the Hyksos to the Late Second Millennium BC: 3

Satellite and Archaeological Reconnaissance in the Ṭūr ’Abdīn, Turkey: Final Report of the Finnish Swedish Archaeological project in Mesopotamia (FSAPM), 2014-2016

The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East: Volume II: From the End of the Third Millennium BC to the Fall of Babylon: 2

Oxford University Press - A Babylon Calendar Treatise Book

The First Dynasty of the Sealand in Mesopotamia: 20 (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER), 20)

As Above, So Below: Religion and Geography (Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale)

From Archaeology to Spectacle in Victorian Britain: The Case of Assyria, 1845-1854

Exemplars of Kingship: Art, Tradition, and the Legacy of the Akkadians

The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East: Volume IV: The Age of Assyria

A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts: Manuscripts in the Schøyen Collection: Cuneiform Texts I (Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences)

The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal (668–631 BC), Aššur-etel-ilāni (630–627 BC), and Sîn-šarra-iškun (626–612 BC), Kings of Assyria, Part 2 (Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period)

Jebel Aruda: An Uruk period temple and settlement in Syria: Volume II: Plates of Room Contents: 28.2 (Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities)

A History of Babylon, 2200 BC - AD 75 (Blackwell History of the Ancient World)

Much Ado about Marduk: Questioning Discourses of Royalty in First Millennium Mesopotamian Literature: 16 (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER), 16)

The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East: Volume I: From the Beginnings to Old Kingdom Egypt and the Dynasty of Akkad: 1

Tablets from the Iri-Sagrig Archive (CUSAS): 40 (CUSAS: Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology)

The Correspondence of the Kings of Ur: An Epistolary History of an Ancient Mesopotamian Kingdom (Mesopotamian Civilizations)

The Royal Inscriptions of Sargon II, King of Assyria (721705 BC): 2 (Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period)

Archaeology of Iran in the Historical Period (University of Tehran Science and Humanities Series)

The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago: Vol 20 U/W

Women in the Ancient Near East: A Sourcebook (Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World)

The Routledge Handbook of Emotions in the Ancient Near East