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RELATIONS OF POWER IN EARLY NEO-ASSYRIAN STATE ...

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 deities  the Assyrian king  and
foreign lands are described and depicted. It undertakes a close reading of delimited royal
inscriptions and iconography making use of postcolonial and gender theory  and addresses such
topics as royal deification  religious imperialism  ethnicity and empire  and gendered imagery.
The important contribution of this study lies especially in its identification of patterns of
ideological continuity and variation within the reigns of individual rulers  between various
localities  and between the different rulers of this period  and in its discussion of the place
of Early Neo-Assyrian state ideology in the overall development of Assyrian propaganda. It
includes several indexed appendices  which list all primary sources  present all divine and
royal epithets  and provide all of the royal visual representations  and incorporates numerous
illustrations  such as maps  plans  and royal iconography.

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