The Neo‐Assyrian Period (ca. 1000–609<scp>bce</scp>)

Frahm, Eckart

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“…20 Bagg (2011) 205-13. 21 For a recent survey of this period (with further literature), see Frahm (2017) 173-76. 22 Radner (2008 57-63 (with maps); also chapter 4.…”

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The settlement of Yauna, ‘Ionian’ identity and the Greek presence on the Syrian coast in the second half of the eighth century BC: a reassessment of two letters from the Nimrud correspondence

Radner

Vacek

2022

J. Hell. Stud.

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We offer a reassessment of two letters from the state correspondence of Tiglath-pileser III of Assyria (r. 744–727 BC) with the earliest references to a town called Yauna and a people called the Yauneans, as encountered on the eastern Mediterranean coast by the newly established imperial administration. Past scholarship connected these Assyrian terms with the ethnonym ‘Ionians’ and/or the toponym ‘Ionia’. The study narrows down the location of Yauna, drawing also on a review of the coastal sites that have produced Greek ceramic imports: although identification remains elusive, Yauna was certainly situated in the territory of the kingdom of Hamath, and later the Assyrian province of Ṣimirra. Discussion of the historical and cultural background of Yauna’s foundation highlights its significance for the ‘transfer debate’ and the phenomenon of the ‘Greeks overseas’. We argue that the Assyrians first encountered the Yauneans in this locality and that, to them, they were originally simply the inhabitants of Yauna. Due to the similarities perceived between them and (other?) Greeks appearing in the eastern Mediterranean, the Assyrians came to apply the ethnonym universally to all these people, who eventually adopted it for themselves. Thus, we support the argument that the term ‘Ionian’ originated in external nomenclature.

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“…20 Bagg (2011) 205-13. 21 For a recent survey of this period (with further literature), see Frahm (2017) 173-76. 22 Radner (2008 57-63 (with maps); also chapter 4.…”

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confidence: 99%

The settlement of Yauna, ‘Ionian’ identity and the Greek presence on the Syrian coast in the second half of the eighth century BC: a reassessment of two letters from the Nimrud correspondence

Radner

Vacek

2022

J. Hell. Stud.

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“…The Neo-Assyrian period is characterised by a rapid expansion of territory controlled by Assyrians in the north of what is now modern-day Iraq from 934-612 BCE. At its height, the Assyrians controlled territory from the Zagros mountains to Egypt and Eastern Turkey 10 . This huge empire left behind thousands of cuneiform texts in the Akkadian language in various genres that have been published in text editions by scholars.…”

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Embodied Emotions in Ancient Neo-Assyrian Texts Revealed by Bodily Mapping of Emotional Semantics

Lahnakoski,

Bennett,

Nummenmaa

et al. 2024

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Autonomic activity during emotions is subjectively felt in the body via interoceptive and somatosensory pathways resulting in emotion specific bodily sensations. Here we utilized this relationship and computational linguistic methods to map a representation of emotions in ancient texts. We analysed Neo-Assyrian texts from 934–612 BCE to discern consistent relationships between linguistic expressions related to both emotions and bodily sensations. We then computed statistical regularities between emotion terms and words referring to body parts, and back-projected the resulting emotion body part relationships on a standard body template, yielding bodily sensation maps for the emotions. We found consistent embodied patterns for eighteen distinct emotions. Hierarchical clustering revealed four main clusters of bodily emotion categories, two clusters of mainly positive emotions, one large cluster of mainly negative emotions and one of empathy and schadenfreude. These results reveal the historical use of embodied language pertaining to human emotions. Our data-driven tool projecting emotional lexical spaces on a human body provides a novel method for comparing textual embodiment patterns across different languages and cultures across time.

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From Assurbanipal to Cambyses

Rollinger¹

2021

A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire

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The Neo‐Assyrian Period (ca. 1000–609bce)

Cited by 54 publications

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The settlement of Yauna, ‘Ionian’ identity and the Greek presence on the Syrian coast in the second half of the eighth century BC: a reassessment of two letters from the Nimrud correspondence

The settlement of Yauna, ‘Ionian’ identity and the Greek presence on the Syrian coast in the second half of the eighth century BC: a reassessment of two letters from the Nimrud correspondence

Embodied Emotions in Ancient Neo-Assyrian Texts Revealed by Bodily Mapping of Emotional Semantics

From Assurbanipal to Cambyses

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