The reconstruction of the neo-Assyrian army. As depicted on the Assyrian palace reliefs, 745-612 BC

Dezsö, Tamás

doi:10.1556/aarch.57.2006.1-3.8

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“…By the time of Esarhaddon, Balāssu was already dead, but his son and daughter were sent from the Assyrian palace to Borsippa, the castle of their dynasty. 11 Available evidence shows that Esarhaddon wanted to use Balāssu's son Nabû-šallim, who had lived in the Assyrian capital for a long time, for the benefit of Assyria. Another document from the royal archive proves that Nabû-šallim arrived safely in Borsippa.…”

Section: Noble Refugeesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Foreign Royal Nobles in the Neo Assyrian Empire

Toptaş

2024

Journal of Universal History Studies

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The Assyrian kings, who reached the peak of their power in the Near East between 934-612 BC, implemented various practices that would help them maintain their military and political dominance. Assyria's policy towards foreign royal captives, hostages, and refugees can also be considered within these practices. Assyria's policy was expected to preserve peace and keep some lands under control without war. The Assyrian kings carried the enemy kings and their family members whom they defeated as a result of military campaigns to Assyrian centres and captivated them, aiming to break the resistance of those regions and intimidate their enemies. In addition, Assyria aimed to gain some binding advantages to make the agreements permanent by taking hostages from the kings with whom it made agreements or made them swear allegiance. For this purpose, noble captives and hostages were subjected to Assyrian education and were tried to turn into allies who could be appointed as rulers of their countries in the future. Assyrian kings also wanted to establish their relations with these kingdoms on a binding and permanent basis by including the daughters of enemy or allied kings in their harems. Finally, they protected the noble people who took refuge in them in Assyrian cities and even helped them to become kings in their countries, depending on the changes in the political situation. Thus, the Assyrian kings thought that they could create rulers loyal to themselves. Based on cuneiform documents, this study investigates the Assyrian practice of taking captives and hostages, the position and status of foreign princesses sent to the Assyrian court, and the place of refugees in Assyrian policy. The study aims to reveal all aspects of Assyria's policy and to draw a portrait of the lives of foreign royals in the Assyrian court and cities. The primary sources used in this study are the royal inscriptions and the Assyrian state archive.

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Section: Noble Refugeesmentioning

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Foreign Royal Nobles in the Neo Assyrian Empire

Toptaş

2024

Journal of Universal History Studies

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“…Another key change was that the military became more professionalized, with full-time soldiers now forming the officer core, which allowed the military to campaign all year round. As the empire became ethnically diverse, mercenaries, foreign officers and soldiers were incorporated or conscripted into the military, where they had a greater influence on Assyrian campaigns (Oded 1979: 48-54;Dezső 2012). This military reform probably helped shape rapid gains in the empire in the late eighth century BCE and allowed some foreigners to benefit from Assyria's success.…”

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Revolutionizing a World

2015

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“…In the early 1 st millennium BCE, new techniques for mass-producing leather scale armor-associated with the Neo-Assyrian empire-spread as far away as Xinjiang in northwest China [26]. Artwork of the Neo-Assyrian period supports this idea, depicting entire armies clad in armor [24,25]. Across much of Inner Asia, light armor and clothing made of skin and furs, along with lamellar armor made of organic plates, tended to be favored in mounted combat from the first millennium BCE [31,32].…”

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“…Significantly, some scholars have characterized changes in arrow point designs as part of an arms race in the ancient Near East, driving the development of body armor as well as more effective weapons to combat armored opponents [21][22][23]. As depicted in artwork and recorded in surviving ledgers, combatants on ancient Bronze and Iron Age battlefields frequently wore armor, sometimes including or even comprised entirely of metal scales sewn to a backing, but the majority of armor worn by common soldiers was constructed of more affordable fabric or leather [21,[24][25][26][27]. Due to the highly perishable nature of such armor, intact examples are rare, making it challenging to trace its age or distribution [26,28,29].…”

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Reassessing the terminal ballistic performance of trilobate and quadrilobate arrow points on Iron Age battlefields

Pettigrew

Taylor

2023

PLoS ONE

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In the Eurasian Iron Age arrow points comprise a prominent class of artifact. Projectile experiments are useful for studying the ballistic performance of ancient arrow points and implications of arrow point innovations in warfare and shifting socio politics in Eurasia. However, when projectile experiments are not representative of past weapon use, they can lead to misinterpretations of the archaeological record. Notable problems arise when homogeneous target simulants used in controlled experiments are not representative of the targets past weapons were designed to encounter. This article explores the relationship between arrow point morphology and design choices in the Iron Age using different target media. Shooting arrow points into pottery clay leads to the conclusion that more blades reduced penetrating performance on ancient battlefields, but a very different result obtains by shooting the same points into thick tooling leather as a simulant for leather body armor. The results help explain patterns observed in the Eurasian archaeological record, where trilobate arrow points–initially developed by lightly armored horse archers on the Eurasian steppe–were increasingly adopted by a wide range of societies across Eurasia throughout the Iron Age.

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The reconstruction of the neo-Assyrian army. As depicted on the Assyrian palace reliefs, 745-612 BC

Cited by 14 publications

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Foreign Royal Nobles in the Neo Assyrian Empire

Foreign Royal Nobles in the Neo Assyrian Empire

Revolutionizing a World

Reassessing the terminal ballistic performance of trilobate and quadrilobate arrow points on Iron Age battlefields

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