Section outline

  • Paper 1 due

    Required Reading

    • G. Barjamovic, “The Empires of Western Asia and the Assyrian World Empire,” in OWHE, 73-110
    • B. J. Parker, “Archaeological Manifestations of Empire: Assyria’s Imprint on Southeastern Anatolia,” American Journal of Archaeology 107 (2003), 525-57

    Optional Reading

    • V. R. Herrmann, “The Empire in the House, the House in the Empire: Toward a Household Archaeology Perspective on the Assyrian Empire,” in A. Yasur-Landau et al. (ed.), Household Archaeology in Ancient Israel and Beyond (Leiden: Brill, 2011), 303-20
    • M. S. Rosenzweig, “Cultivating Subjects in the Neo-Assyrian Empire,” Journal of Social Archaeology 16/3 (2016), 307-34
    • D. Morandi Bonacossi, “The Creation of the Assyrian Heartland: New Data from the ‘Land behind Nineveh,’” in AIL, 48-85  
    • B. S. Düring, “The Assyrian Threshold: Explaining Imperial Consolidation in the Early Assyrian Empire,” in AE, 145-65
    • E. Miller, "Drawing Distinctions: Assyrians and Others in the Art of the Neo-Assyrian Empire," Studia Orientalia Electronica 9/2 (2021), 82-107