#assyria — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #assyria, aggregated by home.social.
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Neo-Assyrian glass game pieces, Iraq, 911-604 BCE
https://piefed.social/c/historyartifacts/p/2175793/neo-assyrian-glass-game-pieces-iraq-911-604-bce
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Assyrian wardog and handler (Angus McBride)
https://piefed.social/c/historyart/p/2158576/assyrian-wardog-and-handler-angus-mcbride
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El domingo 26 de abril me pasé por el CaixaForum a ver la expo "Soy Asurbanipal, rey del mundo, rey de Asiria".
Impresionante, y magnífica la manera de animar los relieves mediante proyecciones de luz.
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Assyrian palace hall (Austen Henry Layard)
https://piefed.social/c/historyart/p/2075549/assyrian-palace-hall-austen-henry-layard
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Assyrian sickle-sword, Iraq, Syria, or Turkiye, ~1300 BCE
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Tablilla con contrato de matrimonio entre Laqipum y Hatala, hija de Enišru, de la colonia siria de Kaneš en el siglo XIX a.C., donde él no puede casarse con otra en dichas tierras, salvo con una hieródula en Aššur. Si ella no concibe en 2 años, adquirirá a una esclava, pudiendo venderla en cuanto le de un hijo. Aquel que decida divorciarse, le pagará 5 minas de plata al otro. 🏛️Universidad Harran #asiria #assyria
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From @joannechocolat
Naqiʾa was a wife of the Assyrian king Sennacherib (705–681 BC).
She was highly influential in Assyrian #history as well as being one of only a few Assyrian women to be depicted in art,
... and is the only known ancient Assyrian figure other than kings to write and issue a treaty. 🤩
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Aunque Senaquerib tuvo inicialmente como reina a Tašmētu-šarrat, Naqi'a obtuvo esta posición y favoreció la coronación de su hijo Asarhaddón. Durante su reinado, alcanzó gran riqueza y tierras, gobernando aquellas en torno a Lahira. Su último testimonio fue el tratado que obligaba a los aristócratas y a la familia real a jurar lealtad a su nieto Asurbanipal. 🏛️Louvre #asiria #assyria
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Ancient Civilization PCM (Glory to the PEOPLE'S imperialism!)
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Ancient Civilization PCM (Glory to the PEOPLE'S imperialism!)
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Ancient Civilization PCM (Glory to the PEOPLE'S imperialism!)
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A hidden sand layer beneath Assur’s Ishtar Temple dates the city to nearly 2900 BCE and reveals ritual choices linking geology, belief, and urban origins in early Mesopotamia. #Archaeology #Assyria #AncientCities #Ritual https://www.anthropology.net/p/a-bed-of-sand-for-a-goddess
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📚 The greatest library in the world was built by this ruthless king
🔗 https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/ancient-assyria-library-nineveh
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A readable account of an ancient empire that arose in modern-day Iraq, ruled the Middle East for a century, and then vanished suddenly and permanently, much like the Hittites. How can an entire nation disappear?
https://news.yale.edu/2023/05/26/assyria-chronicling-rise-and-fall-worlds-first-empire
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Voices In Clay - with Dr. Irving Finkel Inside The British Museum - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shiB3QXDqUUHe is great to listen to. I have a playlist even ;-)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-aKLEHpdXVa73G0TNQFRPGGNMC70VHOv -
Triumph and Betrayal: Assyria’s Path to Empire, 935–745 BC by Alexander Johannes Edmonds, 2025
While the study of Assyria as ‘the world’s first empire’ has never been more popular, the events of the foundational early Neo-Assyrian period (935–745 BC) remain only poorly understood and explained.
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the assyrians were doing oracles by sacrificing animals, mostly goats and rams as it looks. and they were recording these sacrifices for posteriority or bureaucracy. they always used these severability clauses in their incantations, to make the gods respond even if some of the priest had messed up ("please respond even if the priest is unclean").
and sometimes these questions to the gods were so secret that even the gods were not allowed to hear their content during the sacrifice:I [ask] you, Šamaš, great lord, whether Assurbanipal, son of Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, should send Nabû-šarru-uṣur, rab-mūgi, to Egypt, and whether he will carry out whatever orders Assurbanipal is giving to him.
they expect a kind of carte blanche here ...
#assyria #archaeology #cuneiform
RE: https://mastodon.xyz/@gizmomathboy/115593802242669806 -
A lavish Iron Age cremation at Horvat Tevet is rewriting what scholars thought about Assyrian power and rural life in the Jezreel Valley. Luxury imports, trade tools, and a mysterious life converge in one extraordinary burial. #Archaeology #IronAge #Levant #Assyria https://www.anthropology.net/p/a-fire-in-the-valley-what-an-iron
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"#Academics in #Assyria in the 7th c BCE complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching."
From Selena Wisnom on bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/lswisnom.bsky.social/post/3m4prfcpzxc22
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from the book, also from #Assyria
"A message from Silla-Labbum and Elani: Tell Puzur-Assur,
Amua, and Assur-Samsi:
Thirty years ago you left the city of Assur. You have never made
a deposit since, and we have not recovered one shekel of silver
from you, but we have never made you feel bad about this. Our
tablets have been going to you with caravan after caravan, but
no report from you has ever come here. We have addressed claims
to your father but we have not been claiming one shekel of..." -
these next few are from a pdf/book, so i don't have pictures.
https://isac.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/shared/docs/letters_from_mesopotamia.pdf
this pretty short one is from #Assyria
"A message from Usupisqum: Tell Amur-ili and Puzur-Istar:
I keep hearing reports that you have sent merchandise to Ina-
Sin and to Inarawe. Both these men are dead! Although I searched
for evidence for the arrival of any silver, there isn't any. One of
you should come here from where you are, or else the silver
belonging to your father will be lost." -
Haven't done one of these in a while. Let's talk about calendars of the ancient Near East.
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#Caledar #Calendars #History #Timekeeping #Sumer #Assyria #Babylon #Anatolia #Mesopotamia #Babylonia
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Acta judicial (1950-1835 a.C.) de los archivos mercantiles asirios de Kültepe sobre el reparto de una herencia paterna, que 3 años después de morir no se había resuelto. Amur-Šamaš lo había cuidado en los últimos meses de vida, pero Ikūnum se negaba a pagar por el funeral y acusó a su hermano de quedarse las propiedades de su padre, incluido su sello, perjudicando también a su hermana.🏛️Museo de las Civilizaciones de Anatolia #asiria #assyria