Making the Invisible Visible

Novotny, Jamie und Sonik, Karen (2024): Making the Invisible Visible. Propaganda, Ideology, and Intertextuality in Assyrian Royal Narrative. In: Shehata, Dahlia und Sonik, Karen (eds.) : Contemporary Approaches to Mesopotamian Literature: How to Tell a Story. Cuneiform Monographs, Vol. 56. Leiden and Boston: Brill. pp. 235-251

Abstract

Excavations undertaken in the Middle East over the course of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries1 have recovered a wealth of narratives written in diverse ancient languages—Sumerian, Akkadian, and Hittite among them—using the cuneiform writing system. These narratives survive, either in part or in full, thanks to the durability of the materials on which they were written: clay, stone, and metal. Narrative compositions, moreover, represent a fraction of the vast number of cuneiform texts that are today housed in museum collections around the world. These are a testament to the army of scribes and scholars that once worked for the various royal dynasties and temples in the ancient Near East.

• Item Type: Book Section
• Keywords: Royal inscriptions; royal narratives; Tukulti-Ninurta; Assyria; Esarhaddon; Nebuchadnezzar; Nabonidus
• Faculties: History and Art History > Department of History; History and Art History > Department of History > Ancient History; Cultural Studies > Department of Ancient and Modern Cultures > Assyriology and Hethitology; Cultural Studies > Department of Ancient and Modern Cultures > Near and Middle Eastern Studies
• Subjects: 900 History and geography > 900 Geschichte; 900 History and geography > 930 History of ancient world (to ca. 499)
• ISBN: 978-90-04-69756-0
• ISSN: 0929-0052
• Place of Publication: Leiden and Boston
• Language: English