Revisiting the Identities of the Four Foreigners Represented on Ashurbanipal Relief BM ME 124945-6

Novotny, Jamie; Watanabe, Chikako E. (2018): Revisiting the Identities of the Four Foreigners Represented on Ashurbanipal Relief BM ME 124945-6. Unravelling the Mystery of an Unrecorded Event. In: Yamada, Shigeo (ed.) : Neo-Assyrian Sources in Context: Thematic Studies on Texts, History, and Culture. State Archives of Assyria Studies, Vol. 28. University Park: Eisenbrauns. pp. 93-115

Abstract

This joint study of Novotny and Watanabe deals with the personal and ethnic identity of four foreigners depicted on a wall relief of the North Palace in Nineveh as submitting to Ashurbanipal after the fall of Babylon. The study analyzed the pictographic details with circumstantial evidence from the king’s inscriptions.

• Item Type: Book Section
• Form of publication: Publisher's Version
• Keywords: Assyria; Ashurbanipal; wall reliefs
• Faculties: History and Art History > Department of History > Ancient History
• Subjects: 400 Language > 490 Other languages; 900 History and geography > 930 History of ancient world (to ca. 499)
• ISBN: 978-952-10-9501-6
• ISSN: 1235-1032
• Place of Publication: University Park
• Language: English