ASSYRIAN IDENTITY IN ANCIENT TIMES AND TODAY'

ASSYRIAN IDENTITY IN ANCIENT TIMES AND TODAY ASSYRIAN IDENTITY IN ANCIENT TIMES AND TODAY1 Simo Parpola, Helsinki Introduction The Neo- ASSYRIAN Empire was a multi-ethnic state composed of many peoples and tribes of different origins (cf. Postgate 1989). Its ethnic diversity notwithstanding, it was a uniformly structured political entity with well-defined and well-guarded borders,2 and the ASSYRIAN kings certainly regarded it as a unified whole, "the land of A ur", whose territory they constantly strove to expand (Tadmor 1999; see also below). To the outside world, it likewise was a unified, monolithic whole, whose inhabitants were unhesitatingly identified as Assyrians regardless of their ethnic However, just how far did the masses of the Empire's population actually share the ASSYRIAN IDENTITY ?

ASSYRIAN IDENTITY IN ANCIENT TIMES AND TODAY ASSYRIAN IDENTITY IN ANCIENT TIMES AND TODAY1 Simo Parpola, Helsinki Introduction The Neo-Assyrian Empire was a multi-ethnic state composed of many peoples and

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