id
	13037
Url
	https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/13037
Resource template
	Book Section
Resource class
	bibo:BookSection
Title
	Assyria and the South
Creator
	Frahm, Eckart
	Holloway, Steven
Publisher
	John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Date
	2006
Language
	eng
Abstract
	This chapter seeks to describe and analyze the relations between Assyria and Babylonia as they unfolded over time. Like all of Upper Mesopotamia, the “Assyrian triangle”, demarcated in historical times by the cities Ashur, Nineveh, and Arbela, experienced a phase of pronounced regionalization and ruralization during the first centuries of the third millennium BCE, with little evidence for economic, cultural, or political interaction with the south. From ca. 2700 onwards, however, there are indications of a growing urbanization in the region, and southern influences began to play a more significant role. For several decades, Assyria had to focus its military attention on other regions, especially Urartu, and besides skirmishes with Aramaean semi-nomads in the Assyro-Babylonian border area, little Assyrian activity in the south is recorded. All this changed with the accession of Tiglath-pileser III (744-727), when Assyro-Babylonian relations entered an entirely new phase.
Is Part Of
	Orientalism, Assyriology and the Bible
Isbn
	978-1-118-32521-6
Pages
	286-298
Uri
	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118325216.ch15
Homepage
	https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/MKUMDY67/item-list

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