Assyria and the South
- Title
- Assyria and the South
- Date
- 2006
- Is Part Of
- Orientalism, Assyriology and the Bible
- Pages
- 286-298
- Language
- eng
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
- ISBN
- 978-1-118-32521-6
- 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.
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