Assyrian Historiography (A Source Study) - Softcover

Olmstead, Albert Ten Eyck

9781414263076: Assyrian Historiography (A Source Study)

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ISBN 10: 1414263074 ISBN 13: 9781414263076

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Excerpt: ...its testimony is most needed. Footnote: Cf. Winckler, AOF. I. 109 ff. We can understand such "mistakes" in a display inscription, exposed to view in a place where it would not be safe for an individual to point out the truth. But that it could have been used as a piece justificative, with all its errors, when the Babylonians could at once have refuted it, is incredible. The accession of Tiglath Pileser IV (745-728) marks a return to warfare, and the consequent prosperity is reflected in an increase of the sources both in quantity and in quality. Footnote: For inscriptions of reign, cf. Rost, Keilschrifttexte Tiglat-Pilesers III; cf. also Anspacher, Tiglath Pileser, 1 ff. Tiglath Pileser prepared for the walls of his palace a series of annals, in three recensions, marked by the number of lines to the slab, seven, twelve, or sixteen, and seemingly by little else. Originally they adorned the walls of the central palace at Kalhu, but Esarhaddon, a later king of another dynasty, defaced many of the slabs and built them into his south west palace. Thus, even with the three different recensions, a large part of the Annals has been lost forever. For years, the great problem of the reign of Tiglath Pileser was the proper chronological arrangement of this inscription. Thanks to the aid of the Assyrian Chronicle, it is now fairly fixed, though with serious gaps. Once they are arranged, little further criticism is needed, for they are the usual type, rather dry and uninteresting to judge from the extant fragments. Footnote: Detailed bibliography of the fragments, Anspacher, Tiglath Pileser, 3 ff.; Discovery, Layard, NR. II. 300. L. 19 ff.; III R. 9 f. Rost, de inscriptione Tiglat-Pileser III quae vocatur Annalium, 1892; Rost, Iff.; 2 ff.; Winckler, Textbuchs�, 28 ff. Ungnad I. 113 ff.; Rogers, 313 ff.; Schrader KB. II. 24 ff.; Rodwell, RP�, V. 45 ff.; Menant, 144 ff. For discussion of arrangements of fragments, cf. G. Smith, Ztf. f. Aegyptologie, 1869, 9 ff.;...

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