Sarah C Melville
Biographic Data
| ID | 1440578 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah C Melville |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah C |
| FAMILY NAME | Melville |
| SIGNATURE | MELVILLE S C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Clarkson University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Scourge of God
The Scourge of God: The Umman-manda and Its Significance in the First Millennium BC. By Selim Ferruh Adali. State Archives of Assyria Studies, vol. 20. Helsinki: The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus ProJect, 2011. Pp. xviii + 218. $62 (paper
Zakutu (Naqi'a)
Naqi'a (Akkadian Zakutu) was an important figure at the Assyrian court during the reign of her son, Esarhaddon (r. 680–669 bce ).
Queens, ancient Near East
From earliest times queens and queen mothers played important roles in the state hierarchy: they owned property, met foreign delegations, performed religious rituals, and corresponded with high officials. Despite their considerable power, queens did not appoint high officials, lead armies or deliver death sentences. A powerful counterpart to the reigning monarch, the queen was nonetheless subject to him like everyone else.
Eunuchs, ancient Near East
Throughout the ancient Near East, eunuchs played important administrative roles at court, though these varied by culture and across time.
Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in the Assyrian Empire during the Late Eighth Century bce
The Role of Rituals in Warfare during the Neo-Assyrian Period
In imperial Assyria during the first millennium BCE, ritual pervaded every aspect of life. As the link between the divine realm and the earthly one, the king's primary duty was to discover the gods' will and enact it. To this end, an array of ritual experts in the art of reading and reacting to divine signs aided the king. Due to the risk involved, warfare required particular attention from the experts during every phase of operations. Based on e…
Queens, ancient Near East
In the ancient Near East queens and queen mothers sometimes wielded great power, but rarely as rulers in their own right.
Adad‐guppi
Adad‐guppi was the mother of Nabonidus, the last ruler of the Neo‐Babylonian Dynasty. Her extraordinary 104‐year life was recorded in a posthumous pseudo‐autobiography (Longman 1991) on twin funeral steles displayed at the Ehulhul, the temple of Sin in Harran (Pognon 1907; Gadd 1958).
Zakutu (Naqi'a)
Naqi'a (Akkadian Zakutu) was an important figure at the Assyrian court during the reign of her son, Esarhaddon (r. 680–669 BCE ).
Eunuchs, ancient Near East
During the second and first millennia BCE , eunuchs served in various official capacities at royal courts in the Near East, including those of the Assyrians, Babylonians, Hittites, and Urartians. Because sources are fragmentary and spread over a wide area and time, the extent to which eunuchs permeated society and the administrative hierarchy remains highly controversial.
Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part II
Neo-Assyrian Royal Women and Male Identity
For the three centuries between approximately 900 and 600 B.C., Assyria was the major power of the Near East, ruling over the largest empire the world had ever seen. Having become rich with the spoils of war and tribute of subject nations, Assyrian kings built cities, palaces, temples, and public works as expressions of their power. The abundant monuments and textual records from this period reveal a male-oriented society in which politics, milit…
Neo-Assyrian Royal Women and Male Identity
For the three centuries between approximately 900 and 600 B.C., Assyria was the major power of the Near East, ruling over the largest empire the world had ever seen. Having become rich with the spoils of war and tribute of subject nations, Assyrian kings built cities, palaces, temples, and public works as expressions of their power. The abundant monuments and textual records from this period reveal a male-oriented society in which politics, milit…
Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part II
Neo-Assyrian Royal Women and Male Identity
For the three centuries between approximately 900 and 600 B.C., Assyria was the major power of the Near East, ruling over the largest empire the world had ever seen. Having become rich with the spoils of war and tribute of subject nations, Assyrian kings built cities, palaces, temples, and public works as expressions of their power. The abundant monuments and textual records from this period reveal a male-oriented society in which politics, milit…
Queens, ancient Near East
In the ancient Near East queens and queen mothers sometimes wielded great power, but rarely as rulers in their own right.
Adad‐guppi
Adad‐guppi was the mother of Nabonidus, the last ruler of the Neo‐Babylonian Dynasty. Her extraordinary 104‐year life was recorded in a posthumous pseudo‐autobiography (Longman 1991) on twin funeral steles displayed at the Ehulhul, the temple of Sin in Harran (Pognon 1907; Gadd 1958).
Zakutu (Naqi'a)
Naqi'a (Akkadian Zakutu) was an important figure at the Assyrian court during the reign of her son, Esarhaddon (r. 680–669 BCE ).
Eunuchs, ancient Near East
During the second and first millennia BCE , eunuchs served in various official capacities at royal courts in the Near East, including those of the Assyrians, Babylonians, Hittites, and Urartians. Because sources are fragmentary and spread over a wide area and time, the extent to which eunuchs permeated society and the administrative hierarchy remains highly controversial.
Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in the Assyrian Empire during the Late Eighth Century bce
The Role of Rituals in Warfare during the Neo-Assyrian Period
In imperial Assyria during the first millennium BCE, ritual pervaded every aspect of life. As the link between the divine realm and the earthly one, the king's primary duty was to discover the gods' will and enact it. To this end, an array of ritual experts in the art of reading and reacting to divine signs aided the king. Due to the risk involved, warfare required particular attention from the experts during every phase of operations. Based on e…
Queens, ancient Near East
From earliest times queens and queen mothers played important roles in the state hierarchy: they owned property, met foreign delegations, performed religious rituals, and corresponded with high officials. Despite their considerable power, queens did not appoint high officials, lead armies or deliver death sentences. A powerful counterpart to the reigning monarch, the queen was nonetheless subject to him like everyone else.
Eunuchs, ancient Near East
Throughout the ancient Near East, eunuchs played important administrative roles at court, though these varied by culture and across time.
Zakutu (Naqi'a)
Naqi'a (Akkadian Zakutu) was an important figure at the Assyrian court during the reign of her son, Esarhaddon (r. 680–669 bce ).
Scourge of God
The Scourge of God: The Umman-manda and Its Significance in the First Millennium BC. By Selim Ferruh Adali. State Archives of Assyria Studies, vol. 20. Helsinki: The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus ProJect, 2011. Pp. xviii + 218. $62 (paper
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