Assurbanipal and Egypt

A Source Study

Bibliographic Data

ID5005259
AuthorsAnthony Spalinger (0000-0003-2721-4749, corresponding author)
Year1974
Volume94
Issue3
Pages316
Publication date1974-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/600066
OpenAlexW2323145403
LanguageEN
Citations received13

THE TITLE OF THE SEVENTH CHAPTER OF OLIMSTEAD'S Assyrian Historiography gives a good indication of the problems that beset the historian when dealing with the campaigns of Assurbanipal: Assurbanipal and Assyrian Editing.1 This monarch had numerous accounts written as records of his military victories, all of which differ in considerable detail. Our purpose here will be to attempt to unravel these traditions with respect to the two Egyptian campaigns, and by means of this, to throw light on Assyrian-Egyptian relations. Before we shall deal with the actual events, it is perhaps best to list our sources and to demonstrate the different traditions that are at work in these documents.2 With respect to the Egyptian

Ancient history · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Ancient Near East History · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History

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