New Article(s)! On ancient Near Eastern queenship and a review

It’s been a while, but three articles or scholarly work I’ve been involved with have been published!

The first I want to highlight should be seen as a pair, and are part of a long project started within ANEE I think in 2019. Led by Melanie Wasmuth, it’s ambitious goal was to compare kingship and queenship across the empires of the first millennium BCE, and included a huge number of authors. I was involved in developing the section about Neo-Assyrian queenship in the articles. Two articles have now been published from this project, the first titled ‘Kingship and Queenship in the Ancient Near Eastern Empires of the 1st Millennium BCE: The Economic Basis‘, and the second called ‘Kingship and Queenship in the Ancient Near Eastern Empires of the First Millennium BCE: Presentation to the Public as Builder‘. Both are available to view for free.

The third is my first book review in eight years. I was delighted to be asked to review Zozan Tarhan’s ‘Authority and Ideology in the Early Neo-Assyrian Empire (934-745 BCE)’ by the journal BASOR. It’s a fantastic overview of the military and ideological power and authority of the Assyrian state, and argues this period of history should be seen as a continuation of the Middle Assyrian period.