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This bibliography lists editions of primary sources and historical studies focusing on the period between 745 and 705 BC, from Tiglatpileser III's usurpation of the Assyrian throne to Sargon II's death on the battlefield. While it is not intended to be an exhaustive research bibliography and much of the older literature has been omitted, it features the key works of the last two decades in English, German, French and Italian.

We are indebted to all authors, editors and publishers who generously permitted us to use materials originally published in printed form.

• Background and reference
• Primary sources – official inscriptions
• Primary sources – archival texts
• Sargon's residence city Dur-Šarruken (Khorsabad)
• The queens' tombs at Kalhu (Nimrud) and other archaeological remains
• On kings and queens
• Inside the empire
• Foreign policy
• Geographical and chronological studies
• Studies on military history
• Historical studies on ideology and religion

Background and reference

Altaweel, M., The imperial landscape of Ashur: settlement and land use in the Assyrian heartland (Heidelberger Studien zum Alten Orient 11), Heidelberg: Heidelberger Orientverlag, 2008.

Bagg, A., Die Orts- und Gewässernamen der neuassyrischen Zeit (Répertoire géographique des textes cunéiformes 7/1), Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2007.

Fales, F. M., L'impero assiro, Rome: Laterza, 2001.

Holloway, S. W., 'The quest for Sargon, Pul, and Tiglath-pileser in the nineteenth century', in M. W. Chavalas and K. L. Younger, Jr. (eds.), Mesopotamia and the Bible, Comparative Explorations, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2002, 68-87. View article on Google Books [http://tinyurl.com/yzos6tz].

Kitchen, K. A., The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt (1100-650 BC), Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1986 (2nd edition).

Morkot, R. G., The Black Pharaohs: Egypt's Nubian Rulers, London: The Rubicon Press, 2000.

Oates, D., Studies in the ancient history of Northern Iraq, London: British Academy, 1968.

Oates, J. and D. Oates, Nimrud: an Assyrian imperial city revealed, London: British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 2001.

Parpola, S. and M. Porter (eds.), The Helsinki atlas of the Near East in the Neo-Assyrian period, Helsinki: Casco Bay Assyriological Institute and Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 2001.

Parpola, S. and R. Whiting (eds.), Assyria 1995, Helsinki: Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 1997.

Pillet, M., Un pionnier de l'assyriologie: Victor Place, consul de France à Mossoul, explorateur du palais de Sargon II (722-705 av. J.-C.) à Khorsabad, Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1962.

Radner, K., H. D. Baker et al., Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian empire, Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 1998-2011.

Roaf, M., Cultural atlas of Mesopotamia and the ancient Near East, Oxford: Equinox, 1990.

Saggs, H., The might that was Assyria, London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1984.

Primary sources – official inscriptions

Abraham, K. and J. Klein, 'A new Sargon II cylinder fragment from an unknown provenance', Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 97 (2007), 252-261. View article online [http://www.reference-global.com/doi/pdf/10.1515/ZA.2007.013].

Balçioğlu, B. and W. R. Mayer, 'Eine neuassyrische Votivstele aus Turlu Höyük', Orientalia 75 (2005), 177-181.

Castellino, G. R., 'Il frammento degli Annali di Sargon II', in P. E. Pecorella (ed.), Malatya III: Rapporto preliminare delle campagne 1963–1968: il livello eteo imperiale e quelli neoetei (Orientis Antiqui Collectio 12), Roma: Centro per le Antichità e la Storia dell'Arte del Vicino Oriente, 1975, 69-73.

Fadhil, A., 'Die in Nimrud/Kalhu aufgefundene Grabinschrift der Jaba', Baghdader Mitteilungen 21 (1990), 461-470.

Fales, F. M., 'Assyro-Aramaica: the Assyrian lion-weights', in K. Van Lerberghe and A. Schoors (ed.), Immigration and Emigration within the Ancient Near East: Festschrift E. Lipiński (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 65), Leuven: Peeters, 1995, 33-55. Download PDF version of article (1.1 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/fales_immigration1995.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Foster, B. R., 'The Eighth Campaign', in Before the Muses: an anthology of Akkadian literature, Bethesda MA: CDL Press, 2005, 790-813 (3rd edition).

Frame, G., 'The inscription of Sargon II at Tang-i Var', Orientalia 68 (1999), 31-57. Download PDF version of article (4 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/frame_orns68_1999_text.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]). Download PDF version of article plates (15.9 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/frame_orns68_1999_plates.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Frame, G., 'The order of the wall slabs with the Annals of Sargon II in Room V of the palace at Khorsabad', in G. Frame (ed.), From the Upper Sea to the Lower Sea: Studies in the history of Assyria and Babylonia in honour of A. K. Grayson, Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 2004, 151-164. Download PDF version of article (4.4 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/frame_fs_grayson_2004.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Frame, G., 'The Tell Acharneh stela of Sargon II of Assyria', in M. Fortin (ed.), Tell 'Acharneh 1998-2004. Rapports préliminaires sur les campagnes de fouilles et saison d'études / Preliminary reports on excavation campaigns and study season (Subartu 18), Turnhout: Brepols, 2006, 49-68. Download PDF version of article (6.2 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/frame_acharneh_2006.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Frame, G., 'A new cylinder inscription of Sargon II of Assyria from Melid', in M. Luukko, S. Svärd and R. Mattila (eds.), Of god(s), trees, kings, and scholars: Neo-Assyrian and related studies in honour of Simo Parpola (Studia Orientalia 106), Helsinki: Finnish Oriental Society, 2009, 65-82. Download PDF version of article (1.4 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/frame_fs_parpola.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Fuchs, A., Die Inschriften Sargons II. aus Khorsabad, Göttingen: Cuvillier, 1994.

Fuchs, A., Die Annalen des Jahres 711 v. Chr. nach Prismenfragmenten aus Ninive und Assur (State Archives of Assyria Studies 8), Helsinki: Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 1998.

Fuchs, A., 'Ein Inschriftenfragment Tiglatpilesers III.', in A. Ben-Tor et al. (eds.), Hayim and Miriam Tadmor Volume (Eretz-Israel 27), Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 2003, 49*-54*.

Gadd, C. J., 'Inscribed Prisms of Sargon II from Nimrud', Iraq 16 (1954), 173-201. View article on JSTOR (requires subscription) [http://www.jstor.org/stable/4199590].

Galil, G., 'A new look at the inscriptions of Tiglath-pileser III', Biblica 81 (2000), 511-520. View article online [http://www.bsw.org/project/biblica/bibl81/Ani17.html].

Hawkins, J. D., 'The new Sargon stele from Hama', in G. Frame (ed.), From the Upper Sea to the Lower Sea: Studies in the history of Assyria and Babylonia in honour of A. K. Grayson, Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 2004, 151-164. Download PDF version of article (2.7 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/hawkins_fs_grayson_2004.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Kapera, Z. J., 'The Ashdod stele of Sargon II', Folia Orientalia 17 (1976), 87-99. Download PDF version of article (3.5 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/kapera_fo_1976.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html])

Levine, L. D., Two Neo-Assyrian stelae from Iran, Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1972.

Malbran-Labat, F., 'Section 4: Inscription assyrienne (No. 4001)', in M. Yon (ed.), Kition dans les textes (Kition-Bamboula 5), Paris: Édition Recherche sur les Civilisations, 2004, 345-354.

Mayer, W., 'Sargons Feldzug gegen Urartu – 714 v. Chr.: Text und Übersetzung', Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 115 (1983), 65-132.

Saggs, H. W. F., 'Historical Texts and Fragments of Sargon II of Assyria. 1: The 'Aššur Charter'', Iraq 37 (1975), 11-20. View article on JSTOR (requires subscription) [http://www.jstor.org/stable/4200000].

Tadmor, H., 'Fragments of an Assyrian stele of Sargon II', in M. Dothan (ed.), Ashdod II-III: the second and third seasons of excavations, 1963, 1965, soundings in 1967 (Atiqot, English Series 9-10), Jerusalem: Department of Antiquities and Museums, 1971, 192-197.

Tadmor, H., The Inscriptions of Tiglath-pileser III King of Assyria, Jerusalem: Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1994.

Tadmor, H. and S. Yamada, The Royal Inscriptions of Tiglath-Pileser III (744-727 BC) and Shalmaneser V ( 726-722 BC), Kings of Assyria (Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period 1), Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2011. Browse the text editions and English translations on the RINAP website [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/].

Thureau-Dangin, F., Une relation de la huitième campagne de Sargon (714 av. J.-C.) (Textes cunéiformes du Louvre 3), Paris: Geuthner, 1912.

Tunça, O., 'Un fragment de brique inscrite néo-assyrienne provenant de Tell Amarna (Syrie)', Baghdader Mitteilungen 37 (2006), 179-184.

Primary sources – archival texts

Brinkman, J. A., 'A legal text from Babylon dated in the reign of Shalmaneser V', Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 2008, no. 8 [on NL 1]. View article online [http://sepoa.fr/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/2008-1.pdf].

Deller, K., 'Ausgewählte neuassyrische Briefe betreffend Urarṭu zur Zeit Sargons II.', in P. E. Pecorella and M. Salvini (eds.), Tra lo Zagros e l'Urmia: Ricerche storiche ed archeologiche nell'Azerbaigian iraniano (Incunabula Graeca, 78), Roma: Edizioni dell'Ateneo, 1984, 97-122.

Dietrich, M., The Neo-Babylonian Correspondence of Sargon and Sennacherib (State Archives of Assyria 17), Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 2003. Download PDF version of SAA 17 introduction (1.8 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/aebp_intro.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Fuchs, A. and S. Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part III (State Archives of Assyria 15), Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 2001. Download PDF version of SAA 15 introduction (2.3 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/aebp_intro.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Kwasman, T. and S. Parpola, Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath-pileser III through Esarhaddon (State Archives of Assyria 6), Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 1991.

Lanfranchi, G. B. and S. Parpola, The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part II (State Archives of Assyria 5), Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 1990. Download PDF version of SAA 5 introduction (1.5 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/saa5_intro.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Millard, A., The Eponyms of the Assyrian Empire 910-612 BC (State Archives of Assyria Studies 2), Helsinki: Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 1994.

Parpola, S., The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I (State Archives of Assyria 1), Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 1987. Download PDF version of SAA 1 introduction (808 KB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/aebp_intro.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Parpola, S., 'A Letter to Sennacherib Referring to the Conquest of Bīt-Hā'iri and Other Events of the Year 693', in O. Loretz et al. (eds.), Ex Mesopotamia et Syria Lux. Festschrift für Manfried Dietrich zu seinem 65. Geburtstag (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 281), Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2002, 559-580. Download PDF version of article (3.5 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/parpola_fs_dietrich_2002.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Radner, K., 'Erntearbeiter und Wein: Neuassyrische Urkunden und Briefe im Louvre', State Archives of Assyria Bulletin 11 (1997), 3-29 [copies and editions of the land sale document for the building plot of Dur-Sharruken and two of the Sargon letters].

Saggs, H. W. F., The Nimrud Letters, 1952 (Cuneiform Texts from Nimrud 5), London: British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 2001.

Van Buylaere, G., 'SAA 5, 55, and SAA 5, 61, rejoined', State Archives of Assyria Bulletin 16 (2007), 1-4.

Sargon's residence city Dur-Šarruken (Khorsabad)

Albenda, P., The palace of Sargon king of Assyria: monumental wall reliefs at Dur-Sharrukin, from original drawings made at the time of their discovery in 1843-1844 by Botta and Flandin, Paris: Éditions Recherche sur les civilisations, 1986.

Albenda, P., 'Dur-Sharrukin, the royal city of Sargon II, King of Assyria', Bulletin of the Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies 38 (2003), 5-13. Download PDF version of article (16.5 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/albenda_bcsms_38_2003.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html])

Albenda, P., 'Monument on the hill', Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 2010, no. 13 [palace reliefs in Room 7]. View article online [http://sepoa.fr/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/2010-1.pdf].

Battini, L., 'Un exemple de propagande néo-assyrienne: les défenses de Dûr-Sharrukin', Contributi e materiali di archeologia orientale 6 (1996), 215-234. Download PDF version of article (3.6 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/battini_cmao6_1996.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Battini, L., 'Les portes urbaines de la capitale de Sargon II: étude sur la propagande royale à travers les données archéologiques et textuelles', in J. Prosecký (ed.), Intellectual Life of the Ancient Near East. Papers Presented at the 43rd RAI, Prague, July 1–5, 1996, Prague: Oriental Institute, 1998, 41-55. Download PDF version of article (1.9 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/battini_crra43_1996.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Battini, L., 'Des rapports géométriques en architecture: le cas de Dur-Šarrukin', Revue d'Assyriologie et archéologie orientale 94 (2000), 33-56.

Battini, L., 'Une origine possible du nom du 'Palais sans égal' de Sargon II', Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 2002, no. 27. Download PDF version of article (80 KB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/battini_nabu2002_27.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Bjorkman, J., 'Sargon II's foundation tablets', Orientalia lovaniensia periodica 18 (1987), 87-97.

Blocher, F., 'Das Thronpodest Sargons II.', in K. Hecker et al. (eds.), Beiträge zur altorientalischen Archäologie und Altertumskunde: Festschrift für Barthel Hrouda zum 65. Geburtstag, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1994, 17-24. Download PDF version of article (9 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/blocher_fs_hrouda_1994.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Blocher, F., 'Eine Hauptstadt zieht um', Das Altertum 43 (1997), 21-43.

Blocher, F., 'Der Thronsaal Sargons II.: Gestalt und Schicksal', Altorientalische Forschungen 26 (1999), 223-250.

Botta, P.-É., and E. Flandin, Monument de Ninive, vol. 1-2, Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1849-50.

Caubet, A. (ed.), Khorsabad, le palais de Sargon II, roi d'Assyrie, Paris: Documentation française, 1995.

Fontan, E. (ed.), De Khorsabad à Paris: la découverte des Assyriens, Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1994.

Franklin, N., 'The Room V reliefs at Dur-Sharrukin and Sargon II's western campaigns', Tel Aviv 21 (1994), 255-275. View article on IngentaConnect (requires subscription) [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/tav/1994/00000021/00000002/art00006].

Gillmann, N., 'Le bâtiment isolé de Khorsabad: une nouvelle tentative de reconstitution', Iraq 70 (2008), 41-50.

Guralnick, E., 'New drawings of Khorsabad sculptures by Paul Émile Botta', Revue d'Assyriologie et archéologie orientale 95 (2002), 23-56. View article on CAIRNS [http://www.cairn.info/revue-d-assyriologie-2002-1.htm].

Kose, A., 'Die Wendelrampe der Ziqqurrat von Dur-Šarrukin: keine Phantasie vom Zeichentisch', Baghdader Mitteilungen 30 (1999), 115-137. Download PDF version of article (5.1 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/kose_BaM30_1999.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Loud, G., Khorsabad, Part 1: Excavations in the Palace and at a City Gate (Oriental Institute Publications 38), Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1936. View book online [http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/catalog/oip/oip38.html].

Loud, G. and C. B. Altman, Khorsabad, Part 2: The Citadel and the Town (Oriental Institute Publications 40), Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1938. View book online [http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/catalog/oip/oip40.html].

Reade, J. E., 'Sargon's campaigns of 720, 716, and 715 BC: evidence from the sculptures', Journal of Near Eastern Studies 35 (1976), 95-104. View article on JSTOR (requires subscription) [http://www.jstor.org/stable/545194].

Russell, J. M., The writing on the wall: studies in the architectural context of Late Assyrian palace inscriptions (Mesopotamian Civilizations, 9), Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1999. Preview book on Google Books [http://tinyurl.com/y9h32ry].

The queens' tombs at Kalhu (Nimrud) and other archaeological remains

Barnett, R. D. and M. Falkner, The sculptures of Aššur-naṣir-apli II (883–859 B.C.), Tiglath-Pileser III (745–727 B.C.) and Esarhaddon (681–669 B.C.) from the Central and South-West Palaces at Nimrud, London: British Museum, 1962.

Curtis, J. E. et al. (eds.), New light on Nimrud: proceedings of the Nimrud Conference, 11th-13th March 2002, London: British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 2008 [most contributions].

Damerji, M. S. B., Gräber assyrischer Königinnen aus Nimrud, Mainz: Zabern, 1999.

Hussein, M. M. and A. Suleiman, Nimrud: a city of golden treasures, Baghdad: Al-Huriyah, 1999/2000.

Mallowan, M. E. L., 'The Excavations at Nimrud (Kalhu), 1952', Iraq 15 (1953), 1-42. View article on JSTOR (requires subscription) [http://www.jstor.org/stable/4199564].

Postgate, J. N., and J. E. Reade, 'Kalhu', in D. O. Edzard et al. (eds.), Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie 5, Berlin: de Gruyter, 1977-80, 303-323.

Reade, J. E., 'Ninive (Nineveh)', in D. O. Edzard et al. (eds.), Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie 9, Berlin: de Gruyter, 1998-2001, 388-433 (especially §17.4).

Weidner, E. F., 'Assyrische Emailgemälde vom Achten Feldzug Sargons II.', Archiv für Orientforschung 3 (1926), 1-6 [from the Aššur temple at Assur]. Download PDF version of article (716 KB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/weidner_AfO_3_1926.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

On kings and queens

Baker, H. D., 'Salmanassar V.', in M. P. Streck et al. (eds.), Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie 11/7-8, Berlin: de Gruyter, 2008, 585-587. Download PDF version of article (728 KB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/baker_rla2008.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html])

Dalley, S., 'Yabâ, Atalya and the foreign policy of Late Assyrian kings', State Archives of Assyria Bulletin 12 (1998), 83-98.

Dalley, S., 'Recent evidence from Assyrian sources for Judean history from Uzziah to Manasseh', Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 28 (2004), 387-401. View article on SAGE journals online (requires subscription) [http://jot.sagepub.com/content/vol28/issue4/].

Dalley, S., 'The identity of the princesses in Tomb II and a new analysis of events in 701 BC', in J. E. Curtis et al. (eds.), New light on Nimrud: proceedings of the Nimrud Conference, 11th-13th March 2002, London: British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 2008, 171-175.

Fales, F. M., 'Tiglat-pileser III tra annalistica reale ed epistolografia quotidiana', in F. Pecchioli Daddi and M. C. Guidotti (eds.), Narrare gli eventi: Atti del convegno degli egittologi e degli orientalisti italiani in margine alla mostra "La battaglia di Qadesh" (Studia Asiana 3), Roma: Herder, 2005, 163-191. Download PDF version of article (21.8 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/fales_narrare_gli_eventi2005.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Frahm, E., 'Nabû-zuqup-kenu, das Gilgameš-Epos und der Tod Sargons II.', Journal of Cuneiform Studies 51 (1999), 73-90. View article on JSTOR (requires subscription) [http://www.jstor.org/stable/1359731].

Frahm, E., 'Nabû-zuqup-kenu, Gilgamesh XII, and the Rites of Du'uzu', Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 2005, no. 5 [death of Sargon II]. Download PDF version of article (340 KB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/frahm_nabu2005_5.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Frahm, E., 'Observations on the name and age of Sargon II, and on some patterns of Assyrian royal onomastics', Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 2005, no. 44. Download PDF version of article (748 KB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/frahm_nabu2005_44.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Fuchs, A., 'Sargon II.', in M. P. Streck et al. (eds.), Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie 12/1-2, Berlin: de Gruyter, 2009, 51-61.

Galter, H. D., 'Sargon der Zweite: Über die Wiederinszenierung von Geschichte', in R. Rollinger and B. Truschnegg (eds.), Altertum und Mittelmeerraum: Die antike Welt diesseits und jenseits der Levante. Festschrift für Peter W. Haider zum 60. Geburtstag (Oriens et Occidens 12), Stuttgart: Steiner, 2006, 279-302. Download PDF version of article (2.6 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/galter_fs_haider_2006.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]). View parts of article on Google Books [http://tinyurl.com/yl5woqf].

Müller-Karpe, M., M. Kunter and M. Schultz, 'Results of the paleopathological investigations on the royal skeletons from Nimrud', in J. E. Curtis et al. (eds.), New light on Nimrud: proceedings of the Nimrud Conference, 11th-13th March 2002, London: British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 2008, 141-148.

Na'aman, N., 'Eloulaios/Ululaiu in Josephus, Antiquities IX, 284', Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 2006, no. 6 [on Shalmaneser V]. View article online [http://sepoa.fr/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/2006-1.pdf].

Radner, K., 'Salmanassar V. in den Nimrud Letters', Archiv für Orientforschung 50 (2003/04), 95-104. Download PDF version of article (1.9 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/radner_afo50_2004.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Thomas, F., 'Sargon II., der Sohn Tiglat-pilesers III.', in M. Dietrich and O. Loretz (eds), Mesopotamica - Ugaritica - Biblica. Festschrift für Kurt Bergerhof (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 232), Kevelaer: Butzon & Bercker; Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1993, 465-470.

Vera Chamaza, G. W., 'Sargon II's ascent to the throne: the political situation', State Archives of Assyria Bulletin 6 (1992), 21-33. View article online [http://www.helsinki.fi/science/saa/6.1%2002%20Chamaza.pdf].

Zawadzki, S., 'The revolt of 746 BC and the coming of Tiglath-pileser III to the throne', State Archives of Assyria Bulletin 8 (1994), 53-54. View article online [http://www.helsinki.fi/science/saa/8.1%2006%20Zawadzki.pdf].

Inside the empire

Fales, F. M., 'Central Syria in the letters to Sargon II', in U. Hübner and E. A. Knauf (eds.), Kein Land für sich allein: Studien zum Kulturkontakt in Kanaan, Israel/Palästina und Ebirnâri für Manfred Weippert zum 65. Geburtstag (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 186), Fribourg and Göttingen: University Press Fribourg and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2002, 134-152. Download PDF version of article (1.8 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/fales_fs_weippert2002.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Fales, F. M., 'Cibare i deportati: Una lettera al re assiro Tiglath-pileser III (ND 2634)', in D. Morandi Bonacossi et al. (eds.), Tra Oriente e Occidente. Studi in onore di Elena Di Filippo Balestrazzi, Padova: Sargon srl, 2006, 47-64. Download PDF version of article (7.4 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/fales_fs_balestrazzi2006.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Fales, F. M., 'On Pax Assyriaca in the Eight-Seventh Century BC and Its Implications', in R. Cohen and R. Westbrook (eds.), Swords into Plowshares: Isaiah's Vision of Peace in Biblical and Modern International Relations, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, 18-35. Download PDF version of article (6.4 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/fales_isaiahs_vision2008.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Fuchs, A., 'Waren die Assyrer grausam?', in M. Zimmermann (ed.), Extreme Formen von Gewalt in Bild und Text des Altertums (Münchner Studien zur Alten Welt 5), Munich: Herbert Utz, 2009, 65-119. Download PDF version of article (1.1 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/fuchs-extreme-formen-von-gewalt-2009.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Gallagher, W. R., 'Assyrian deportation propaganda', State Archives of Assyria Bulletin 8 (1994), 57-65. View article online [http://www.helsinki.fi/science/saa/8.2%2001%20Gallagher.pdf ].

Garelli, P., 'The achievement of Tiglath-pileser III: novelty or continuity?', in M. Cogan and I. Eph'al (eds.), Ah, Assyria... Studies in Assyrian History and Ancient Near Eastern Historiography Presented to Hayim Tadmor, Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1991, 46-51.

Kessler, K., 'Der Bau der Stadtmauer von Me-Turan unter Sargon II.', Archiv für Orientforschung 50 (2003/4), 105-110.

Lanfranchi, G. B., 'Sargon's letter to Aššur-šarru-usur: an interpretation', State Archives of Assyria Bulletin 2 (1988), 59-64. View article online [http://www.helsinki.fi/science/saa/2.1%2004%20Lanfranchi.pdf ].

Luukko, M., 'The administrative roles of the "Chief Scribe" and the "Palace Scribe" in the Neo-Assyrian period', State Archives of Assyria Bulletin 16 (2007), 227-256.

Mattila, R., The king's magnates: a study of the highest officials of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (State Archives of Assyria Studies 11), Helsinki: Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 2000.

Na'aman, N., 'The number of deportees from Samaria in the Nimrud Prisms of Sargon II', Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 2000, no. 1. View article online [http://sepoa.fr/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/2000-1.pdf].

Na'aman, N. and R. Zadok, 'Sargon II's deportations to Israel and Philistia (716-708 BC)', Journal of Cuneiform Studies 40 (1988), 36-46. View article on JSTOR (requires subscription) [http://www.jstor.org/stable/1359705].

Olmstead, A. T., 'Assyrian government of dependencies', The American Political Science Review 12 (1918), 63-77. View article on JSTOR (requires subscription) [http://www.jstor.org/stable/1946342].

Parker, B. J., The mechanics of empire: the northern frontier of Assyria as a case study in imperial dynamics. Helsinki: Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 2001.

Parker, B. J., 'At the edge of empire: conceptualizing Assyria's Anatolian frontier ca. 700 BC', Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 21 (2002), 371-395. View article online [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0278-4165(02)00005-3].

Parker, B. J., 'Ašipâ again: a microhistory of an Assyrian provincial administrator', in M. Luukko, S. Svärd and R. Mattila (eds.), Of god(s), trees, kings, and scholars: Neo-Assyrian and related studies in honour of Simo Parpola (Studia Orientalia 106), Helsinki: Finnish Oriental Society, 2009, 179-192. Download PDF version of article (1.3 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/parker_fs_parpola.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Parpola, S., 'The construction of Dur-Šarrukin in the Assyrian royal correspondence', in A. Caubet (ed.), Khorsabad, le palais de Sargon II, roi d'Assyrie, Paris: Documentation française, 1995, 47-77. Download PDF version of article (2.7 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/parpola_khorsabad_1995.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Parpola, S., 'The man without a scribe and the question of literacy in the Assyrian empire', in B. Pongratz-Leisten et al. (eds.), Ana šadî Labnāni lū allik: Festschrift für Wolfgang Röllig (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 247), Kevelaer: Butzon & Bercker; Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1997, 315-324. Download PDF version of article (1 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/parpola_aoat247.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Postgate, J. N., 'The Land of Assur and the Yoke of Assur', World Archaeology 23 (1992), 247-263. View article on JSTOR (requires subscription) [http://www.jstor.org/stable/124761].

Postgate, J. N., 'The invisible hierarchy: Assyrian military and civilian administration in the 8th and 7th centuries BC', in J. N. Postgate, The Land of Assur & the Yoke of Assur: Studies on Assyria, 1971-2005, Oxford: Oxbow Press, 2007, 331-360. Download PDF version of article (4 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/postgate_invisible_hierarchy.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Postgate, J. N. and R. Mattila, 'Il-yada' and Sargon's southeast frontier', in G. Frame (ed.), From the Upper Sea to the Lower Sea: Studies in the history of Assyria and Babylonia in honour of A. K. Grayson, Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 2004, 235-254. Download PDF version of article (3.1 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/postgate_and_mattila_fs_grayson_2004.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Radner, K., 'Fressen und gefressen werden: Heuschrecken als Katastrophe und Delikatesse im Alten Orient', Die Welt des Orients 34 (2004), 7-22 [locust plague in Assyria, c. 710 BC]. Download PDF version of article (2.6 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/radner_wdo34_2004.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Radner, K., 'Assur-dur-paniya, Statthalter von Til-Barsip unter Sargon II.', Baghdader Mitteilungen 36 (2006), 185-195. Download PDF version of article (328 KB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/radner_bam37_2006.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Radner, K., 'Provinz: Assyrien', in M. P. Streck et al. (eds.), Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie 11/1-2, Berlin: de Gruyter, 2006, 42-68. Download PDF version of article (5.4 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/radner_ria11_2006.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Radner, K., 'Abgaben an den König von Assyrien aus dem In- und Ausland', in H. Klinkott et al. (eds.), Geschenke und Steuern, Zölle und Tribute: Antike Abgabenformen in Anspruch und Wirklichkeit, Leiden: Brill, 2007, 213-230. Download PDF version of article (840 KB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/radner_geschenke_2007.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Radner, K., 'The delegation of power: Neo-Assyrian bureau seals', in P. Briant et al. (eds.), L'archive des Fortifications de Persépolis: État des questions et perspectives de recherches (Persika 12), Paris: de Boccard, 2008, 481-515. Download PDF version of article (600 KB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/radner_persika12_2008.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Radner, K., 'Royal decision-making: kings, magnates, and scholars', in K. Radner and E. Robson (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture, Oxford: OUP, 2011, 358-379. Download PDF version of article (13.4 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/radner_ohcc_2011.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Radner, K., 'The Assur-Nineveh-Arbela triangle: Central Assyria in the Neo-Assyrian period', in P. Miglus and S. Mühl (eds.), Between the Cultures: The Central Tigris Region in Mesopotamia from the 3rd to the 1st Millennium BC (Heidelberger Studien zum Alten Orient 14), Heidelberg: Heidelberger Orient-Verlag, 2011, 321-329. Download PDF version of article (2.2 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/radner_hsao14_2011.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Yamada, S., 'Qurdi-Assur-lamur: his letters and career', in M. Cogan and D. Kahn (eds.), Treasures on Camels' Humps: Historical and Literary Studies from the Ancient Near East Presented to Israel Ephʻal, Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2008, 296-311.

Foreign policy

Brinkman, J. A., 'Merodach-baladan II', in R. D. Biggs and J. A. Brinkman (eds.), From the Workshop of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary: Studies Presented to A. Leo Oppenheim, June 7, 1964, Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1964, 6-53.

Dezsö, T., 'Šubria and the Assyrian empire', Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 46 (2006), 33-38. View article online via Swetswise (requires subscription) [http://www.swetswise.com/eAccess/viewFulltext.do?articleID=30230125]

Dubovský, P., 'Conquest and reconquest of Muṣaṣir in the 8th century BCE', State Archives of Assyria Bulletin 15 (2006), 141-146.

Dubovský, P., Hezekiah and the Assyrian spies: reconstruction of the Neo-Assyrian intelligence services and its significance for 2 Kings 18-19 (Biblica et orientalia 49), Rome: Pontificio Istituto Biblico, 2006. Preview book on Google Books [http://tinyurl.com/ybwcugm].

Elayi, A. and A. Cavignaux, 'Sargon II et les Ioniens', Oriens Antiquus 18 (1979), 59-75.

Fales, F. M., '"To speak kindly to him/them" as item of Assyrian political discourse', in M. Luukko, S. Svärd and R. Mattila (eds.), Of god(s), trees, kings, and scholars: Neo-Assyrian and related studies in honour of Simo Parpola (Studia Orientalia 106), Helsinki: Finnish Oriental Society, 2009, 27-39. Download PDF version of article (1.3 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/fales_fs_parpola.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Fales, F. M., 'Moving around Babylon: On the Aramean and Chaldean Presence in Southern Mesopotamia', in E. Cancik-Kirschbaum, M. van Ess and J. Marzahn (eds.), Babylon: Wissenskultur in Orient und Okzident, Berlin: de Gruyter, 2011, 91-112. Download PDF version of article (152 KB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/fales_babylon2011.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Frame, G., 'Babylon: Assyria's problem and Assyria's prize', Journal of the Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies 3 (2008), 21-31. Download PDF version of article (1.6 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/frame_jcsms3.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html])

Galil, G., 'Conflicts between Assyrian Vassals', State Archives of Assyria Bulletin 6 (1992), 55-63. View article online [http://www.helsinki.fi/science/saa/6.1%2006%20Galil.pdf].

Lanfranchi, G. B., 'Consensus to empire: some aspects of Sargon II's foreign policy', in H. Waetzoldt und H. Hauptmann (eds.), Assyrien im Wandel der Zeiten (Heidelberger Studien zum Alten Orient 6), Heidelberg: Heidelberger Orientverlag, 1997, 81-87. Download PDF version of article (1.5 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/lanfranchi_hsao6_1997.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Lanfranchi, G. B., 'The ideological and political impact of the Assyrian imperial expansion on the Greek world in the 8th and 7th centuries BC', in S. Aro and R. M. Whiting (eds.), Heirs of Assyria (Melammu Symposia 1), Helsinki: Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 2000, 7-34. View article online [http://www.aakkl.helsinki.fi/melammu/pdf/lanfranchi2000.pdf].

Lanfranchi, G., 'A happy son of the king of Assyria: Warikas and the Çineköy bilingual (Cilicia)', in M. Luukko, S. Svärd and R. Mattila (eds.), Of god(s), trees, kings, and scholars: Neo-Assyrian and related studies in honour of Simo Parpola (Studia Orientalia 106), Helsinki: Finnish Oriental Society, 2009, 127-150. Download PDF version of article (1.3 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/lanfranchi_fs_parpola.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Luukko, M., 'How could the Assyrian king enter Babylon conciliatorily?', Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 2007, no. 71 [Tiglatpileser III in Babylon]. View article online [http://sepoa.fr/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/2007-4.pdf].

Muscarella, O. W., 'Relations between Phrygia and Assyria in the 8th Century B.C.', in XXIV. Uluslararası Assiriyoloji Kongresi, 6–10/VII/1987 - Istanbul, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, 1998, 149-157.

Na'aman, N., 'The historical portion of Sargon II's Nimrud Inscription', State Archives of Assyria Bulletin 8 (1994), 17-20 [reprinted in N. Na'aman, Ancient Israel and its neighbors: interaction and counteraction (Collected essays, vol. 1), Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2005, 94-97]. View article online [http://www.helsinki.fi/science/saa/8.1%2003%20Na'aman.pdf].

Na'aman, N., 'Tiglath-pileser III's campaigns against Tyre and Israel (734-732 B.C.E.)', Tel Aviv 22 (1995), 268-278 [reprinted in N. Na'aman, Ancient Israel and its neighbors: interaction and counteraction (Collected essays, vol. 1), Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2005, 56-67]. View article on SAGE journals online (requires subscription) [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/tav/1995/00000022/00000002/art00004]. View article on Google Books [http://tinyurl.com/yfcmefd].

Na'aman, N., 'Sargon II and the rebellion of the Cypriote kings against Shilta of Tyre', Orientalia 67 (1998), 239-247 [reprinted in N. Na'aman, Ancient Israel and its neighbors: interaction and counteraction (Collected essays, vol. 1), Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2005, 118-128]. View article on Google Books [http://tinyurl.com/yfcmefd].

Na'aman, N., 'Siruatti the Me'unite in a second inscription of Tiglath-pileser III', Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 1997, no. 150. View article online [http://sepoa.fr/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/1997-4.pdf].

Na'aman, N., 'Tiglath-pileser III's annexations according to the Iran Stele (II B)', Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 1998, no. 14. View article online [http://sepoa.fr/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/1998-1.pdf].

Na'aman, N., 'Šapataku of Meluhha in a second inscription of Sargon II', Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 1999, no. 65. View article online [http://sepoa.fr/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/1999-3.pdf].

Na'aman, N., 'Sargon II's second palû according to the Khorsabad Annals', Tel Aviv 34 (2007), 165-170. View article on IngentaConnect (requires subscription) [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/tav/2007/00000034/00000002/art00003].

Na'aman, N., 'The conquest of Yadnana according to the inscriptions of Sargon II', in T. Abusch et al. (eds.), Historiography in the Cuneiform World, Bethesda: CDL Press, 2001, 357-363 [reprinted in N. Na'aman, Ancient Israel and its neighbors: interaction and counteraction (Collected essays, vol. 1), Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2005, 129-134]. View article on Google Books [http://tinyurl.com/yfcmefd].

Parpola, S., 'Assyria's expansion in the 8th and 7th centuries and its long-term repercussions in the west', in W. G. Dever and S. Gitin (eds), Symbiosis, symbolism, and the power of the Past: Canaan, Ancient Israel, and their neighbors from the Late Bronze Age through Roman Palaestina, Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2003, 99-111. Download PDF version of article (1.6 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/parpola_symbiosis_2003.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Radner, K., 'An Assyrian view on the Medes', in G. B. Lanfranchi et al. (eds.), Continuity of Empire (?): Assyria, Media, Persia (History of the Ancient Near East Monographs 5), Padova: Sargon, 2003, 37-64. Download PDF version of article (332 KB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/radner_medes_2003.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]). Download PDF version of article bibliography (404 KB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/radner_medes_2003_bibliography.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Radner, K., 'Assyrische Handelspolitik: Die Symbiose mit unabhängigen Handelszentren und ihre Kontrolle durch Assyrien', in R. Rollinger and C. Ulf (eds.), Commerce and Monetary Systems in the Ancient World: Means of Transmission and Cultural Interaction (Melammu Symposia 5 = Oriens et Occidens 6), Stuttgart: Steiner, 2004, 152-69. View article online [http://www.aakkl.helsinki.fi/melammu/bibliography/bibllib.php].

Radner, K., 'The stele of Sargon II of Assyria at Kition: a focus for an emerging Cypriot identity?', in R. Rollinger, B. Gufler, M. Lang and I. Madreiter (eds.), Interkulturalität in der Alten Welt: Vorderasien, Hellas, Ägypten und die vielfältigen Ebenen des Kontakts (Philippika 34), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2010, 429-449. Download PDF version of article (9.2 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/radner_philippika34_2010.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Radner, K., 'Assyrians and Urartians', in S. R. Steadman and G. McMahon (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia Oxford: OUP, 2011, 734-751. Download PDF version of article (1.1 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/radner_ohaa_2011.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

von Dassow, E., 'On writing the history of southern Mesopotamia', Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und vorderasiatische Archäologie 89 (1999), 227-246. Download PDF version of article (5.9 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/von_dassow_za89.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Younger, K. L. Jr., 'Sargon's campaign against Jerusalem: A further note', Biblica 77 (1996), 108-110.

Younger, K. L. Jr., 'Recent study on Sargon II, king of Assyria: implications for Biblical studies', in M. W. Chavalas and K. L. Younger, Jr. (eds.), Mesopotamia and the Bible: Comparative explorations, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2002, 288-329. View parts of article on Google Books [http://tinyurl.com/yc7o5ud].

Zamazalová, S., 'Before the Assyrian Conquest in 671 B.C.E: Relations between Egypt, Kush and Assyria', in J. Mynářová (ed.), Egypt and the Near East - the Crossroads: Proceedings of an International Conference on the Relations of Egypt and the Near East in the Bronze Age, Prague, September 1-3, 2010, Prague: Charles University, 2011, 297-328. Download PDF version of article (2.2 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/zamazalova_crossroads.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Zawadzki, S., 'Hostages in Assyrian Royal Inscriptions', in K. Van Lerberghe and A. Schoors (eds.), Immigration and Emigration within the Ancient Near East: Festschrift E. Lipinski (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 65), Leuven: Peeters, 1995, 449-458.

Geographical and chronological studies

Dubovský, P., 'Tiglath-pileser III's campaigns in 734-732 B.C.: Historical background of Isa 7; 2 Kgs 15-16 and 2 Chr 27-28', Biblica 87 (2006), 153-170. View article online [http://www.biblicalstudies.ru/OT/Dubovsky.pdf].

Jakubiak, K., 'Some remarks on Sargon II's Eighth Campaign of 714 BC', Iranica antiqua 39 (2004), 191-202. View article online (requires subscription) [http://poj.peeters-leuven.be.libproxy.ucl.ac.uk/content.php?url=issue&journal_code=IA&issue=0&vol=39].

Kahn, D., 'The inscription of Sargon II at Tang-i Var and the chronology of Dynasty 25', Orientalia 70 (2001), 1-18. Download PDF version of article (24 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/kahn_OrNS_70_2001.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Lanfranchi, G. B., 'Assyrian geography and Neo-Assyrian letters: the location of Hubuškia again', in M. Liverani (ed.), Neo-Assyrian Geography (Quaderni di geografia storica 5), Rome: Università di Roma 'La Sapienza', 1995, 127-137. Download PDF version of article (1.8 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/lanfranchi_assyrian_geography_1995.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Levine, L. D., 'Sargon's Eighth Campaign', in L. D. Levine and T. C. Young (eds.), Mountains and Lowlands: Essays in the Archaeology of Greater Mesopotamia (Bibliotheca Mesopotamica 7), Malibu: Undena, 1977, 135-151.

Mayer, W., 'Die chronologische Einordnung der Kimmerier-Briefe aus der Zeit Sargons II', in M. Dietrich and O. Loretz (eds.), Mesopotamica - Ugaritica - Biblica. Festschrift K. Bergerhof (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 232), Kevelaer: Butzon & Bercker; Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1993, 145-176. Download PDF version of article (7.1 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/mayer_fs_bergerhof_1993.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Na'aman, N., 'Damascus, Hatarikka and Simirra in Tiglath-pileser III's Summary Inscriptions', Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 2001, no. 24. View article online [http://sepoa.fr/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/2001-2.pdf].

Na'aman, N., 'Borders and districts in descriptions of the conquest of the west in Tiglath-pileser III's inscriptions and in Biblical historiography', State Archives of Assyria Bulletin 16 (2007), 39-61.

Na'aman, N., 'The district of Hasuat(t)i', Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 2007, no. 2. View article online [http://sepoa.fr/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/2007-1.pdf].

Radner, K., 'Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Muṣaṣir, Kumme, Ukku and Šubria - the Buffer States between Assyria and Urarṭu', in S. Kroll et al. (eds.), Urartu-Bianili: The Proceedings of the Symposium held in Munich 12-14 October 2007 (Acta Iranica 51), Leuven: Peeters, 2012, 243-264. Download PDF version of article (2.3 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/radner_acta_iranica_51_2012.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Redford, D. B., 'A note on the chronology of Dynasty 25 and the inscription of Sargon II at Tang-i Var', Orientalia 68 (1999), 58-60.

Tadmor, H., 'The campaigns of Sargon II of Assur: a chronological-historical study', Journal of Cuneiform Studies 12 (1958), 22-40. View article on JSTOR (requires subscription) [http://www.jstor.org/stable/1359580].

Tadmor, H., 'Philistia Under Assyrian Rule', The Biblical Archaeologist 29 (1966), 86-102. View article on JSTOR (requires subscription) [http://www.jstor.org/stable/3211004].

Vera Chamaza, G. W., 'Der VIII. Feldzug Sargons II.: Eine Untersuchung zu Politik und historischer Geographie des späten 8. Jhs. v. Chr. (Teil I)', Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran 27 (1994), 91-118.

Vera Chamaza, G. W., 'Der VIII. Feldzug Sargons II.: Eine Untersuchung zu Politik und historischer Geographie des späten 8. Jhs. v. Chr. (Teil II)', Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran 28 (1995-96), 235-267.

Yamada, Sh., 'The city of Togarma in Neo-Assyrian sources', Altorientalische Forschungen 33 (2006), 223-236 [on Til-Garimmu, site of Sargon's death].

Zadok, R., 'On the extent of Sargon II's sixth campaign in Media', Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 2000, no. 5. View article online [http://sepoa.fr/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/2000-1.pdf].

Zimansky, P. E., 'Urartian geography and Sargon's Eighth Campaign', Journal of Near Eastern Studies 49 (1990), 1-21. View article on JSTOR (requires subscription) [http://www.jstor.org/stable/544405].

Studies on military history

Archer, R., 'Chariotry to cavalry: developments in the early first millennium', in G. G. Fagan and M. Trundle (eds.), New Perspectives on Ancient Warfare, Leiden: Brill, 2010, 57-80. Download PDF version of article (756 KB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/archer_ancient_warfare_2010.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Dalley, S., 'Foreign chariotry and cavalry in the armies of Tiglath-Pileser III and Sargon II', Iraq 47 (1985), 31-48. View article on JSTOR (requires subscription) [http://www.jstor.org/stable/4200230].

Dezsö, T., 'Reconstruction of the Assyrian army of Sargon II (721-705 BC) based on the Nimrud Horse Lists', State Archives of Assyria Bulletin 15 (2006), 93-140.

Dezsö, T., 'The reconstruction of the Neo-Assyrian army (as depicted on the Assyrian palace reliefs, 745-612 BC)', Acta Archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 57 (2006), 87-130 View article online (requires subscription) [https://commerce.metapress.com/content/vr27513w40400717/resource-secured/?target=fulltext.pdf&sid=a2nqab45msemxm45v2roav21&sh=www.akademiai.com].

Dubovský, P., 'Neo-Assyrian warfare: logistics and weaponry during the campaigns of Tiglath-pileser III', Anodos: Studies of the Ancient World 4-5 (2004/05), 61-67.

Ephʿal, I., The city besieged: siege and its manifestations in the ancient Near East, Leiden: Brill, 2009. View e-book (requires subscription) [http://ebooks.brillonline.nl/book?id=nij9789004174108_nij9789004174108_i-214].

Fuchs, A., 'War das Neuassyrische Reich ein Militärstaat?', in B. Meißner et al. (eds.), Krieg – Gesellschaft – Institutionen: Beiträge zu einer vergleichenden Kriegsgeschichte, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 2005, 35-60. Download PDF version of article (1.4 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/fuchs_krieg_gesellschaft_institutionen_2005.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Fuchs, A., 'Assyria at war: strategy and conduct', in K. Radner and E. Robson (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture, Oxford: OUP, 2011, 380-401. Download PDF version of article (9.3 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/fuchs_ohcc_2011.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Heidorn, L. A., 'The Horses of Kush', Journal of Near Eastern Studies 56 (1997), 105-114. View article on JSTOR (requires subscription) [http://www.jstor.org/stable/545752].

Kaplan, Y., 'Recruitment of foreign soldiers into the Neo-Assyrian army during the reign of Tiglath-pileser III', in M. Cogan and D. Kahn (eds.), Treasures on Camels' Humps: Historical and Literary Studies from the Ancient Near East Presented to Israel Ephʻal, Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2008, 135-152.

Mayer, W., 'Die Finanzierung einer Kampagne (TCL 3, 346-410)', Ugarit-Forschungen 11 (1979), 571-595.

Mayer, W., 'Sargons Feldzug gegen Urartu – 714 v. Chr: Eine militärhistorische Würdigung', Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 112 (1980), 13-33.

Nadali, D., 'Sieges and similes of sieges in the royal annals: the conquest of Damascus by Tiglath-Pileser III', Kaskal: Rivista di storia, ambienti e culture del Vicino Oriente Antico 6 (2009), 137-150. Download PDF version of article (816 KB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/nadali_kaskal6_2009.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Parker, B. J., 'Garrisoning the empire: aspects of the construction and maintenance of forts on the Assyrian frontier', Iraq 59 (1997), 77-87. View article on JSTOR (requires subscription) [http://www.jstor.org/stable/4200438].

Postgate, J. N., 'Assyrian uniforms', in W. H. van Soldt (ed.), Veenhof Anniversary Volume: Studies presented to Klaas R. Veenhof, Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 2001, 373-388 [reprinted in J. N. Postgate, The Land of Assur & the Yoke of Assur: Studies on Assyria, 1971-2005, Oxford: Oxbow Press, 2007, 287–302]. Download PDF version of article (2 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/postgate_fs_veenhof_2001.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Postgate, J. N., 'The Assyrian army in Zamua', Iraq 62 (2000), 89-108. View article on JSTOR (requires subscription) [http://www.jstor.org/stable/4200483].

Radner, K., 'Fame and prizes: competition and war in the Neo-Assyrian empire', in N. Fisher and H. van Wees (eds.), Competition in the Ancient World, Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, 2011, 37-57. Download PDF version of article (3.6 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/radner_competition_2011.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Historical studies on ideology and religion

Fales, F. M. and G. B. Lanfranchi, 'The impact of oracular materials on the political utterances and political actions of the Sargonid dynasty', in J.-G. Heintz (ed.), Oracles et prophéties dans l'antiquité, Paris: de Boccard, 1997, 99-114. Download PDF version of article (1.1 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/fales_lanfranchi_oracles1997.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Garelli, P., 'Réflexions sur 'Le Péché de Sargon'', in S. Graziani (ed.), Studi sul Vicino Oriente antico dedicati alla memoria di Luigi Cagni, vol. 1, Napoli: Istituto universitario orientale, 2000, 341-344.

Holloway, S. W., 'Sargon II and his redactors repair Eanna of Uruk', Biblical Research 43 (1998), 22-49.

Jungfleisch, J., 'Feste als Propagandamittel? Zu den Funktionen von Festen in der neuassyrischen Zeit', Ethnographisch-archäologische Zeitschrift 47 (2006), 521-540.

Kravitz, K. F., 'A last-minute revision to Sargon's Letter to the God', Journal of Near Eastern Studies 62 (2003), 81-95. View article on JSTOR (requires subscription) [http://www.jstor.org/stable/3129017].

Levine, L. D., 'Observations on 'Sargon's Letter to the Gods'', in A. Ben-Tor et al. (eds.), Hayim and Miriam Tadmor Volume (Eretz-Israel 27), Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 2003, 111*-119*.

Maul, S. M., 'Der assyrische König: Hüter der Weltordnung', in K. Watanabe (ed.), Priests and Officials in the Ancient Near East, Heidelberg: Winter, 1999, 201-214.

Morenz, L. D., 'Bild-poetische Umsetzungen von Personennamen: Sargon II. und Aššur-šarrat', Altorientalische Forschungen 30 (2003), 18-27 [NB: Libbali-šarrat, not Aššur-šarrat].

Niederreiter, Z., 'L'insigne de pouvoir et le sceau du grand vizir Sîn-ah-uṣur', Revue d'Assyriologie 99 (2005), 57-76. View article online (requires subscription) [http://www.cairn.info/revue-d-assyriologie-2005-1.htm].

Oppenheim, A. L., 'The City of Assur in 714 B. C.', Journal of Near Eastern Studies 19 (1960), 133-147. View article on JSTOR (requires subscription) [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-2968%28196004%2919%3A2%3C133%3ATCOAI7%3E2.0.CO%3B2-8].

Radner, K., 'How did the Neo-Assyrian king perceive his land and its resources?', in R. M. Jas (ed.), Rainfall and agriculture in Northern Mesopotamia, Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 2000, 233-246. Download PDF version of article (2.1 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/radner_mos3_2000.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Rollinger, R., 'Das altorientalische Weltbild und der ferne Westen in neuassyrischer Zeit', in P. Mauritsch et al. (eds.), Antike Lebenswelten: Konstanz – Wandel – Wirkungsmacht: Festschrift für Ingomar Weiler zum 70. Geburtstag (Philippika 25), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2008, 683-695. View article online [http://www.aakkl.helsinki.fi/melammu/pdf/rollinger2008.pdf].

Tadmor, H., B. Landsberger and S. Parpola, 'The Sin of Sargon and Sennacherib's Last Will', State Archives of Assyria Bulletin 3 (1989), 3-51. View article online [http://www.helsinki.fi/science/saa/3.1%2001%20Tadmor,%20Landsberger%20&%20Parpola.pdf].

Tadmor, H., 'World dominion: the expanding horizon of the Assyrian Empire', in L. Milano et al. (eds.), Landscapes: Territories, Frontiers and Horizons in the Ancient Near East, Part 1 (History of the Ancient Near East / Monographs 3/1), Padova: s.a.r.g.o.n, 1999, 55-62.

Uehlinger, C., '"... und wo sind die Götter von Samarien?": Die Wegführung syrisch-palästinischer Kultstatuen auf einem Relief Sargons II. in Horṣābād/Dūr-Šarrukīn', in M. Dietrich and I. Kottsieper (eds.), Und Mose schrieb dieses Lied auf: Studien zum Alten Testament und zum Alten Orient. Festschrift für Oswald Loretz (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 250), Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 1998, 739-776. Download PDF version of article (4.5 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/uehlinger_fs_loretz_1998.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Uehlinger, C., 'Hanun von Gaza und seine Gottheiten auf Orthostatenreliefs Tiglatpilesers III.', in U. Hübner and E. A. Knauf (eds.), Kein Land für sich allein: Studien zum Kulturkontakt in Kanaan, Israel/Palästina und Ebirnâri für Manfred Weippert zum 65. Geburtstag (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 186), Fribourg and Göttingen: University Press Fribourg and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2002, 92-125. Download PDF version of article (4.4 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/uehlinger_fs_weippert_2002.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Van De Mieroop, M., 'Literature and political discourse in ancient Mesopotamia: Sargon II of Assyria and Sargon of Agade', in B. Böck et al. (eds.), Munuscula Mesopotamica. Festschrift für Johannes Renger (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 267), Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 1999, 327-339. Download PDF version of article (1.5 MB) [/saao/aebp/downloads/van_de_mieroop_fs_renger_1999.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]).

Van De Mieroop, M., 'A study in contrast: Sargon of Assyria and Rusa of Urartu', in S. C. Melville and A. L. Slotzky (eds.), Opening the Tablet Box: Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Benjamin R. Foster, Leiden: Brill, 2010, 417-434.

Vera Chamaza, G. W., Die Omnipotenz Aššurs: Entwicklungen in der Assur-Theologie unter den Sargoniden Sargon II., Sanherib, und Asarhaddon (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 295), Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2002.

Weaver, A. M., 'The 'Sin of Sargon' and Esarhaddon's reconception of Sennacherib: A study in divine will, human politics and Royal ideology', Iraq 66 (2004), 61-66. View article on JSTOR (requires subscription) [http://www.jstor.org/stable/4200560].

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