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Zenodo
2025
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| Առցանց հասանելիություն: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17773144 |
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Բովանդակություն:
- The Neo-Assyrian Empire (c. 911-612 BCE) stands as a monumental force in ancient Near Eastern history, renowned for its formidable military prowess and sophisticated administrative structures. This paper investigates the symbiotic relationship between overt violence and the strategic deployment of literacy as fundamental pillars of Neo-Assyrian imperial control. While Assyrian military campaigns, mass deportations, and brutal punitive actions instilled widespread terror and suppressed resistance, the less overt, yet equally potent, instrument of cuneiform literacy enabled the meticulous administration, ideological dissemination, and historical legitimation of this dominion. By analyzing royal inscriptions, administrative documents, and monumental art, this study argues that violence created the conditions for subjugation, while literacy rationalized, recorded, and perpetuated it. The paper explores how the deliberate spectacle of violence, coupled with a highly organized scribal apparatus, forged a unique architecture of dominion that underpinned the empire's extraordinary longevity and influence.