Erudite Savagery: Intertextuality in Ashurbanipal’s Account of the Siege of Babylon

IF 0.6 1区历史学 0 ARCHAEOLOGY

JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI:10.1086/724083

Eli Tadmor

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In 648 bce,1 a deadly civil war between two brothers—Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria (668–ca. 631) and Šamaš-šuma-ukīn, king of Babylonia (667–648)— was finally coming to an end.2 After a two-year siege, Ashurbanipal’s army conquered and sacked Babylon, the capital of his once-beloved sibling. The victorious Ashurbanipal did not have the satisfaction of capturing his “unfaithful brother” (aḫu lā kēnu)3 alive, and of executing him as slowly and horrifically as he doubtless would have wished.4 Yet Šamaš-šuma-ukīn did not

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公元前648年，1亚述国王阿什巴尼帕尔（668–约631年）和巴比伦国王Šamaš-šuma ukīn（667–648年）两兄弟之间的致命内战终于结束。2经过两年的围攻，阿什巴尼pal的军队征服并洗劫了他曾经深爱的兄弟的首都巴比伦。获胜的阿什巴尼帕尔并没有满足于捕捉到他“不忠的兄弟”（aḫu lākınu）3活着，并像他所希望的那样缓慢而可怕地处决了他。4然而Šamaš-šuma ukīn没有

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期刊介绍： Devoted to an examination of the civilizations of the Near East, the Journal of Near Eastern Studies has for 125 years published contributions from scholars of international reputation on the archaeology, art, history, languages, literatures, and religions of the Near East. Founded in 1884 as Hebraica, the journal was renamed twice over the course of the following century, each name change reflecting the growth and expansion of the fields covered by the publication. In 1895 it became the American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, and in 1942 it received its present designation, the Journal of Near Eastern Studies. From an original emphasis on Old Testament studies in the nineteenth century.