THE ASSYRIAN DISTANZANGABEN IN RELATION TO THE REGNAL YEARS RECORDED IN THE ASSYRIAN KING LIST
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Several so-called Distanzangaben (lit. “designations of distance”), found in Assyrian inscriptions, record time spans between events (mainly building activities) of Assyrian rulers. Such chronological data have mostly been studied as entities (for purposes of absolute chronology), and only rarely with regard to their composition. While some of the Distanzangaben can be explained as mere summations of the regnal years recorded in the Assyrian King List, others remain enigmatic. The present article attempts to trace the composition of every Distanzangabe. For those compiled by Tiglath-pileser I and Esarhaddon, ideological purposes seem to be implied. The one compiled by Sennacherib sheds light on the chronology of Tiglath-pileser I's campaigns.
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Other publications referring to ancient texts about temple dedication, rededication, or commemoration in connection with chronological issues have usually done so as a side note to debates about broader chronological issues in the context of Distanzangaben, but the usefulness of these types of temple dedication texts and their mentions of elapsed years for discovering the correct years of ancient
“Other publications referring to ancient texts that relate to the dedication, rededication, or commemoration of a temple in connection with chronological issues have usually done so as a side note to debates about broader chronological issues in the context of Distanzangaben (long-period time spans), but the usefulness of these types of temple dedication texts and their mentions of elapsed years”
From Temple Dedication and Construction Texts of the Ancient Near East with Elapsed Years: Implications for Long Duration Chronologies (2024) · cites this paper as Mahieu 2021, pp. 67-85
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Assyrian Rulers of the Early First Millennium I (1114-859 BC)
Grayson, A. K. (1991) · doi:10.3138/9781442671089 · Cited by 175 · see citing works
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- Mahieu, B.
- Corresponding author
- Mahieu, Bieke
- Venue
- Iraq
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2021-09-13
- Volume
- 83
- Pages
- 67-85
- ISSN
- 0021-0889 (ISSN-L)
- 2053-4744
- OpenAlex
- W3199114159
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- 1
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- 1
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1
- FWCI
- 1.23
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Iraq (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology › Ancient Near East History
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Biblical Studies and Interpretation
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology › Ancient Egypt and Archaeology
- Keywords
- regnal years, Assyrian chronology, Esarhaddon, Sennacherib, construction activity, absolute chronology, Assyrian inscriptions
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