‘Transitional Cases’, Allonymy, and the Use of Aramaic in the Early Neo-Assyrian Provincial Administration: The Example of Ilu-bāni/-ibni of Sūḫu
Keywords:
Allonymy, Aramaic, Early Neo-Assyrian Provincial Administration, early Neo-Assyrian periodAbstract
Scarce little is known of the organisation of annexed regions during the early Neo-Assyrian period (934-746 BC), or of the individual backgrounds of their governors. Reconstruction of the Assyrian provincial system and its high functionaries during this period is dependent upon the oft-fragmentary entries of the eponym lists (Millard 1994), the scant information provided by Neo-Assyrian royal inscriptions, a small surviving corpus of administrative documents, and other chance textual finds, usually inscribed objects from local officials.
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