Title: The Neo-Elamite Diplomatic Involvement in the Mesopotamian Borderlands
Abstract:Although some reports on foreign policy exist for Ancient Near Eastern states in the first millennium BC, studies illuminating on the diplomatic behaviour between an early Iranian state and the Mesopo...Although some reports on foreign policy exist for Ancient Near Eastern states in the first millennium BC, studies illuminating on the diplomatic behaviour between an early Iranian state and the Mesopotamian empires are scarce. Nevertheless, the Elamite texts and Akkadian royal correspondence does give regular hints on the efforts of the Elamite officials to optimize the international relations between Elam on the one hand and the Babylonian and Assyrian rulers on the other. Not surprisingly most of these actions took place in the borderlands between Elam and Assyria, where local Chaldean and Aramaean rulers contributed their share to the political and economical events of that time. This paper will therefore explore the role of the Elamite officials and borderland sheiks in the international diplomatic relations of the Neo-Elamite kings with the neighboring states Assyria and Babylonia (8th-6th century BC).Read More
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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