Building Activities in Assyria and Babylonia

Numerous texts describe Ashurbanipal's many building activities in Assyria and Babylonia. From the textual and archaeological records, this Assyrian king sponsored building programs in seven Assyrian and ten Babylonian cities: Agade, Arbela, Aššur, Babylon, Borsippa, Cutha, Dēr, Dūr-Kurigalzu, Ḫarrān, Mê-Turran, Milqʾia, Nineveh, Nippur, Sippar, Tarbiṣu, and Uruk. Full details about these building activities, as well as those carried out by Aššur-etel-ilāni and Sîn-šarra-iškun, will be given in the introduction of Part 2.^[174] For general studies, see in particular Frame, RIMB 2 pp. 194–195 and 261; Grayson, CAH² 3/2 pp. 155–158; Novotny, Eḫulḫul; and Novotny and Van Buylaere, Studies Oded pp. 215–219.

Notes

¹⁷⁴ Unlike Grayson and Novotny, RINAP 3/1–2, where the discussion of Sennacherib's building activities was split between two volumes, the study of the construction projects of Ashurbanipal and his successors will be treated in a single place.

Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers

Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers, 'Building Activities in Assyria and Babylonia', RINAP 5: The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal, Aššur-etel-ilāni, and Sîn-šarra-iškun, The RINAP/RINAP 5 Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2019 [http://oracc.org/rinap/rinap5/rinap51introduction/buildingactivitiesinassyriaandbabylonia/]

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