A Companion to Assyria is a collection of original essays on ancient Assyria written by key
international scholars. These new scholarly contributions have substantially reshaped …

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the history and culture of the Parthian
Empire, which existed for almost 500 years from 247 BC to 224 AD. The Parthians were …

This volume is the product of several years of research, presentation, discussion, and writing
by a group of scholars on the subject of the Arsacid dynasty of Parthia and its interactions …

Graffiti are an often neglected but crucial witness to everyday life of ancient civilizations. The
Aramaic graffiti from Hatra (North Iraq) can make an invaluable contribution in this sense …

Unlike western Iran, where throughout the history we find highly standardized royal imagery,
the pictorial representations of Kushan, Sogdian, and later Bactrian rulers demonstrate an …

This chapter describes the historical/archaeological evidence for the various periods of post‐
imperial Assyria until the Sasanian conquest of the area between AD 226 and 241, which for …

Bringing together, for the first time, the relevant evidence from Ugarit to the High Roman
Empire, this study seeks to clarify the role of privately organized groups in Levantine …

Abstract· This article sets out to establish the cultural and cultic relationship between Hatra in
northern Mesopotamia and Hierapolis in the north of Syria. Starting point is the reproduction …

This paper deals with the overlooked French Expedition of the famous architect Charles
Fossey at the end of the 19th century at Hatra (Northern Iraq) using information of …

Historical NoteThe chronological table of rulers of Hatra includes an ambiguous person
named Wrwd mrya, who supposedly succeeded Nshryhb mrya. Is he the latter's younger …