By All Means, Ahuramazda: Help, Support, and Protect the King This presentation explores the variations in translation and embedded meanings manifest in the formula “By the … of Ahuramazda …”…
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Constructing Religious Identities in the Age of the Empires: Remarks on the “Imperial Religion(s)” of the Early Achaemenid Period Recent scholarship has shown that our understanding of the Achaemenid religious…
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Axial Anxieties: The Politics and Theology of Temple Destruction in the Achaemenid Empire and the Ancient Near East The so-called daivā inscription of Xerxes (XPh) is preserved in several duplicates…
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Channels and Methods of Diffusion of Administrative Models and Imperial Ideology in the Neo-Assyrian Empire The Assyrian empire is of great renown as a machine of conquest, but its most…
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Crafting under Divine Protection during the Middle Elamite Period During the last half of the second millennium BCE, the Middle Elamite (c 1600–1500–1000 BCE) kings built a number of temples…
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