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Esarhaddon on his recalcitrant vassal (1)

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03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices



 		Keywords
garments
hegemony
Period
Neo-Assyrian Empire 		Channel
Neo-Assyrian texts

Text
Royal Inscriptions, Esarhaddon:
When he heard my royal message, which burns the enemy like a flame, panic (?) befell him, his heart was touched, his legs trembled; he took off his royal dress and clothed his body in sackcloth as befits a penitent sinner. He assumed the appearance of a lowly person and (thus) came to look like a slave.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Royal Inscriptions, Esarhaddon

Bibliography

Streck 1916, II 34Streck, Maximilian. Assurbanipal und die letzten assyrischen Könige bis zum Untergange Niniveh's. 2 Vols. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs 1916.
Vogelzang and Bekkum 1986, 270-271Vogelzang, M. E. and W. J. van Bekkum. “Meaning and Symbolism of Clothing in Ancient Near Eastern Texts.” In: Herman L. J. Vanstiphout (ed.). Scripta signa vocis. Studies about scripts, scriptures, scribes and languages in the Near East, presented to J.H. Hospers by his pupils, colleagues and friends. Groningen: Forsten 1986, 265-282.

Amar Annus


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