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Interest in women s history among Assyriologists has
increased markedly during the last few decades, but
there is still relatively little written regarding
Mesopotamian women. Studies concentrating on
Neo-Assyrian women are especially sparse. The
Neo-Assyrian Empire (934-610 BC) was one of the world
powers of its time, a huge centralist Empire with an
army of bureaucrats. Due to its vast cuneiform clay
tablet archives, it is also one of the
best-documented Mesopotamian Empires. This book,
originally an MA thesis at the University of
Helsinki, discusses how women acted as explicit and
implicit agents in their society. The main
contribution of this research lies in detailed
analysis of Neo-Assyrian textual sources. Women of
the Empire are discussed in three broad categories:
women of the palaces, women of the temples and other
women. This book should be of interest to all
interested in women s history and Mesopotamia. The
author hopes to illuminate their position in society
in moredetail in her PhD dissertation with the
working title Women and Power in the Neo-Assyrian
Empire.
