Studying the Army in Babylonia between the 6th and the 4th century BCE consists less of a "war study” than an essay on economic, social and institutional history as Cuneiform documentation originating from this period consist essentially of administrative and economic texts. The composition of the military which allowed the emergence and expansion of the Neo Babylonian empire (622 -539 BCE), is studied from the perspective of three social backgrounds which contributed to its establishment: The temples which provided the royal army with support troops, issued from their oblates, a category of individuals denied of freedom who were dedicated to the temple. Some of them were trained in handling weapons. The Babylonian traditional elites who pa...
From around 1500 B.C.E. a dynasty of Kassite kings took control in Babylon and unified southern Iraq...
International audienceContrary to the traditional view of oriental despots living in seclusion in th...
The Achaemenid Empire collapsed after the failure of King Darius III to stop the sweeping advance of...
Traiter de l'armée en Babylonie du VIe au IVe siècle av. n. è. consiste moins en une étude sur la gu...
The Babylonian cuneiform sources allow us to identify and study the flows of workers and goods from ...
The Babylonian cuneiform sources allow us to identify and study the flows of workers and goods from ...
Assyrians, Babylonians, Achaemenid Persians : the matrix of Empire. As a model the pluriethnic empir...
The new rise of Babylon is reported and its domination of the old world is described; when two dynas...
The passage of Babylonia from the Seleucid kings to the Arsacids is well attested in the cuneiform t...
The aim of this thesis is to analyse the daily life of soldiers during the Old Babylonian period (c....
International audienceDuring the 6th century BC, Babylonia was the centre of a network of waterways ...
International audienceThe measure of Marduk was an Old-Babylonian measure of capacity named after th...
International audienceAncient warfare is much more than a military affair: it is a total phenomenon,...
Water rights in Late Babylonia. From the end of the Seventh Century to the end of the Fourth Centu...
International audienceThe name and location of the 4,000-year-old city of Babylon are known to every...
From around 1500 B.C.E. a dynasty of Kassite kings took control in Babylon and unified southern Iraq...
International audienceContrary to the traditional view of oriental despots living in seclusion in th...
The Achaemenid Empire collapsed after the failure of King Darius III to stop the sweeping advance of...
Traiter de l'armée en Babylonie du VIe au IVe siècle av. n. è. consiste moins en une étude sur la gu...
The Babylonian cuneiform sources allow us to identify and study the flows of workers and goods from ...
The Babylonian cuneiform sources allow us to identify and study the flows of workers and goods from ...
Assyrians, Babylonians, Achaemenid Persians : the matrix of Empire. As a model the pluriethnic empir...
The new rise of Babylon is reported and its domination of the old world is described; when two dynas...
The passage of Babylonia from the Seleucid kings to the Arsacids is well attested in the cuneiform t...
The aim of this thesis is to analyse the daily life of soldiers during the Old Babylonian period (c....
International audienceDuring the 6th century BC, Babylonia was the centre of a network of waterways ...
International audienceThe measure of Marduk was an Old-Babylonian measure of capacity named after th...
International audienceAncient warfare is much more than a military affair: it is a total phenomenon,...
Water rights in Late Babylonia. From the end of the Seventh Century to the end of the Fourth Centu...
International audienceThe name and location of the 4,000-year-old city of Babylon are known to every...
From around 1500 B.C.E. a dynasty of Kassite kings took control in Babylon and unified southern Iraq...
International audienceContrary to the traditional view of oriental despots living in seclusion in th...
The Achaemenid Empire collapsed after the failure of King Darius III to stop the sweeping advance of...