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In À l’ombre des grandes puissances de Mésopotamie. Une histoire du Sūhu à l’époque néo-assyrienne, Philippe Clancier studies the Sūhu region of the Euphrates river, on the border of Assyria and Babylonia. He reconstructs its geography by presenting the fauna and flora, and by identifying sites and the layout of traffic routes. After going back to the 2nd millennium BC to explain the origin of its main dynasty, he highlights the partition of Sūhu into two main kingdoms before its reunification in the 8th century BC and its later conquest by Assyria. Thanks to an interdisciplinary approach that combines written sources, archaeological data and travellers’ accounts, Philippe Clancier offers for the first time a history of this region in the neo-Assyrian period.
Price: $334.00
Pages: 576
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
22 October 2020
ISBN: 9789004433274
Format: Hardcover
"The home of Bildad the Shuhite has received its first comprehensive study! Since 2005, C. has investigated the mid-Euphrates region from Khirbet ed-Diniye southwards to Hit, building on results of surveys and excavations in advance of the Haditha Dam. (...) C.’s detailed, clearly presented research reveals the role of a frontier significant for routes linking Mesopotamia to the west, from the island of Anah to Hamath."
- Alan Millard, in The Society of Old Testament Study Book List 2022.
- Alan Millard, in The Society of Old Testament Study Book List 2022.
Philippe Clancier, PhD (2005), maître de conférences at the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, has published a monograph on Mesopotamian libraries (2009) and several works on Mesopotamian history in the first millennium BC, including Les mondes hellénistiques du Nil à l’Indus (Hachette, 2017).