THE MIDDLE EUPHRATES IN THE FIRST MILLENNIUM B.C. AS AN INTERMEDIARY IN ECONOMIC CONTACTS BETWEEN MESOPOTAMIA AND THE WEST
THE MIDDLE EUPHRATES IN THE FIRST MILLENNIUM B.C. AS AN INTERMEDIARY IN ECONOMIC CONTACTS BETWEEN MESOPOTAMIA AND THE WEST

Summary/Abstract: The movements of the Aramaeans from the West towards Mesopotamia during the last centuries of the second and the beginning of the first millennium B.C. created new social and political relations, though, as has been recently suggested, in the north-west Mesopotamia this did not entail the total elimination of the structures created in the Middle Assyrian period. The new order in the region of the middle Euphrates valley appears for the first time in the inscriptions of Tiglath-Pileser I (1111–1077 B.C.). The only Aramaic territory in the middle Euphrates that is mentioned there as a target of Assyrian intervention is the land of Suhi.

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