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Assyrian Government of Dependencies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

A. T. Olmstead
A. T. Olmstead
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University of Illinois
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The labor member of the Belgian ministry, M. van der Velde, has drawn a parallel between the Assyrian methods of deportation and those practiced by the Germans. An orientalist has developed this theme with chapter and verse citation. Whatever our sympathies in this present world catastrophe and however close we find the analogy, the episode has undoubtedly excited a certain amount of curiosity as to the methods used by the Assyrians in the government of their dependencies. To the more scientific student there must be great interest in a system which furnished the model to the Persians, to the Hellenistic rulers, to the Romans, and so to the modern systems of provincial government.

As in so many other phases of their civilization, the Assyrians built upon Babylonian foundations, and, as in so many other cases, the Assyrians profoundly modified what they took over. In truth, the Babylonian foundation was comparatively slight. At the beginning of Babylonian history we have the completely independent city state. As one conquered the other, there was no attempt at incorporation, and the patesi, who as vice regent of god on earth ruled the dependent state, was permitted complete autonomy, subject only to the payment of a small tribute and to certain acts which acknowledged foreign suzerainty.

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American Political Science Review , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , February 1918 , pp. 63 - 77
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1918

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1 The above sketch of the political development of Babylonia is based on detailed studies to appear in the American Journal of Semitic Languages.

2 An excellent translation in Budge-King, , Annals of the Kings of Assyria, 27ff.Google Scholar

3 Annals, I. 29ff. cf. Ashur nasir apal, Ann. I. 18ff with same formulae; I. 59ff; III. 30f.

4 Ann. I. 47f.; 65f.; III. 85f.; IV. 8f.; 32f.; V. 14ff.; I. 87f.

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14 Inscriptions best collected by Rost, Tiglat-Pileser; cf. Anspacher, Tiglath-Pileser.

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