Producing the Neo-Assyrian State

1. Producing the Neo-Assyrian State Quarry workers with tools. From Sennacherib’s Southwest Palace at Nineveh. From Reade 1999: Fig. 18.

2. The state as… ideology biopower spectacle bureaucracy (e.g., legal codes) materialization control over life and death text, image architecture prescriptive and prescribed lifeways ritual (e.g., placemaking

3. But archaeological detection? Map of Assyria, showing a detail with the location of Nineveh Sennacherib as crown prince. Khorsabad, c. 710 B.C.

4. Sennacherib’s forced migrations The state and the body As for Hezekiah, the Jew Who did not submit to my yoke, 46 of his strong, walled cities And the small cities of their environs, Which were without number, I besieged (and) captured by means of trampled earth-ramps And the bringing up of battering-rams The attack of footsoldiers, tunnels, breaches, As well as ladders. 200,150 people, great (and small), male and female, Horses, mules, Asses, camels, cattle and sheep, Which were without number, I brought out From the midst and counted them as spoil - Lines 56-69, Column III. Trans. Alexander Heidel Sennacherib’s Prism

5. Deportations: Facts and Figures From Oded 1979:20

6. Campaigns to Babylonia and the Southc. 704-702 B.C. Deportees and booty from Babylonian campaign. Slabs 7-9, Room XXVIII, Southwest Palace, Nineveh. From Russell 1991:Fig. 77

7. Campaigns to the Eastc. 702 B.C. Deportees Sennacherib’s second campaign to the east. Slabs 6-7, Room XLVI, Southwest Palace, Nineveh. From Russell 1991:Fig. 82.

8. Campaigns to the Eastc. 702 B.C. Deportees Sennacherib’s second campaign to the east. Slabs 1-2 east, Room XLIII, Southwest Palace, Nineveh. From Russell 1991:Fig. 90.

9. Campaigns to the westc. 701 B.C. Families being deported from Laschich during Sennacherib’s third campaign to the west. Detail, slabs 8-9, Room XXXVI, Southwest palace, Nineveh. From Reade 1999: Fig. 76.

10. Prescriptions? • Punishment for resistance • Dilute and weaken potential nodes of resistance • Military conscription and aggrandizement of the Neo-Assyrian army • A source of skilled craftsmen and common laborers

11. Ideology materialized And the people of Chaldea, the Arameans, the Manneans, (The people of) Que, Cilicia, Philistia, and Tyre, Who had not submitted to my yoke, I deported And made them carry the basket, And they molded bricks. - Lines 81-90, Column V. Trans. Alexander Heidel Floorplan of Sennacherib’s Palace at Nineveh. From Russell 1991: Fig. 92

12. Construction Scenes Transporting a colossus bull from a quarry. Slabs 63-64, Court VI, Southwest Palace, Nineveh. From Russell 1991: Fig. 54.

13. Quarrying Quarrying at Balatai Slab 66-67, Southwest Palace, Nineveh. From Reade 1999: Fig. 17

14. Transporting the Colossi Entrance of the colussus into Nineveh. Slabs 45-47. Court VI, Southwest Palace, Nineveh. From Russell 1991: Fig. 61.

15. The Spectacular State Sennacherib oversees quarrying. Slab 60. Court VI, Southwest Palace, Nineveh. From Russell 1991: Fig. 61.